Recent content by jhsachs

No, it doesn't. That's the only reason I started this thread. What kind of evidence do I need to present to prove that? The documents in question reside in a source control system. The only way to change them is to check them out and then check them back in. While I have them checked out, they...

It appears that I have been using Voice Access. It never asked me to load a dictionary as the instructions say it should, but the instructions are pretty clear that the microphone button in Word and Outlook opens Voice Access, and they don't mention any other speech recognition facility in...

Marcus and dacrone. I'm using the "Dictate" icon in Outlook's Message ribbon or Word's Home ribbon. The examples in my original post were taken from work in Outlook, but I think the behavior in Word must be the same. As I said, I can't find any real documentation; therefore I don't know the...

I'm experimenting with dictation in Windows 11 because I want to be able to write emails and such without using my hands. The dictation process itself works pretty well, but I can't find any instructions for editing what I've dictated. I'm trying to do it by intuition, which sometimes works...

Sorry, but that is not what I'm looking for, for several reasons. The first is that I want to open most documents with the navigation pane, but not all. Adding a macro that makes Word always display the navigation pane when I open a file will just push the problem around, forcing me to close it...

Oh -- the check box on the View ribboni for enabling the navigation pane. "Especially" threw me off, because if you do that, there's no reason to press Ctrl+F first. The navigation box is my customary (and, it increasingly appears, only) way of opening the navigation pane semi-permanently. But...

That never occurred to me: that because Ctrl+F opens a "find" prompt that is in the navigation pane, it opens the navigation pane. It works, but when you press Esc to end the Find operation, the navigation pane goes away again. I don't have a document that presents this problem to experiment on...

I need the navigation pane for many of the documents I edit. Always. But when I open one, it displays without the navigation pane. Always. Then I must turn it on before I can proceed. I've tried to figure out what determines whether Word displays the pane. I see three possibilities: It's a...

I returned to this (about 30 hours later) and tried a search again. Windows Explorer still can't find files in repos. The problem of Explorer erasing the search string while I'm entering it is still there, too; based on the results of a single test, I would say that it is worse than it was. I...

Your belief that I'm asking about the File Explorer search box is correct. Your quotation from "For our developers..." nails the problem I've got, and explains that it's not a bug, it's a feature. The reason they gave for it makes no sense whatever to me, but clearly it was intentional. I...

I'm trying to use File Explorer to search for files in a particular directory, and it's not working. It can't even find a file when I enter the complete name and the file is in the current directory, which is as simple as it gets. In other directories it's flaky, but when it lets me search at...