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Information about speech recognition in Office

Applies to: Microsoft Office Access 2003, Excel 2003, FrontPage 2003, Outlook 2003, PowerPoint 2003, Publisher 2003, Word 2003

Applies to
2003 version of the following Microsoft Office programs: Access 2003, Excel 2003, FrontPage® 2003, Outlook® 2003, Publisher 2003, PowerPoint® 2003, and Word 2003 2002 version of the following Microsoft Office XP programs: Access 2002, Excel 2002, FrontPage® 2002, Outlook® 2002, Publisher 2002, PowerPoint® 2002, and Word 2002

Applies to

2003 version of the following Microsoft Office programs: Access 2003, Excel 2003,
FrontPage® 2003, Outlook® 2003, Publisher 2003, PowerPoint® 2003, and Word 2003

2002 version of the following Microsoft Office XP programs: Access 2002, Excel 2002,
FrontPage® 2002, Outlook® 2002, Publisher 2002, PowerPoint® 2002, and Word 2002

This feature is available in the Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and in the Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office XP.

You can use speech recognition to dictate text into any Office program. You can also select menu, toolbar, dialog box (U.S. English only), and task pane (U.S. English only) items by using your voice.

For more information about speech recognition, see Help in your Office program.