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Chapter 8: Customizing a User Profile
operating systems.
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11\Custom\<language>
n After you import the custom commands to Dragon, for the changes to become available to those
User Profiles, you must close your User Profiles, then re-open and save the User Profiles.
n You can enter a path as a complete local path, a relative path, a mapped network drive, a UNC
path, or the path to removable media, such as a DVD, CD, or ZIP drive. For more information,
see Using paths with nsadmin.
Prepare to use the Data Distribution Tool to export
custom commands
1. In Dragon, create custom commands.
2. Use the Command Browser to export the custom commands to a .dat file, for example, New-
Commands.dat .
3. If you have not already created it, create the data distribution directory. For more information,
see Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
4. On each computer that a user uses for dictation, use the Data Distribution Tool to add the
.dat file to the data distribution directory. For more information, see Adding custom
commands.
Use the Data Distribution Tool to add custom
commands
1. Start the Data Distribution Tool . For more information, see Starting the Data Distribution
Tool.
2. In the Data Distribution Tool , select Add or remove shared commands .
3. Click Next .
4. Select the languages for the User Profiles that you will add custom words to.
5. Click Next .
6. Use the Import button to select the .dat files that contain the custom commands to add. Place
the .dat files into the New shared commands list in the upper half of the dialog box. You can
modify the list by selecting particular file names and using the Remove and Remove All but-
tons.
7. Click Next . The Data Distribution Tool displays a log of all the operations it performs.
8. Click Finish to re-display the Data Distribution Tool main screen or click Cancel to exit.
The next time you open a User Profile, Dragon updates the commands in the associated User
Profiles.
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