Microsoft word initializing places

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Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Outlook IT Pro Discussions. This forum is for general questions and feedback related to Outlook all versions as they pertain to the IT Pro community. Sign in to vote. Same "initializing places" prompt appears when attempting to "Save as Most users do not have network drives but some do have links under my network places, usually to web locations.

Clearing the Outlook recent places folder as well as clearing the "recent places" pane in Word and Excel fail to resolve the issue. Even physically disconnecting the pc from the network and rebooting does nothing. To use it, your PC needs to be connected to the internet. To dictate in other languages, see Use speech recognition.

Method B: Your keyboard language should match the language of your Windows. To isolate the issue, create a local user account. Once done, you can try using the Windows dictation from that account. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Thanks for the reply and appreciate your efforts to work on this issue. Ensure that the 'Online Speech Recognition' option is enabled in the Settings screen to check if that helps.

Open the Settings screen, click on Privacy and click on Speech. There's a wizard to help you get started. Just plug in your microphone, and then, in the search box on the taskbar, type Speech Recognition, and select Windows Speech Recognition. Hope this helps and let us know how it goes. We are glad to hear that the PC is working as it should and I thank you for providing the information about it, since it might help other users with similar issues.

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