I'm just recovering from an RSI episode which started half way through my last contract, for the last 2-3 months of the contract I did *ALL* my programming using Dragon Naturally Speakng(Prefered edition). I was using VS2005 and features like intellisence make a big difference, so you only have to laboriously speak the variable name once for the declaration, after that you use intellisence. Eg. "SomeVariableName" would be spoken as: - "some variable name" pause "select last three words" pause "cap that" pause "compond that". Then later when you want "SomeVariableName = 5;" you say: - "Some equals" pause "press 5" pause "semi-colon". In practice you would pause after "Some" to check the intellisence and possibly add "Press Victor" or say "move down 5" or whatever. There's no question that it's really hard work, and somewhat less productive, but it is do-able, and it gets easier as you and the software learn. Tom