Thanks for the reply Mark,

I have the new Windows Vista Home Premium and I don't seem to have MS word,
instead I have MS "Works word processor" which seems to have taken it's
place. I went to this, clicked on the " tools menu" like you said, but there
was no "speech" on this menu. As I said, Dictation works Great on wordpad and
notepad, but not on Windows works word processor. It seems like MS has
Favoured "Wordpad" for dictating but Wordpad has'nt Got things like "spell
check" ," grammar and punctuation" or "Thesaurus" . there must be a way to
do this, have you any other ideas??
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andy t


"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> 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
>