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The biggest thing I'd like to turn off is what seems to be an automatic microphone ON condition. I have Word 2003 and there isn't the icon of a microphone in any language menu selection. HELP! [[please]] It pops up often to tell me that the autosave didn't save the inordinate amount of voice data which I didn't even know was being recorded! So aggravating. And it probably is sucking the life out of my tablet PC too!
Thanks so much y'all.