wordpad

I just started using speech recognition yesterday so I'm having a myriad of problems with it, but this is the most important one right now. I'm using the inbuilt speech recognition software with Windows 7. When dictating in Wordpad, every time I try to use a hyphen, it just zooms out. The list...

Its wordpad NOT microsoft word. thanks for any help. Eric: i tried that but it still didn't work ):

...pages would that be in a book? ? Lets say in 12 pt. font, times new roman.