Windows Speech Recognition not working in Excel 2007

Vista Small business (up to date)
Excel 2007

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.

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

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Mark L. Ferguson

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<> wrote in message
news:...
> Vista Small business (up to date)
> Excel 2007
>
> 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.
>

Mark,

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

"Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:

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

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.


<> wrote in message
news:...
> Mark,
>
> Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:
>
>>Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like
>>'number' or 'formula'

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


"AlexB" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
>
> <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Mark,
>>
>> Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?
>>
>> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:
>>
>>>Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like
>>>'number' or 'formula'
>

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" <> 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.
>
>
><> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> Mark,
>>
>> Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?
>>
>> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:
>>
>>>Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like
>>>'number' or 'formula'

Definitely not for the monkeys.

"Spanky deMonkey" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I don't think you could even use Excel if you wanted to. Very complicated.
>Just FYI.
>
>
> "AlexB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?
>>>
>>> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like
>>>>'number' or 'formula'
>>
>

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.


<> wrote in message
news:...
> 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" <> 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.
>>
>>
>><> wrote in message
>>news:. ..
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> Do you mean that I should say "number 1000" or "Text Account Number?
>>>
>>> "Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Haven't got Excel 2007, but I would guess it wants a 'data type' like
>>>>'number' or 'formula'