Windowsxp "text to speech!"

[pg]

Help ... I had a lovely feature for my visually impaired granddaughter
that allowed her to click on any text in "Word" and then hear it in
computer speech by Microsoft Sam or LH Michelle / Michael. Ever since
I had to re-install windowsxp after a hard drive failure I can no
longer use that option. I've got the voices, I just can't get them to
respond to text any longer. What do I tweak to get this valuable
feature back? Thanks,

Paul

 

[Guest]

Paul, try pressing Windows+U (that's the windows key and u). That should
bring up a utility manager where you can turn the text-to-speech narrator on.
Hope that helps!

 

[pg]

Thanks, Brian. It did help! Except it helped too much. In the previous
setup (before the hd failure) all my granddaughter had to do was click
on ?speech? when using "Word" and Michelle or Sam would read a
paragraph or two (wish she were here to refresh my failing memory!)

With the utility manager there's a ctrl-shift-spacebar combination
that has to be gone through and then one gets speech for just about
anything. I must let my granddaughter know about your helpful
suggestion because that would be perfect for her computer. On mine I
just basically wanted back what I had: text to speech for Word,
possibly for Wordpad or other text editors to allow her to use my
Wordprocessor while visiting.

Paul