Voice Dictation Commands (for Editing and Formatting) in Office 365
Last blog post we highlighted voice dictation in Office 365, and this week we want to further build your voice dictation skills with what’s called voice commands.
Voice commands are specific words or phrases that you can say, that Office applications understand as an action to carry out, rather than text to type. For example you can say “delete” to have the last word or punctuation before the cursor deleted, or “delete that” to remove the last section of what was dictated.
Now voice commands are pretty cool, but remembering all of them, or looking up the specific one you need to use can be time-consuming. But, voice dictation and voice commands aren’t an all-or-none style of choice. You can choose to voice dictate to get your thoughts out, then go back and edit using your mouse and keyboard. Or you can voice dictate and edit with voice commands. You can mix and match whatever combination suits you, or the paper you’re writing, best.
Fun fact, you can even use voice dictation to get out all of your thoughts, then use the read-aloud feature of Immersive Reader to listen to what you just wrote, and then edit either with voice commands of your mouse and keyboard. …and, RefWorks has your back when it comes to citations and references!!
Now isn’t that a combination for success!!
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