User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- Working on your Desktop
- Programs, documents and folders
- Switching between open windows
- Opening and closing menus
- Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
- Selecting icons on the desktop
- Resizing and closing windows
- Scrolling in windows and list boxes
- Opening lists and making selections
- Pressing keyboard keys
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- Correcting and Editing
- Formatting
- Capitalizing text
- Capitalizing the first letter of the next word you dictate
- Capitalizing consecutive words
- Dictating the next word in all capital letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters
- Dictating the next word in all lowercase letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters
- Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document
- Formatting text
- Capitalizing text
- Working with Applications
- Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
- Using the Command Browser
- Improving Accuracy
- Managing Users
- Using Portable Recorders (Preferred and higher)
- Automate Your Work (Preferred and higher)
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Commands List
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Controlling the microphone
- Controlling the DragonBar
- Controlling the DragonPad
- Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces
- Selecting text
- Correcting text
- Deleting and undoing
- Moving around in a document
- Copying, cutting, and pasting text
- Capitalizing text
- Formatting text
- Entering numbers
- Entering punctuation and special characters
- Playing back and reading text
- Working with your desktop and windows
- E-mail commands
- Using Lotus Notes
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Working hands-free
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Index
8
Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
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■ Say the following abbreviations by pronouncing them as words:
“co,” “com,” “gov,” “mil,” “net,” and “org.”
■ Say the following abbreviations by saying each letter:
“a c,” “b n, “c a,” “e d u,” “ie” “h k,” “i d,” “i n,” “j p,” “m y,” “p h,” “s g,”
“t h,” and “u k.”
■ Use the “No Caps On” and “No Caps Off” commands to enter an e-mail or Web
address in all lowercase letters. For more information about controlling
capitalization, see “Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters” on
page 63.
You can create Text and Graphics custom commands for e-mail and Web addresses you use
often. See “Automate Your Work (Preferred and higher)” on page 153.
Dictating special characters
Dictating common special characters
The following special characters are in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary.
To dictate these characters, just say their names.
TO ENTER SAY
&ersand or and sign
* asterisk
@at sign
` backquote
© copyright sign
^ caret
° degree sign
$ dollar sign or dollar
euros or euro sign
% percent sign
®
registered sign
§ section sign
™ trademark sign
+ plus sign
-minus sign
« open euro quote
» close euro quote
# All Dialects: hash sign or sharp sign
US/Canada: number sign or pound sign
TIP