Microsoft KB Archive/284894

= WD2002: Voice Commands &quot;Show&quot; and &quot;Show Hide&quot; Don't Work in Word =

Article ID: 284894

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q284894





SYMPTOMS
You are unable to use the voice commands &quot;show&quot; and &quot;show hide&quot; to click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar.



CAUSE
Voice Command mode is not supported for use with the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, use the mouse to click the Show/Hide button on the Standard toolbar.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
Speech recognition is not designed for completely hands-free operation; you will get the best results if you use a combination of your voice and the mouse or keyboard.

You can use speech recognition to dictate text into any Office program. In Voice Command mode, you can select menu, toolbar, dialog box (U.S. English only), and task pane (U.S. English only) items by simply saying their names. This means that you can give voice commands for just about anything you can read in an Office program.

For example, to change font format, you can say &quot;font&quot; to open the Font box on the Formatting toolbar, and then say a font name. Or to format selected text, say &quot;bold&quot; or &quot;underline.&quot;

Most toolbar buttons do respond to voice commands when you say the name of the toolbar button. If you don't know the name, rest the mouse pointer on the button to display a ScreenTip that shows you the name you can say. For example, the ScreenTip for the Save button is &quot;Save.&quot; Say &quot;save&quot; to open the Save dialog box.

Additional query words: kbspeech

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB284894

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