Windows Speech Recognition not working with Excel 2007 in Vista Small Business

[EagleOne]

Vista Small business (up to date)
Excel 2007

Windows Speech Recognition is excellent!! That said, I can not get it to work with Excel 2007 when
in Vista . In contrast, I have Excel 2007 on an XP machine and the Dragon Naturally Speaking works
as expected.

When in Excel, in a cell, if I say i.e. 1000 I get the question "What did you say?"
If I say "Account number" it asks "What did you say?"

If I use Notepad, Word, what ever; Windows Speech Recognition gets it correct!!

What am I obviously missing when using Excel?

I realize that answer is probably stupidly easy.

Any help appreciated!!

BTW, I have rebooted etc.

 

[EagleOne]

I did experiment with formatting the cells as either text or numbers. That was not the answer.

What I did do is select a Speech Recognition option worded something like "Use speech recognition in
all applications." Then it started to work in Excel.

That said, it is not very efficient, meaning, If I say 1000 it responds:
1) 1000
2) 1,000
3) one thousand

Then I must say:
"One" then
"OK" then
"Enter"

Works but .....

With Dragon Naturally Speaking on XP, I can say "1000" then "Enter" two steps not the four steps
required in Vista.

Is there a different setting in Speech Recognition which will make the SR more efficient?

TIA EagleOne