To start dictating again, click on the microphone icon. You can also say “Pause dictation” or ‘Stop dictation”.
The microphone icon will appear in your document in blue – start talking and what you say will appear as text in the document. You can access the Dictate function by opening a new Word document head to the Home tab and click on “Dictate”. Using the Dictate function is a quick and easy way to get your thoughts and ideas out, creating drafts or outlines and capturing notes without having to type them. For those of us who use the keyboard for a lot of our work tasks – i.e writing research papers, reviewing research papers, writing proposals, typing lengthy emails the Dictate function available in Word can assist in giving yourself a break from the keyboard work.