Dosent work... i get to

Click on the little downward-pointing triangle at the bottom
right corner of the Language toolbar, and make sure the "Speak Text" option
is checked.

there is no option... just help, settings, restore defaults....

As parent says, why is it so hard!

Hi, 6th time lucky. My guess is that you do not have the Alternative
User Input features installed.

6th time lucky wrote:

Dosent work... i get to


Click on the little downward-pointing triangle at the bottom
right corner of the Language toolbar, and make sure the "Speak Text" option
is checked.


there is no option... just help, settings, restore defaults....

As parent says, why is it so hard!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Hi, 6th time lucky. My guess is that you do not have the Alternative
User Input features installed.

Hmm, ok, ta. It seems quite counter-intuative to install alternative user
input freatures, for an *output* (go microsoft!). I have googled for that
that and found very little except for some updates for it. However i also
found during this search that text-to-speech is a "hidden" office feature,
which i should install from the CD.

Now the problem is i dont have access to the CD. No i havnt pirated it, i
have a corporate install c/o the university... so i would have to deal with
helpdesk, job numbers, etc, just so i can see if it will work...

you would think there would be somewhere i could just download it from. (it
wasnt until i found the complete office service pack files that i updated my
office from RTM to SP3), office update was no help.

ugh.. too hard... (but thanks anyway)

Correct, the text-to-speech feature is not installed automatically in a
typical installation. You have to choose a custom installation, and
select the text-to-speech feature in... Alternative User Input.

6th time lucky wrote:

Hmm, ok, ta. It seems quite counter-intuative to install alternative user
input freatures, for an *output* (go microsoft!). I have googled for that
that and found very little except for some updates for it. However i also
found during this search that text-to-speech is a "hidden" office feature,
which i should install from the CD.

Now the problem is i dont have access to the CD. No i havnt pirated it, i
have a corporate install c/o the university... so i would have to deal with
helpdesk, job numbers, etc, just so i can see if it will work...

you would think there would be somewhere i could just download it from. (it
wasnt until i found the complete office service pack files that i updated my
office from RTM to SP3), office update was no help.

ugh.. too hard... (but thanks anyway)