thank you to everyone who responded to my inquiry as to voice recognition software. with your information we (my lan administrator and i) decided that for someone with slurred speech like me that dragon dictate was better than dragon naturally speaking. the software is being order, i'll keep you all updated. i think i am going to get a 2nd government computer to carry home and be allowed to work from there 2-3 days a week. lessening the strain of my 36 mile round trip daily. again thanks for the input.