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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Correcting and Editing
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Deleting the next or previous word or character
You can delete the next or previous word by saying “Delete Next Word” or “Delete
Previous Word.” You can delete the next or previous character by saying “Delete Next
Character”
or “Delete Previous Character.”
You can also delete a number of words or characters (up to 20). For example, you can
say
“Delete Previous 5 Words.”
See the complete list below:
Another way to delete the previous character is by saying “Backspace.” This is equivalent to
pressing the BACKSPACE key. You can “press” it multiple times (up to 20) by saying, for example,
“Backspace 5.”
Spelling as you dictate
With the Spell command in Dragon NaturallySpeaking, you can easily spell a word
or phrase you want to dictate into your document. This can be useful if you are
dictating a word that is not likely to be in the Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary,
such as a proprietary term, a proper name, or a non-English word. Say, for example,
“Spell b-u-o-n space g-i-o-r-n-o.” The word you spelled appears right in your
document.
You must say “Cap” if the word contains a capital letter. For example, say “Spell Cap
R-u-m-p-e-l-s-t-i-l-s-k-i-n” to type “Rumpelstilskin.”
Forward Line
Back 2...20 Lines
Last
SAY THEN THEN
Delete Next Word
Forward 2...20 Words
Previous Character
Back 2...20 Characters
Last 2...20 Characters
SAY THEN THEN
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