Open Word, and click the 'Tools' menu, then 'Speech'.

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"andy t" <andyt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Please can a MVP help me, I have just got the new Windows Vista, complete
> with the speech recognition program. I should explain that I am disabled
> and
> cannot use my hands. I am so pleased at the progress made on speech
> recognition.
>
> However, I have found that dictation or text to speech, works really well
> in
> wordpad and notepad, but I can't seem to get it to work with other text
> input
> programmes such as Windows word, Windows works word processor or other non
> Windows Programmes such as Google Earth. When I try to dictate in these
> programmes, all speech recognition can do is bring up commands, and my use
> of
> dictation or text to speech is no more.
>
> I am sure that it is a configuration problem and an easy solution for you
> experts out there, I sure would like an answer to this, it would be much
> appreciated if any MVP's could help me??. For a person like me, it would
> be
> like a dream come true.
>
> Thanking you in advance
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> andy t