Hi Dan,
As J.R. mentioned, the Dictation feature of Office was removed from Office 2007. It belongs to the Speech team of Windows.
Unfortunately, possibly due to time, they have focused their efforts on providing this capability in Windows Vista and have not
updated the capability in Windows XP (the implementation in Windows XP leaves a lot of 'holes' and isn't something I'd suggest
using). There are 3rd party products that will work and have the advantage of not being limited, usually to certain apps. One of
the long time available ones is Dragon from
http://nuance.com .
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"danonwheels" wrote in message
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i am disabled and need to use speech recognition to produce documents any help appreciated
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MS Office System Products MVP
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