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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Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
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You don’t need to dictate hyphens for most phone numbers (numbers that are 7, 10,
or 11 digits long). Dragon NaturallySpeaking will add them automatically.
Telephone numbers outside North America
To dictate other phone numbers, including European phone numbers, you must
say all the punctuation, including the hyphens, spaces, and parentheses.
In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” instead of “parenthesis.”
Fractions
You can dictate most common fractions the way you would normally say them. To
dictate 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/10, and 1/16 or a multiple of these
fractions, just say the fraction normally.
TO ENTER SAY
965-5200 nine six five fifty two hundred
617-965-5200 six one seven nine six five fifty two oh oh
1-800-555-1212 one eight hundred five five five one two one two
(617) 965-5200 [open parenthesis] six one seven [close
parenthesis] nine six five five two zero zero
1-212-555-1212 one two one two five five five one two one two
TO ENTER SAY
(01628) 894150 [open parenthesis] oh one six two eight [close
parenthesis] eight nine four one five oh
027 629 8944 oh two seven [space bar] six two nine [space
bar] eight nine four four
61-7-4695-2055 six one [hyphen] seven [hyphen] four six nine
five [hyphen] two zero five five
(65) 2778590 [open parenthesis] six five [close parenthesis]
two seven seven eight five nine zero
TO ENTER SAY
1/2 one half
1/4 one fourth or one quarter
15/16 fifteen sixteenths or fifteen over sixteen
3 7/8 three and seven eighths or three and seven over eight
TIP