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Windows Speech Recognition is excellent!! That said, I can not get it to work with Excel 2007 when

in Vista . In contrast, I have Excel 2007 on an XP machine and the Dragon Naturally Speaking works

as expected.



When in Excel, in a cell, if I say i.e. 1000 I get the question "What did you say?"

If I say "Account number" it asks "What did you say?"



If I use Notepad, Word, what ever; Windows Speech Recognition gets it correct!!



What am I obviously missing when using Excel?



I realize that answer is probably stupidly easy.



Any help appreciated!!



BTW, I have rebooted etc.


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Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like

'number' or 'formula'



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<EagleOne@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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Mark,



Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?



"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:

Listen I do not have Excel, I used to work with it briefly in XP but my

hunch is that Mark meant you should define the column's type according to

known types in Excel. Thus if you have a column the type of which is

undefined then Vista will not know what you are talking about although it

may be filled with numbers. the name of your column may be C1 or something.



I don't even remember if column types are settable in Excel. It is possible

that you can get by just by naming columns conventionally, according to

accounting principles.





<EagleOne@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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I don't think you could even use Excel if you wanted to. Very complicated.

Just FYI.





"AlexB" <alexb@comcast.net>wrote in message

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Alex,



I did experiment with formatting the cells as either text or numbers. That was not the answer.



What I did do is select a Speech Recognition option worded something like "Use speech recognition in

all applications." Then it started to work in Excel.



That said, it is not very efficient, meaning, If I say 1000 it responds:

1) 1000

2) 1,000

3) one thousand



Then I must say:

"One" then

"OK" then

"Enter"



Works but .....



With Dragon Naturally Speaking on XP, I can say "1000" then "Enter" two steps not the four steps

required in Vista.



Thanks!



"AlexB" <alexb@comcast.net>wrote:

Definitely not for the monkeys.



"Spanky deMonkey" <spanky@deMonkee.com>wrote in message

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Yep, I've heard people here saying the same thing: Dragon is more user

friendlier in terms of the manual dexterity but Vista's Speech Recognition

is much superior in quality.



I guess this is as far as you can go. Sorry.





<EagleOne@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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