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
    2013-05-16T18:52:51+00:00

    That's computing for you I've found. To be fair, DNS is a very complex program! Best of luck.

    Steve

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-16T18:06:13+00:00

    Thank you for your comments, Steve! Hard to believe this is all still a problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-16T17:32:56+00:00

    Bad luck, eh? These problems are the plague of the PC. I find that Office 365 works well with DNS 12.5. There is a slight glitch when dictating into Outlook, much as before, the screen tends to "flash" a little when the dictation begins (if I remember).

    You don't need 64gb RAM at all for DNS. I find 16gb is optimum. A thought I had was to upgrade to Win* once the new service pack becomes available (you might as well wait). Otherwise, I can sympathise as these things are so frustrating and time consuming.

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