Why doesn't dictation work on my MAC when I use Pages?

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I have dictation turned on in preferences.

 

[Jaguarr40]

Well I don't know what would keep it from working but on my MBA which I just tried it worked fine and am including a screenshot but all I did was start a doc I pulled from my documents in finder and it is grayed out now but when I opened a doc it was ready to go so check this setting.