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Has anyone succesfully populated a load of numbers into a spreadsheet? I can get it to work for a while, then just selects random cells, or performs random actions. It's quicker to type.
I'm using a dedicated desktop mic, but it just doesn't understand simple numbers, however clearly I speak
I tried using it for text documents and it was quite good but I found Google Voice Typing worked better but that was oin Google Docs, not sur eif it works in Word.
I should imaging typing would always be quicker for numbers in Excel.
The other problem with Excel voice typing is spotting the mistakes. It is quite easy to ready through a document to spot where the wrong word has been inserted but harder with lists of numbers
that sounds like a terrible idea, what are the numbers?
Sounds like a rubbish idea but if you must you would be better creating a CSV file (comma separated). So you would say
123 comma 456 comma 789 newline
321 comma 654 comma 987. And this should produce
123,456,789\n\r321,654,987
Where \n\r is the new line combo for Windows (you will just see a new line) and thus file can be imported I to the spreadsheet of your choice.
Numbers can be anything from a single digit to in the hundreds, most with a single decimal. In columns of 24 and approx 6700 total
The principle is fine - click on the cell, say the number > enter. When you've got the 24 for the particular column, say insert
It may be my voice, but 50% of the time, it doesn't undertstand - tried saying three, four, six, point seven for example, or three hundred and forty six point seven and it just does random words that sound a little bit similar, or some other action on the spreadsheet.
I've given up anyway. I hate typing - especially on a laptop with no dedicated number pad. I've ordered a BT dedicated number pad