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
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■ Some special words have a blank written form. These words are special
dictation words built into Dragon NaturallySpeaking. You cannot add your own
words with a blank written form.
■ Words with a written form that begins with a number (for example, "99th" or a
fraction like "½") appear in the list before words that begin with the letter "a".
To see these words, you must scroll the list up.
To create a spoken form for a word or phrase:
Creating a spoken form can be useful in automating some words or phrases that you
dictate frequently. To create a spoken form:
1 Find the word you want in the list by typing the first few letters in the Written
form box of the Vocabulary Editor.
If the word you want to edit doesn’t appear in Vocabulary Editor, it means the word isn’t in
the active vocabulary. You need to add it to the active vocabulary before you can edit it. (See “View or
edit your vocabulary” on page 123.)
2 Select the word.
3 Type the new spoken form into the Spoken Form box. Make sure you type it
exactly as is it pronounced.
4 (optional) Make any changes, such as punctuation or capitalization, to the
Written Form box.
5 Click Add. This adds the word with your changes.
If the word was already in the active vocabulary before you edited it, you should
then delete the original word.
Creating a spoken form can be useful in automating some words or phrases that you
dictate frequently. For example, you can define a spoken form for a phone number
that you frequently use instead of dictating a string of numbers.
Here are some examples of words with different written and spoken forms. Look in
the Vocabulary Editor window for more examples.
WRITTEN FORM SPOKEN FORM
eBusiness ee business
Daniell Daniel with two ells
Niamh Nev
CINCPAC sink pack
mdbowman@company.com my e-mail address
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