Shortcut for MS Word

[inkarpathos]

I have TextAloud version 4.0.59

Is there a way to have the shortcut of TextAloud in a MS Word document?

[Jim Bretti]

Are you looking for a way to launch TextAloud from MS Word? If you have the TextAloud Add-in for Word installed, using any speak function in the TextAloud ribbon will launch TextAloud.

If you want something more like a shortcut, the only way I know of to do it is with a VBA macro. The macro itself is pretty simple, just something like

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Sub RunTextAloud()

    Shell "C:\Program Files(x86)\TextAloud\TextAloudMP3.exe", vbNormalFocus

End Sub

To create the macro you'll need to review the documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office ... -in-office. Once the macro is created you can customize the ribbon to add a button to run the macro.