using ms agents with word documents

[j_natale]

Can anyone tell me how to use Microsoft agents with microsoft word? I would deeply appreciate it!

Thank you,

Jim

[Don Ferguson]

Hi Jim,

It depends on what interaction you want between the MS Agents and Word.

Ultra Hal works with MS Agents, so you can cut-and-paste text from any Word document into the Ultra Hal sytem and have an MS Agent read it to you.

Also, if you use the speech recognition from the paid-version of Ultra Hal to dictate something, you can import the text file, or cut-and-paste, to get it into Word.

I also thought that you might be talking about those little "wizard" characters that pop up for help in Word and the other Office applications.  

In Office 97 and 2000, those characters are NOT MS Agents, but I heard that in Office XP (and of course Word XP), the wizard characters ARE agents, so ANY agent-compatible character could be set up to be your wizard-helper.  This sounds appealing, but it hasn't yet caused me to upgrade to XP yet!

If anybody on this forum has Office XP and is using an MS Agent-compatible character with it as the help wizard, let us know how you like it!

You can get a lot of material on MS Agents by searching in Google on the term "MS Agents" (when you search, play around with and without spacing, quotation marks, abbreviation, etc.).

Sincerely,

Don

[Morkeleb]

I may not be running Office XP, I just have XP home edition with Word Perfect.

When I use any ms agents for searching they work fine.

Windows XP is a good OS to have but like all things it is not perfect.
It does like to eat up a lot of memmory if you run to many background services, and it will slow you system down.

If your not experiencing any problems with your current OS I wouldn't upgrad just for the fany buttons and visual themes. They ahve completey changed how the file structure is and the looks of many options.