User guide

Chapter 10: Working on Your Desktop
Example:
If the File menu is open, say "New"
To close a menu
Say "Cancel"
Notes
n Say "Click Start Menu" or "Click Start" to open the Start menu. You must say "Click"
to open the Start menu. By default, you must say "Click" before the name of menus
in commands. To change the setting, see Require "Click" to select menus in the
Dragon Help.
n Saying "Cancel" is equivalent to pressing the ESC key.
n In some versions of Windows, a feature called Active Accessibility allows you to con-
trol certain windows menus and controls by voice. If your version of Windows sup-
ports Active Accessibility, the "Voice-enable menus, buttons, and other controls,
excluding" option on the Miscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box must be on in
order to use voice commands to control menus. When you first install Dragon, this
option is on by default.
n When using Microsoft Office XP applications running on the Microsoft Windows
XP operating system you may not be able to control certain menu items by voice if
those menu items have changed their position as a result of an automatically expand-
ing menu. If you need voice control of menu items at all times, then you can turn off
the expanding menu feature in the Customize dialog box of the Microsoft Office XP
application you are using. Open the Customize dialog box from the Toolbars sub-
menu of the View menu. In the Options tab of the Customize dialog box, select the
"Always show full menus" option.
Selecting buttons and dialog box options
You can select buttons and dialog box options by voice.
The dialog box must be the active window.
To select a button or option
Say "Click" followed by the name of the button or option, as it appears in the window, or
just say the name.
Saying "Click" before the name of the button or option is optional. If you want to require it,
for example, to improve recognition accuracy of commands over dictation, you can specify
that "Click" must be spoken on the Commands tab of the Options dialog box.
Example
To change the measurement units in a Microsoft Word document:
n say "Click Office Button"
n say "Click Word Options" (to open the Microsoft Word Options dialog box)
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