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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For more complete lists of special characters, see “Entering punctuation and special
characters” on page 194 or the online Help.
Dictating uncommon special characters
If you use uncommon special characters in your writing (for example, a double-
dagger sign ‡), you can enter them by voice using the Spell command. If you use a
special character frequently, you can also add it as a new word using the Vocabulary
Editor.
For the complete list of special characters and their names, see the Special
Characters topic in the online Help and the following sections in the Appendix:
■ “Publishing symbols” on page 179
■ “Accented and international characters” on page 181
■ “Mathematical symbols” on page 181
■ “Currency symbols” on page 179
To dictate a special character:
1 Just say “Spell”plus the name of the character. For example, if you want to enter
a double-dagger sign (‡) into your document, say “Spell double dagger.”
To add a special character to the vocabulary:
If you frequently want to dictate an unrecognized special character (for example,
double-dagger sign - ‡) into your document, you could add “double dagger” as a new
word in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary. Follow these steps:
1 In your document, dictate the phrase you want to use to enter the special
character (for example, say “double dagger”). Dragon NaturallySpeaking enters
the words into your document.
2 Say “Spell That” to open the Spell dialog box.
£ US/Canada: pound sterling sign
Other Dialects: pound sign or pound
:-) smiley face
:-( frowny face
;-) winky face
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