Microsoft KB Archive/285529

= PPT2002: How to Use Voice Commands to Select and Move Shapes =

Article ID: 285529

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285529



SUMMARY
Speech recognition is a feature in Microsoft Office that allows you to dictate text into any Microsoft Office program. With speech recognition, you can use your voice to select menu, toolbar, and dialog box items. This article tells you how to use voice commands to select move shapes in a PowerPoint presentation.



MORE INFORMATION
The Voice Command feature of the Language bar can be used to select any item on the AutoShapes toolbar in a PowerPoint presentation. When you use a voice command to select an item on the AutoShapes toolbar while you edit text in a PowerPoint slide, text-editing mode is stopped and the toolbar command runs. This feature can be used to select and to move objects on the slide.

When you use a voice command to select a shape from the AutoShapes toolbar, the mouse pointer changes to the object insertion mode. You can then use voice commands to cycle through the objects on the slide, and to reposition the selected objects.

The following example illustrates this feature:

NOTE: You must have Speech installed and configured on your computer.
 * 1) Start Microsoft PowerPoint 2002.

This will open a new blank presentation.
 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Speech.

The Language bar appears.
 * 1) On the Language bar, click Microphone.
 * 2) Click to place the insertion point in the Click to add title box.
 * 3) Type PowerPoint.
 * 4) Say &quot;Voice command.&quot;
 * 5) Say &quot;Rectangle.&quot;

The mouse pointer changes from a text insertion pointer to an object insertion cross.
 * 1) Say &quot;Tab.&quot;

The Click to add subtitle box is selected.
 * 1) Say &quot;Right,&quot; and then say &quot;Up.&quot;

The Click to add subtitle box moves to the right, and then moves up in single grid increments.

