My PC is an HP e9150t quad core machine using an Intel i7 CPU (920@2.67 GHz). I have 8 GB of RAM and am running Windows Vista Home Premium-64-Bit, Service Pack 2.
Recently I was using Dragon Naturally Speaking, which is a voice activation program, in Microsoft Excel 2007. After experiencing a lot of problems, I realized that my Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-on was disabled.
When I clicked on the disabled add-ons, the one for NaturallySpeaking for Excel displayed (dgnexcel.dll) with the following message The items listed below were disabled because they prevented XL from functioning correctly.
I vaguely recall that several months ago I was having a number of problems and for some reason disabled this add-on. For the life of me, I cannot recall the specifics.
Therefore I am in a quandary because on the one hand I need to enable this add-on for Dragon NaturallySpeaking to function properly within Excel, however the message I'm getting from Excel is I should not.
What would you suggest I do?
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Before I do that, what would be the downside of enabling the Dragon NaturallySpeaking add-on and see if in fact Excel does not function normally?
How severe a warning is this? In the past whenever I see something like "if you do this, then that might happen" messages, I usually tried it. In this specific case, if Excel does start to be, nonfunctioning, wouldn't it be correctable by a disabling the add-on again?
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by: paxomaticPosted on 2009-11-01 at 13:42:58ID: 25715638
Hi Photoman,
This sounds like one of those problems that you could spend hours, even days troubleshooting and to no avail. We know that the add-in does work when all is going well. May I be so bold as to suggest that perhaps quickest solution is to:
1. Export your Dragon users files to a safe location. (DragonBar >> NaturallySpeaking >> Manage Users >> Advanced >> Export, then select the location).
2. Uninstall Dragon.
3. Uninstall Office.
4. Reinstall Office.
5. Reinstall Dragon.
6. Import your user files by doing the same as above, but selecting Import.
Pax