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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
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Dragon’s site says this has been resolved with v12.5: http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a\_id/15089/kw/word%202013
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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I have problems with MS Word 2013 and Dragon Naturally Speaking 14 PI. I get error when I open Word doc: (Dictation is not possible or is restricted for the current window due to the Dragon add-in for MS word not being loaded).
I tried what you said above and but problems persist. I did quick repair of Dragon and was able to dictate but not have full Dragon functioning In Word so I did which he said again and now Dragon won't even dictate words. Also when I did a Save As dictation didn't work either in the Saved As window. Please help.
Hi,
To get a better assistance with your concern, we suggest contacting the app developer.
Regards.