It could be my fault for the way I explain things.

But for speech recognition, you need to install *no* further software as it
really is built-in to WinXP.

All I can advise is for you to open the Windows Xp Help Center ("Help and
Support" on your Start Menu), type in to the Help Search Box the words :
"Text Services" and press on the green arrow next to it to start the
search.

In the returned results in the results pane below, you need to look at the
following two items :

"Show the Language Bar"

"Turn Text Services on or off"


....I hope this helps.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"softandmicroey" wrote in message
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On Jun 9, 7:08 pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
Sorry, it may not have been clear in my latest post, how to make sure
that
the "Advanced Text Services" function is activated (enabled).

To turn on Advanced Text Services" if it not been turned on already.

Open the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, click on the
"Languages" tab (across the top), click on the "Details" button to open
"Text Services and Input Languages" and under the Advanced" tab, make
sure
the check-box named "Turn off advanced text services" is *not* checked -
if it is checked - uncheck it...

Above this option you will also find the feature - "Extend support of
advanced text services to all programs" - enable it by checkmarking the
box
of that name.
(You may have to restart your computer at this point) This will enable
functions like dictation and the reading of text to many other word
processing applications you may have.

Then make sure you can see the Language Bar is present on your TaskBar
(it
should appear at the left of the "System Tray" which is, in turn, next to
the TaskBar clock in the corner).

*NB You can open the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialogue box
directly by copying / pasting the following line into the "Run" box on
the
Start Menu :

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL input.dll

From there you can both make sure "Advanced Text Services" function is
enabled ("Advanced" tab), and also show the "Language Bar" on the desktop
(press the "Language Bar" button).

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)

ty for your patience. I have tried to fully follow your instructions,
however after I rebooted as prompted the only thing I recognize as
language bar related that appeared on the desktop was a "?" symbol on
the taskbar which when clicked on identified itself as 'language bar
help' I have since opened M$ Word only to find it would not show any
other language bar symbols on the task bar. I have rebooted again an
additional time just to be on the safe side, and now find that the "?"
symbol is gone. Additionally when I right click on the task bar there
is no language bar option among the tool bars to chose from, either
checked or unchecked. This change further puzzles me.