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To resume dictation, please use the keyboard shortcut (ALT + `) or press the Mic icon in the floating dictation menu.

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Saying “add comment” by itself will create a blank comment box that can be manually typed into.

Saying “add comment look at this tomorrow” will insert a new comment with the text “Look at this tomorrow” inside it.

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Try phrases like “bold last word” or “underline last sentence.”.

An example would be dictating “review by tomorrow at 5PM”, then saying “bold tomorrow” which would leave you with “review by tomorrow at 5PM.”

You can bold, italicize, underline, or strikethrough a word or phrase.

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An example of using would be dictating “what a super nice day” and then saying “delete super.” You would then be left with the phrase “what a nice day.”.

Saying “delete that” removes the last spoken utterance.

Saying “delete” by itself removes the last word or punctuation before the cursor.

How to dictate edits in Microsoft Word and Outlook undo Left/open parentheses right/close parentheses How to dictate punctuation in Microsoft Word and Outlook Phrase(s)īegin/open single quote end/close single quote Here are some of the things you can say (you can find more in Microsoft Help). What can you say?Īs with all dictation programs sometimes you want to give the system commands for things like punctuation and formatting. While writing documents or an email the user simply needs to press the Dictate button on the top bar At the time of writing dictation exists in Microsoft Word for writing documents and Microsoft Outlook for writing emails. Many of the Microsoft products now integrate with their cloud voice recognition software and we have seen that has started to have new uses like subtitles in PowerPoint. However, having recently retried the services, we have found that actually it performs very well considering there is no training required. Microsoft tried a few years ago to implement dictation services into Word and in my opinion it wasn’t reliable enough for most business purposes. Learn: How to use the dictation services while writing documents and emails App/System: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook

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