Services menu dimmed (especially Spech)

[blvdeast]

When I go to the Services menu under the Application menu everything is dimmed except the selections with a subcatogary (sp?) and those selections in there are dimmed as well. I wanted just to use the speech option to read my speech in
Word. Is there a way to at least enable the speech?
Also, I wanted to post this under the Panther forum here and on apple.com, but I could not find the post button. Does apple and this board shut down posting at nights, or is his just safari acting weird (nothing new)

[Counterfit]

The Services Menu is only available to applications written using the Cocoa API. Open TextEdit and take a look, you can use (almost) everything in there.

[Rower_CPU]

You have to select some text in order for those services to have anything to "service".

Try again with some text selected...

[Counterfit]

Yeah, that too ;)

[billyboy]

You can also use Cocoa Gestures to activate the services for Cocoa apps without having to click on commands.