From the course: The Best of Word Tips Weekly

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Dictate text instead of typing it

Dictate text instead of typing it

From the course: The Best of Word Tips Weekly

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Dictate text instead of typing it

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- [Instructor] For most people it's faster and easier to speak what you want to say than it is to type it out. Well, the good news is for Word users with an Office 365 account or for those using Word online, you can now use Dictation. That's what we're going to explore in this week's Word Tip and we'll do it with a new blank document. Now, you will have to have an Office 365 account and be signed in. You can see I'm logged in here as Mark Tristener. You can also be working with Word Online, where with the Home tab selected on the ribbon, we find a Dictate button broken up into two halves, an upper and lower. Clicking the lower half shows us the different languages we can choose from and an opportunity to begin Dictation, turning it on here. The same as clicking the top half of this button. Now, when you're speaking, you'll be using your computer's microphone if it's built in, a headset you may have connected, or even the built in microphone in many mobile devices. So that has to be…

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