I use a series of advanced scripting macros of to generate an outline of a letter. At the conclusion of generating the templated text, word selects a specific phrase from there I can dictate specific examination findings.

I recently upgraded to Dragon 11 Medical with KB2011. Since upgrading many things are improved however the insertion point jumps to consistent points, selects text, deletes it and then jumps to another location. This always occurs in a predictable manner, jumping to the same location each time and deleting the same text each time.

I have taken several steps to troubleshoot this including the following without success:

1.) Checked the advanced scripting code, this is unchanged from 2006 and has been working well until this upgrade.

2.) Edited the C:\ProgramData\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\NSSystem.ini file as in the quick tips.

3.) Turned off addins including onenote. The only software on this machine is KB2008, DNS Medical 11, MS Office, Adobe Acrobat 8.0 professional and google chrome.  This behavior occurs when acrobat and chrome are not running.

4.)  Rebuilt the word template document using word 2010.

5.) Unchecked "smart cursoring."

 Despite this the problem continues. I am running out of options here and would appreciate any suggestions.

 Thank you. 

Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit, Core i5 at 1.7 GHz, 4GB Ram, KB2011, DNS 11.0 Medical. 

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Thank you.

Firstly:

I dictated into a newly opened blank document. (no template, just using the same advanced scripting commands) and the error still continues. It suggests that this does not relate to my template.

Here is the code of the advanced scripting command. I have removed most of the body of the text. It relies on sendkeys, at the conclusion, it uses word to search for "NasalSeptum " and selects this.

This code executes correctly and selects NasalSeptum.

The instant I start dictating anything the code jumps to normal, (Examination of the tongue base is normal which is the last word of the sendkeys command) selects this, deletes it and replaces it with the text I am dictating.

Sub Main

                SendKeys "His neck is … "

                SendKeys "His voice .. "

                SendKeys "saliva is .. "

                SendKeys "tympanic .."

                SendKeys "..  He is nose breathing at rest with minimal nasal congestion. NASALSEPTUM "

                SendKeys "Examination of the mouth shows … "

                SendKeys "Examination of the tongue base is normal. "

                Wait 0.5

    With Selection.Find

        .Text = "NASALSEPTUM "

        .Replacement.Text = ""

        .Forward = True

        .Wrap = wdFindContinue

        .Format = False

        .MatchCase = False

       .MatchWholeWord = False

        .MatchWildcards = False

        .MatchSoundsLike = False

        .MatchAllWordForms = False

    End With

    Selection.Find.Execute

End Sub 

 There are several ways to resolve this.

1) At the end of your last SendKeys line, add a ", True" after the trailing quote.

SendKeys "Examination of the tongue base is normal. ", True

   This should wait until the text is produced to do the rest of the script.

2) If that doesn't work, then you could change the SendKeys to SendDragonKeys. 

3) OR change the SendKeys  to Selection.TypeText statements and then you could get rid of the Wait statement.

If one of these doesn't work, there are at least 3 other ways of dealing with this.  Fundamentally, the SendKeys statements are running asynchronously and your Selection.Find.Execute is being done before the SendKeys is finished.

Larry Allen
Softnet Systems, Inc.
http://www.pcspeak.com

Thanks; perhaps I did not make the problem clear.

The code above executes correctly, the word "NasalSeptum" is selected.  The error does not happen until the instant I dictate the next sentence. 

I can not figure out with one lot of text selected, why word jumps to the previous insertion point, deletes the final word and then correctly inserts the text I am dictating.

 I appreciate your suggestions.