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How to make OneNote 2010 speak to you

  • Artigo

Did you know OneNote can talk? Here's how:

Click File | Options to open the option dialog, then click Customize Ribbon. This is to set up the ribbon for the speak command. On the right side of the dialog, expand the Home tab, then click the New Group button at the bottom:

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I named the group My New Group.

Then, on the left pane, change the drop down Choose commands from to be All Commands. Scroll down to the Speak command:

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Then click the Add>> button to add it to the group named My New Group:

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Click OK.

Now go to any page in OneNote and select some text. Click the Home tab and then the Speak button in the group you just created.

OneNote will read the text to you!

This is not unique to OneNote, by the way - all the Office 2010 apps have this.

I was playing around with customizing my ribbon and stumbled across this. It really is a nice feature and I thought I would share it with you. I'm taking a week or so off - see you when I get back!

(And some folks will wonder where the menu command to Solve a system of equations got into my ribbon.  It came from the Math Addin).

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

John

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2010
    Lol that's cute! I just tried it and it works....ok so why do I want it speaking to me again? ;) http://www.defuse.com

  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2010
    Why WOULDN"T you want it to talk to you? :)

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2010
    I owe you a cuppa joe, man! This is AWESOME!!! As a writer, having my prose read back to me really helps me catch those nagging bugs. I've been using a third-party app for this, but having something integrated and available from the Home ribbon, well, that's just more than I could have asked for! Good, great, excellent. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2010
    I hit something by mistake and my message was sent before I edited it! Hope it made sense (:

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2010
    Glad to help, Cliff.  Be careful with promising coffee to folks that live near Seattle - some of us are snobs about coffee :)

  • Anonymous
    October 13, 2010
    Nice tip thanks about this, but it may be true that worked only in english language version of onenote? It doesn't work with me in german.

  • Anonymous
    October 13, 2010
    I only tested English.  I only have one machine with speakers.  Sorry for any misunderstanding.

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Lol! Those of us in San Francisco are equally snobby when it come to coffee. I was thinking a nice cuppa Kopi Luwak would be in order (:

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Lol! Those of us in San Francisco are equally snobby when it come to coffee. I was thinking a nice cuppa Kopi Luwak would be in order (:

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Sorry about the duplicate post...I don't know what it is about your site and my computer. Hmm...there's never a good qa tester around when you need one (:

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Sorry about the duplicate post...I don't know what it is about your site + my computer! Hmm...there's never a good qa tester around when you need one (:

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    Sorry about the duplicate post...I don't know what it is about your site + my computer! Hmm...there's never a good qa tester around when you need one (:

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2010
    No worries about the dupes.  Kona coffee, by the way :)

  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2011
    @Mario Yes it only works in english versions, I also tried german. It is a pitty, ms ignores it's international customers. They also hide text transcriptions from us.