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User Guide
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If Dragon types the full word instead of the abbreviation or
acronym, enters the wrong word, or includes incorrect
punctuation, just correct it in your document by voice or by
keyboard.
Abbreviations and spelled-out words in Dragon Medical
You can set up Dragon Medical to automatically use special
abbreviations or spell out words that would otherwise be
abbreviated or replaced by symbols but should not be in a
medical context. To set up these types of special formats in
Dragon Medical:
1 On the DragonBar, select To o ls > Formatting.
2 In the Formatting dialog box, click the Numbers, Units,
and Dates tab.
3 Click the check boxes that indicate the usage you would like:
■ Rewrite “cc” after a number as “mL”
■ Rewrite “U” after a number as “units”
■ Write “degree” and “degrees” after a number as “ ”
■ Insert a space between “mm” and “Hg”
■ Write “%” as “percent”
■ Write out “positive” and “negative” before numbers and for
blood types and Rh factors
■ Expect temperatures to be dictated in Celsius rather than
Fahrenheit
4 Click the Abbreviations tab.
HTML H T M L (say each letter)
8 cm eight centimeters
US/Canada: pp. 27–33
Other Dialects: pp 27–33
pages 27 hyphen 33
NATO NATO (say as one word)
NASDAQ NASDAQ (say as one word)
TO ENTER SAY
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