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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Working on your Desktop
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To open a document or folder from your Windows
®
desktop, just say “Start” and
then the name below the icon. For example, to open a folder named “Projects,” say
“Start Projects.”
Switching between open windows
You can switch between the windows you have open by saying “Switch to” and then
say the name of the program or document window exactly as it appears in the title
bar.
For example, if Microsoft
®
Word
®
is running, you can switch to it by saying “Switch to
Microsoft word.”
You can also switch between open windows by saying “Switch to Previous Window”
(same as pressing ALT+TAB) and “Switch to Next Window” (same as pressing
ALT+SHIFT+TAB).
Opening and closing menus
You can activate any menu by saying the menu name.
To open a menu:
1 Open a program window (for example, Microsoft
®
Word) and make it active.
SAY THIS TO
Switch to Next Window Switch to the next application.
Switch to Previous Window Switch to the previous application.
Switch to Microsoft Word Make Microsoft
®
Word the active application.
Switch to (name of
application)
Switch to the open application you specify. Say the
name of the application as it appears in the title bar
of the application window.
Say “Start Projects”