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
APPENDIX
Commands List
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Entering punctuation and special characters
TO ENTER SAY TO ENTER SAY
&ersand or
and sign
*asterisk
’ apostrophe ’s apostrophe s
@ at sign ` backquote
‘ open single quote
or begin single
quote
’ close single quote
or end single quote
“ open quote
open quotes or
begin quote or
begin quotes
” close quote or
close quotes or
end quote or
end quotes
\ backslash / slash or
forward slash
:(space) colon : numeric colon
,(space) comma , numeric comma
^ caret — dash
. dot or point . US/Canada: period
Other Dialects: full stop
$ dollar sign ... ellipsis
= equal sign euro sign/euro
!US/Canada:
exclamation point
All Dialects:
exclamation mark
-hyphen or numeric
hyphen
{ open curly bracket
or left curly bracket
US/Canada:
open brace or left
brace
}
close curly bracket
or right curly
bracket
US/Canada:
close brace or right
brace
[open square
bracket or left
square bracket
US/Canada:
open bracket or left
bracket
] close square
bracket or right
square bracket
US/Canada:
close bracket or
right bracket