[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Kathy,

The MS text to speech feature was not included in Word in prior versions. The Windows narrator could be used, but not as
effectively.

Basically, if you want the Office provided text to speech feature back you'll basically need to use a workaround approach as in
Graham's article (most of it is cut and paste) unless someone has a copy of a template you can use with that macro already included
in it
The use of Tools=References is in the Word VBA editor (Alt+F11), not in the regular Word tools menu.

On the license acceptance - usually comes from not being logged in as Administrator (or not using 'run as Administrator' in Vista).
The acceptance otherwise doesn't get written to the registry.

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"Kathy O." wrote in message ...
Why am I having to do all of this? Office 2002/2003 --workd perfectly in the
text to speech and I used it in Word daily -- Daily! I am not confusing Word
with Excel -- although I do use that feature in Excel too, but I desperately
use it and am so used to using it in Word... I don't see any thing for
Reference under Tools in Office 2003 -- when I installed it here on the
laptop running Vista Home Premium -- I am really sorry I did all this --
should have shopped around to find someone who would sell me a computer still
using XP Professional. I really don't like Vista -- it doesn't even work
with its own product line Microsoft I fear is heading toward the demise
similar to IBM of the 80's when they introduced new SNA's that no one had or
understood. Within months their computers ended up as dust collectors on
Radio shack shelves across the country; I think Vista is your waterloo and
not to have a seamless integration with older versions of Microsoft Office is
not only a shame it is an ethical crime -- shame on Bill Gates and Microsoft

I want my text to speech; I don't want to buy office 2007, 2008, 2010 or
2240! I want to us my Office 2003 -- I am still discovering features of 2003
-- and it serves my purposes -- but not running Windows Vista. I also don't
want to have to continually type in I accept -- to a product I have
registered; am a licensed user of... it's just so annoying!

'Please give me my text to speech back in Word 2003! without having to write
a bunch of gobbly gook in VBA
Kathy O.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*