MS Excel Speech Recognition turns on by itself

Question

When I'm in Excel I've noticed my left and right arrow keys don't work when I'm inputting information (nothing happens when I push them) and my speech recognition turns itself on. I've unchecked the Tools/Speech/Speech Recognition menu and in a little while the programs starts to act like its trying to make out the words. When I check again, Speech Recognition is checked....all by itself. Anyone have similar experiences and nows how to turn it off.

tks,

Mary G · Answer

From Help: Turning the microphone on or off turns speech recognition on or off. On the Language bar, click Microphone . Notes You can turn the microphone off by saying, 'microphone.' Remember to turn the microphone off when you are not using speech recognition. Speech recognition will continue to process sounds until the microphone is turned off. You can unplug or turn off the mike, too, or simply uninstall speech recognition if you don't need it. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326526

SidBord · Answer

Hey, you've touched on something I've been wondering about. I got the impression that Speech Recognition is a feature you have to buy and install separately. Does it come with Office 2003 or Win XP Pro? Incidentally, I tried out the feature that lets you write an Excel macro that talks to you.
Amazing! I love it, but don't know what to do with it.

khefron · Answer

My speech recognition came with MS OFFICE Professional, I'm not sure about other versions.

Mary G · Answer

It comes with Office 2003, but is not installed by default. You have to use Add/remove programs to add it. This is true of hundreds of features that come with Office. Only the basic stuff is preinstalled to Run From my Computer.

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MS Excel Speech Recognition turns on by itself

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