I am trying to get dictation to work correctly in Microsoft Word. It is not responding to commands like "new paragraph" or "new line". All of the text ends up in the same paragraph. Dictation works fine in Pages and Gmail, but not in Word.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance...
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion
Try to word the "New Paragraph" line differently.
Are you sure you're speaking clearly enough?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4146342
Check the answer to this question. "New Line" would be the correct term to start a new line.
I have tried multiple ways with the same result. It doesn't type the words "new paragraph" or "new line", but it never creates a new line or paragraph. Once I finish the dictation and click "Done", all the text appears in the same paragraph regardless of how many "new paragraph" commands I spoke.''
Strange... it works perfectly in Pages and Gmail, so I know it is not a pronunciation or syntax issue.
In my test with Microsoft 2008 and 2011, new line and new paragraph do not seem to work with ML. Both new line and new paragraph do indeed work as defined in Pages.
Same here... "new line" doesn't work in Word 11 any more than "new paragraph".
To add to the mystery, punctuation commands like "comma" "period" and "exclamation point" work perfectly in Word. Ugh...
tarheeljim wrote:
Same here... "new line" doesn't work in Word 11 any more than "new paragraph".
To add to the mystery, punctuation commands like "comma" "period" and "exclamation point" work perfectly in Word. Ugh...
I have the same experience. The new paragraph and new line commands do not appear to work in Microsoft word running under Mountain lion.
sigh. thats really lame. i installed ML for my mom almost explicitly for the benefit of saving her from having to type unnecessarily since she has arthritis. and her job requires her to use word.
you'd really think that when apple adds a text-entry feature that is supposed to work "anywhere you can type", they'd at least make sure it at least works in the the single most commonly used word processing tool.
A month has gone by since the last post with no apparent resolution in sight.
I have the same problem with "new paragraph" and "new line" not working with Dictation while in MS Word 2011. However it works fine with MS Outlook 2011 from the same Office Suite. And it works just fine creating this message as well.
Has anyone made any progress on this problem?
I have this same problem, although I am using Word 2008. Regardless, it seems there is a compatibility issue with Word and Dictation. Come on Apple, this is very un-Apple-esq!
Outlook 2011 does not work for me.
Same experience here. Neither Word nor Outlook 2011 will insert a "new paragraph" or "new line."
"New paragraph" and "New line" do not appear to work in Word 2011 either on my MacBook Air. However, I just downloaded Pages and both commands works perfectly. Therefore, I will dictate in Pages and when necessary copy and paste into Microsoft Word.
likewise you could dictate into text edit and copy and paste from there as well (and not have to buy a separate piece of software in the process). but the appeal of this feature was supposed to make text input easier, and adding a layer of indirection through an extra piece of software kinda defeats that. especially for less computer savvy people.
my mom for quite some time couldn't even fully comprehend the idea of multitasking and background windows. she would open and close applications as she needed them, one at a time.
Same here. I'm using office 2013. It is hard to believe, That there is still no solution for that problem. Parallels desktop and office 2013 lets you dictate, Though there is still no way to get the new line or new paragraph
command to get to work in word or outlook. Do you think this isn't a apple issue or a Microsoft issue? On Windows in the ordinary editor the commands work well.
I actually changed to mac for this killerfeature and i really need it. Now it does not work in the most common office app..
Hi folks,
I've sunk some time into this one today, and I think I've figured out the problem. I'm running Mac 10.9.2, MS Word 2011 (14.3.9). I'm trying to make a bulleted list, and I want to dictate it. However, "new line" only inserts a new line in MS Word and does not create a new bullet. The enter key makes a new line with a new bullet, but the dictation command "new line" doesn't make a new bullet (only a new line under the same bullet).
This is just a guess, but I think Microsoft Word uses the input from the keyboard directly, instead of using the characters the keyboard types. The end of line character that Mavericks Dictation inserts seems to be the same as what the Return key types (a Unix style LF (a.k.a. unicode 000a or /n)), but Microsoft Word doesn't behave the same when you insert 000a via Mac unicode input. I suspect that Word waits for the keyboard entry to generate the XML tags for the new list item. By the way, TextEdit lists don't work with Mavericks Dictation either. Pages '09 does have a robust response to both dictation and unicode 000A insertion, so you can dictate bulleted lists in Pages.
Summary: Word isn't programmed to use "new line" from Mavericks Dictation for editing bulleted lists or outlines. "new line" does create a new line in Word if you're just writing normal text.
How do I get dictation to work correctly in Microsoft Word 2011?
