Applies to all editions of Windows Vista.

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Use Speech Recognition to click anywhere on the screen

You can use Windows Speech Recognition to click anywhere on the screen by overlaying a 3 × 3 square grid on your entire screen. Each square of the grid is numbered, and when you say the number associated with a square, the grid zooms in on that square and another 3 × 3 grid is then overlayed on the area. When the item you want to click is located in a numbered area of the grid, you can click it by using the commands listed in this table.

Say "mousegrid" to display the numbered grid on your screen:

Picture of the mousegridMousegrid

  • Open Speech Recognition by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Windows Speech Recognition.

Speech Recognition commands for clicking anywhere on the screen

The following table describes Speech Recognition commands for clicking anywhere on the screen. Words in italics indicate that you can say many different things in place of the example word or phrase and get useful results.

To do this

Say this

Show the mousegrid

Mousegrid

Click a mousegrid square

Click number of the square

Move the mouse pointer to the center of any mousegrid square

number of the square; 1; 7; 9;

Select an item to drag with the mousegrid

number of the square where the item appears; 3, 7, 9 (followed by) mark

Select an area where you want to drag the item with the mousegrid

number of the square where you want to drag; 4, 5, 6 (followed by) click

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