12.0
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1: What's New in Dragon Version 12
- Chapter 2: Installing Dragon
- Installation and User Profile Creation
- Dragon system requirements
- What you should know before installing
- Installation Prerequisites
- Installing Software - Typical Installation
- Installing Software - Custom Installation
- Modifying application settings for all users
- Modifying formatting options for all users
- Creating your user profile
- Setting up, positioning, and checking your microphone
- Training a new user profile
- Adapting to your writing style and scheduling tuning
- How Dragon automatically configures user profiles
- Upgrading User Profiles
- Version 12 File Structure
- Accessing log files, samples, and tools
- Activating Dragon
- Chapter 3: Getting Started
- Chapter 4: Dictating Text
- Dictation Basics
- Undoing actions
- Correcting text errors as you dictate
- Dictation commands
- Typing or spelling text
- Spelling words
- Dictating numbers
- Using the Dictation Box
- Using the Dictation Box
- Using Dictation Box in unsupported applications
- Turning off the Dictation Box
- Unsupported applications
- Transferring your text
- The Full Text Control Indicator
- Dictating in unknown text fields
- Editing text in unknown text fields
- Defining how the Dictation Box works in different applications
- Unexpected behavior or text in the Dictation Box
- Dictation Box Settings
- Using DragonPad
- Chapter 5: Making Corrections
- Chapter 6: Revising Text
- Chapter 7: Working in Programs
- Chapter 8: Working with Web applications
- Using Rich Internet Application extensions
- Browser requirements for Web application support
- Enabling Web application support
- How to tell if Web application support is active
- Using Gmail
- Using Hotmail
- Editing text in a supported Web application
- Using Dragon's Web capabilities without RIA
- If you have problems using Web application support
- Chapter 9: Working with Web browsers
- Chapter 10: Working on Your Desktop
- Starting and exiting programs
- Using Windows Desktop commands
- Controlling menus
- Selecting buttons and dialog box options
- Selecting tabs in a dialog box
- Resizing and closing windows
- Selecting and opening icons
- Scrolling in windows and lists
- Searching your Desktop by voice
- Switching between programs and windows
- Chapter 11: Controlling the Mouse and Keyboard
- Chapter 12: Improving recognition accuracy
- Top 10 ways to improve accuracy
- Using Smart Format Rules
- Adjusting Speed vs. Accuracy
- The Dragon Accuracy Center
- Recognition Modes
- Teaching Dragon to Understand You Better
- Personalizing your Dragon Vocabulary
- About personalizing your Vocabulary
- Adding words or phrases to your Vocabulary
- Using punctuation with written and spoken forms
- Learning from specific documents
- Importing lists of words or phrases
- Adding words with the Spelling window
- Learn From Sent E-mails
- Adding contact names to the Vocabulary
- Deleting words
- Using the Don't Recognize That Word Command
- Managing Vocabularies
- Chapter 13: Using the Command Browser
- Chapter 14: The Dragon Glossary
- Index
Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Chapter 10: Working on
Your Desktop
This section contains the following topics:
Starting and exiting programs 171
Using Windows Desktop commands 173
Controlling menus 176
Selecting buttons and dialog box options 177
Selecting tabs in a dialog box 178
Resizing and closing windows 178
Selecting and opening icons 178
Scrolling in windows and lists 179
Searching your Desktop by voice 180
Switching between programs and windows 181
Starting and exiting programs
Use the following voice commands to start programs that appear anywhere on
your Start menu or your Desktop.
Attention
The "Start <program name>" command can be turned off to reduce computer
memory use and eliminate misrecognitions of dictation as commands. See
Enable launching from the Start menu in the Dragon Help.
To start a program
Say "Start" followed by the program name.
Instead of "start," you can also say "open," "launch" or "show." For example,
say "open Notepad."
Shorter names for popular programs
For the popular Windows programs listed here, you can use shorter program
names in addition to the standard program label shown on the Start menu or
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