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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Starting to Dictate
ow that you’ve installed your software and completed training, you’re ready to
dictate your first sentence.
Starting Dragon NaturallySpeaking
If Dragon NaturallySpeaking is not already running, you can start it by:
■ Double-clicking the Dragon NaturallySpeaking icon:
■ Selecting Programs>Dragon NaturallySpeaking from the Start menu.
■ Right-clicking the QuickStart taskbar tray icon and selecting Start
NaturallySpeaking, if the QuickStart option is enabled. For more information
on using the QuickStart option, see “Using QuickStart” on page 25.
Turning on the microphone
Before you can dictate, you need to turn on the microphone. You turn on the
microphone by:
■ Clicking the microphone icon on the DragonBar. You can click this icon again
to turn it off.
■ Pressing the plus (+) key on the numeric keypad to turn the microphone on,
and then press it again to turn the microphone off.
■ Clicking the microphone icon in the Windows task bar.
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Microphone