Russ,

“Context Menu”, thank you so much.  That was the magic word that triggers the right click menu.  I have been trying to say “right click” each time an e-mail or document is highlighted and this did not work. 

It just goes to show, if you know the right words to say, it makes things a lot easier.

Speaking on the subject “Microsoft Outlook”, I have 3 web based email accounts but I have not even setup my “Microsoft Outlook” yet.

What do you actually use Microsoft Outlook for?  Is there a different use for this program that has an advantage over the web based email clients?

Russ,

When I am in newsgroups or e-mails, normally you could right click any of the messages and a list of selections would be shown for you to choose.

What is the normal command you would say in speech recognition to make this happen?  Or if there is not one, could you show me the macro code to make this happen please?

Andy T, to open a selected newsgroup item, you can probably just say "press Enter." This technique should work in just about any program where you have an item selected and you want to open it: icons on the desktop or in Windows Explorer, a selected email message in your email program, and so on. Try it out in a number of places and see how it works for you.

Oh my God!  All this time I have been saying “Show Numbers” and selected the number I wanted to open an e-mail or any other item and it turns out that all I had to do was say the simple word “Enter”.  All this time, I did not know that!

Thank you very much Russ.

I believe I have a pretty comprehensive set of commands that I use but obviously someone like yourself has uses for macros for other types of commands to do all sorts of things within your operating system.

Can you give me some sort of idea what you use some of yours to do and how you set them out?

andy t

andy t wrote: Yep, you were absolutely right Marty.  I trained a completely new user profile under another name and it works perfectly now, even the dreaded “3” in the mouse grid.

What should I do with the old user profile?  Should I delete it or something?

What I have noticed is that the new user profile still works with the old macros from the old user profile, is that correct?  In other words, I did not have to transfer my macros to the new user profile. Also, do I still need to go through all the procedure again of “Train From Text”? (And the rainbow passage again?) And also “add from file”?   My speech recognition seems to be working fine with the new user profile.

I have noticed one thing with the new user profile, the record back of my voice when I correct an incorrect spelling, is very low, could you just run that one by me again please and how I turn the sound up?

The other thing I have noticed with the new user profile now is, when I say “new paragraph” it only goes down one line and not two like it used to with my old user profile.  I noticed somewhere you have produced a macro somewhere in this website to correct this.  I will try that, because when I say “new line”, I only want the cursor to go down once, and when I say “new paragraph”, I want the cursor to go down twice.  This is what used to happen in my old user profile but not anymore.  There might be a way even to correct it within word 2007 on the “page layout” and “paragraph” section.

The reason your quotes are not being recognized is because you are using [QUOTE/] to end a quote instead of

. The forward slash must Be before the word quote, not after.[/QUOTE]

Oops!  Thanking you for correcting me Marty, I made a right hash of that, didn’t I?

I Suspect  You May Have A Corrupted Speech User Profile.  This Can Be Caused By Move The Word You Have Added/Edited/Corrected.  To See If This Is What Is Causing Problems With Your Mouse Great Performance, I Suggest You Quickly Create A New User Training Profile With A Name That Different From The One You Have Been Using.   To Do This, Right Click The Microphone Icon On The Speech Bar.  Choose Configuration.  Then Click On Open Speech Recognition Control Panel.

Yep, you were absolutely right Marty.  I trained a completely new user profile under another name and it works perfectly now, even the dreaded “3” in the mouse grid.

What should I do with the old user profile?  Should I delete it or something?

What I have noticed is that the new user profile still works with the old macros from the old user profile, is that correct?  In other words, I did not have to transfer my macros to the new user profile.

Also, do I still need to go through all the procedure again of “Train From Text”? (And the rainbow passage again?) And also “add from file”?

My speech recognition seems to be working fine with the new user profile.

I have noticed one thing with the new user profile, the record back of my voice when I correct an incorrect spelling, is very low, could you just run that one by me again please and how I turn the sound up?

The other thing I have noticed with the new user profile now is, when I say “new paragraph” it only goes down one line and not two like it used to with my old user profile.  I noticed somewhere you have produced a macro somewhere in this website to correct this.  I will try that, because when I say “new line”, I only want the cursor to go down once, and when I say “new paragraph”, I want the cursor to go down twice.  This is what used to happen in my old user profile but not anymore.  There might be a way even to correct it within word 2007 on the “page layout” and “paragraph” section.

Russ,

Regarding Your Problem With Microsoft Newsgroups, It Sounds As If You’re Using A Particular Program To Read Newsgroups. The Macro Code That You Would Use To Simulate All Four Arrow Key Movements Are: <Sendkeys>{Right}</Sendkeys> <Sendkeys>{Left}</Sendkeys> <Sendkeys>{Up}</Sendkeys> <Sendkeys>{Down}</Sendkeys> So A Macro That Simply Sends The”Right” Key Should Open A Selected Folder In The Program.

That worked a treat, works perfectly now for that function in Microsoft Newsgroups.

Thanks for the tip and the URL for the Yahoo Speech Groups.  I already have this address somewhere, but I believe you need to know a thing or two about making macros first before entering this domain, am I right?

There is one other thing I cannot fathom out Russ.  When I am in Microsoft newsgroups and I have highlighted the message I want to see, can you give me a macro that will open that message for me?

I must point out, because of my disability, I use “Double Click” not “Single Click”.  So to be clear, to open up the message I want to see, I would have to say “Double Click” in order to open it.

How would I incorporate that command with a macro?

Marty, just to let you know, I have now purchased the “Sennheiser ME3 Headset” from Graham.  I have not had a chance to use it yet, but will do in the very near future.  Graham has advised me to put the USB end into a completely different port to that of my Buddy DesktopMic.  Will that microphone automatically be picked up and I just choose that one if I want to change from the “Buddy DesktopMic”?

I also do not think it will be long now before I can scrape enough penny’s together to get the mother of all microphones, the Sennheiser MD431 ll and all the accessories I need that come with it.  I will be getting this from Graham also as I know he will be getting it from you in the long run.

Cheers for all the advice from both of you.

andy t