Word For Mac Manual

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Set up Dictation

Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Dictation. Turn on Dictation and choose from these Dictation options:

  • Choose whether to use Enhanced Dictation, which lets you use dictation when you're not connected to the Internet.
  • Choose your language and dialect. Some languages, such as English, have multiple dialects.
  • Choose the keyboard shortcut you will use to start start dictating.
  • Choose your preferred microphone from the pop-up menu below the microphone icon.


In macOS Sierra, you can ask Siri to “turn on Dictation” for you. Siri isn't the same as Dictation, but you can ask Siri to compose short messages, such as email and text messages.

Use Dictation

  1. Go to a document or other text field and place the insertion point where you want your dictated text to appear.
  2. Press the keyboard shortcut for starting dictation, or choose Edit > Start Dictation. The default shortcut is Fn Fn (press the Fn key twice).
    When your Mac is listening, it displays a microphone to the left or right of the page, aligned with the insertion point. If you turn on advanced dictation commands, the microphone appears in the lower-right corner of your screen, and you can drag it to another position. When your Mac can hear you, the input meter inside the microphone rises and falls as you speak.
  3. Speak the words that you want your Mac to type. Dictation learns the characteristics of your voice and adapts to your accent, so the more you use it, the better it understands you. If it doesn't understand you, learn what to do.
  4. To stop dictating, click Done below the microphone icon, press Fn once, or switch to another window.

Speak the following words to enter punctuation or other characters. These may vary by language or dialect.

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  • apostrophe '
  • open bracket [
  • close bracket ]
  • open parenthesis (
  • close parenthesis )
  • open brace {
  • close brace }
  • open angle bracket <
  • close angle bracket >
  • colon :
  • comma ,
  • dash -
  • ellipsis …
  • exclamation mark !
  • hyphen -
  • period, point, dot, or full stop .
  • question mark ?
  • quote ”
  • end quote ”
  • begin single quote '
  • end single quote '
  • semicolon ;
  • ampersand &
  • asterisk *
  • at sign @
  • backslash
  • forward slash /
  • caret ^
  • center dot ·
  • large center dot •
  • degree sign °
  • hashtag or pound sign #
  • percent sign %
  • underscore _
  • vertical bar |
  • dollar sign $
  • cent sign ¢
  • pound sterling sign £
  • euro sign €
  • yen sign ¥
  • cross-eyed laughing face XD
  • frowny face :-(
  • smiley face :-)
  • winky face ;-)
  • copyright sign ©
  • registered sign ®
  • trademark sign ™
  • equals sign =
  • greater than sign >
  • less than sign <
  • minus sign -
  • multiplication sign x
  • plus sign +
  • caps on (formats next phrase in title case)
  • caps off (resumes default letter case)
  • all caps (formats next word in ALL CAPS)
  • all caps on (proceeds in ALL CAPS)
  • all caps off (resumes default letter case)
  • new line (adds line break)
  • numeral (formats next phrase as number)
  • roman numeral (formats next phrase as Roman numeral)
  • new paragraph (adds paragraph break)
  • no space on (formats next phrase without spaces)
  • no space off (resumes default spacing)
  • tab key (advances cursor to the next tab stop)


If you turned on Enhanced Dictation, you can also use dictation commands to bold, italicize, underline, select, copy, delete, undo, and perform other actions.

About Enhanced Dictation

Enhanced Dictation is available in OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later. With Enhanced Dictation:

  • You can dictate continuously.
  • You can dictate without being connected to the Internet.
  • Your words might convert to text more quickly.
  • You can use dictation commands to tell your Mac what to do.

Without Enhanced Dictation, your spoken words and certain other data are sent to Apple to be converted into text and help your Mac understand what you mean. As a result, your Mac must be connected to the Internet, your words might not convert to text as quickly, and you can speak for no more than 40 seconds at a time (30 seconds in OS X Yosemite or earlier).

If you're on a business or school network that uses a proxy server, Dictation might not be able to connect to the Internet. Have your network administrator refer to the list of network ports used by Apple software products.

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About Dictation and privacy

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To learn about Dictation and privacy, choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, click Dictation, then click the About Dictation & Privacy button. At all times, information collected by Apple is treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Learn more

  • To use dictation on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap the microphone on the onscreen keyboard, then speak. Consult your iPhone or iPad user guide for details.
  • If the Slow Keys or Sticky Keys feature is turned on in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences, the default keyboard shortcuts for dictation might not work. If you need to use those accessibility features, create a custom dictation shortcut: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, click Dictation, then choose “Customize” from the Shortcut menu.

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In Office 2011 for Mac, Word features a fast, new way to make a Table of Contents (TOC). If you’ve been using Heading styles throughout your document, the process is entirely automatic. Choose to make a Table of Contents automatically; otherwise, select the Manual Formatting option.

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Follow these steps to make a TOC:

  1. Click in the document where you want the TOC to appear.

  2. In the Document Elements tab of the Ribbon, look in the Table of Contents group and click the tab at the bottom-center of the gallery.

  3. Choose a TOC style from the Automatic Table of Contents group in the gallery.

    * Choose Heading Styles if your document contains Heading styles.

    * Choose Manual if your document does not contain Heading styles.

    If you choose an Automatic option, based on the heading styles you used in the document, Word creates a quick TOC for you! If you choose the Manual option, Word guesses at your document’s structure and presents you with a generic TOC based on your format choice from the gallery that you can customize manually.

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How fast and easy is that? As long as your document is well-structured based on Heading styles, Word’s TOC feature saves you a ton of work. But what if you want more TOC style choices? No problem! Select the entire TOC that you put into your document. In Word, choose Insert→Index and Tables, and then select the Table of Contents tab in the Index and Tables dialog that appears.

Here you can choose from additional formatting options:

  • Formats: Shows built-in and your own custom TOC format styles.

  • Show Levels: Sets how many heading levels will be used in the TOC.

  • Show Page Numbers: This check box shows or hides page numbers.

  • Right Align Page Numbers: This check box aligns page numbers left or right.

  • Tab Leader: This pop-up menu offers more choices for the type of leader line that will be inserted between headings and page numbers.

  • Options button: This button opens the Table of Contents Options dialog.

    With the Table of Contents dialog, you can manually map styles to TOC levels by typing in TOC level values in the fields to the right of the Available Styles list. You can determine which styles to make available:

    • Styles: Selecting this box allows you to choose from TOC styles from Normal.dotm and other open templates.

    • Table Entry Fields: Select this box to allow mapping of TOC Word field codes in your document to TOC levels in a TOC.

    • Modify:Available if you choose From Template in the Styles list.