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So if you ever have a handwritten document like this that you need to transcribe and
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you don't want to take the time to manually type it all out, I'm going to show you a quick
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way that you can automatically dictate your text using Microsoft Word or Word Online
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So let's get started. I'm going to start by opening up Microsoft Word, just like this
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If I hover over to the right hand side, there is a button that says dictate
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When I press this button, it's going to start listening for me to dictate the text to it
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The author builds up suspense in the story. The way she does this is by making us think something bad is going to happen or by conversations
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that might get us nervous, period. Once you're finished, just push the microphone button and you will notice that Word will
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do its best to convert your speech to actual text. Now it's never 100% perfect, so you'll likely find yourself going through and re-reading
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this in order to make sure that your text is grammatically correct and the punctuation
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is right. But there are a few other things that you can do. When you click the dictate button, before you actually record, you can click a gear
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and this will allow you to enable auto-punctuation. By checking on this box, what will happen is Word will automatically add punctuation
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when you stop reading. There's also a bunch of commands that you can use
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I will link these commands in the comments, but this might make your life a little easier
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and help you reduce some of the time that you may spend editing
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So I hope you enjoyed learning about the dictation feature in Microsoft Word. I'm hoping that this will save you time if you ever have to transcribe a handwritten
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piece of writing. Microsoft Word 10.0 Word.Document.8
