MS Word 2013 stops working with The Dragon Naturally Speaking version 12

Anonymous
2012-12-11T09:57:47+00:00

Have upgraded from Windows 7 to Windws 8 and have thereafter installed the Office 2013 trial version on my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop. The Dragon Naturally Speaking version 12 works with MS Outlook as well as MS Excel however whenever I attempt to open MS Word i get a response Microsoft Word has stopped working: A problem caused te program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. Please help me or inform me how long shall it take to provide the solution.

Apurva

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Anonymous
2012-12-12T09:22:24+00:00

Hi Apurva,

Thanks for posting in Microsoft Community.

I shall try to assist you in related to your Word issue.

Verify if the ‘Dragon naturally speaking’ (Netspeak) add-in is enabled in Word application?

Try running the Word application as administrator by following the steps below

Right click on Word application and click ‘Run as admin’.

And follow the steps below to enable naturally speaking (add-in) in Word and check if it works fine.

Click on File, Options, Add-ins, and Click on ‘GO’ beside Manage – COM Add-ins and check the add-in option next to Netspeak and click OK

I hope this helps. If you need any further information, you can always reply and I’ll be happy to help you.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-08T13:47:39+00:00

    Dear Guys,

    Fact is "Dragon 12 will not work with Word 2013" - Great if someone can find a solution...

    Workaround is

    1. Upgrade to 12.5 from 12. Its free for Licensed user of Dragon
    2. Install word 2010 along with word 2013... Yes they can coexist and dragon works flawlessly on 2010.

    Tried both the options and both works just great...

    Hope this helps

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-29T21:54:27+00:00

    I am running windows 8.1 on Lenovo ultra book Intel core i7 CPU

    I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5

    Everything was working fine until I got a message suggesting that I inactivate the Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-in because it was not working.  Word 2013 stopped working.  I reactivated the add-in as you suggested.  Everything works fine until I close the document and then the Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-in reverts to inactive.  How do I prevent it from moving from active to inactive every time I finish with a document?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T17:23:20+00:00

    I have experienced similar issues as posted above.  I found that reinstalling office and rebuilding the OS from scratch, followed by carefully running Dragon prior to starting the office applications all helped in minimizing the compatibility issues (even after upgrading to 12.5).

    I found that during dictation, the cursor would flash all the text would highlight and then over a period of time, cursor movement within the application would become painfully slow. this was of course regardless of the speed of your system .

    After some research, I thought maybe the cursor animation that is part of office 2013 was the culprit. there is no obvious way of disabling this unless of course you Google it and find the appropriate registry key update .

     I'm happy to report that I have gone ahead and disabled cursor animation and have improved the dictation performance and stability within office 2013 dramatically.

     I hope this helps – I will refrain from putting any links within this post as I'm sure everyone can just Google ( disable cursor animation in office 2013 ).

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