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Chapter 10: Working on Your Desktop
Controlling menus
You can open, close, and choose items from the menus in most programs by
voice. To control the menus in a window, the window must be active.
To open a menu
Say one of the following:
"Click" followed by the name of the menu.
Just say the menu name.
Example:
"Click File" or "File"
Dragon's default setting is to require that you say "Click" to select menus and
controls. See Require "Click" to select menus in the Dragon Help.
To choose an item from an open menu
Just say the item (you can still say "Click" but Dragon doesn't need you to).
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 control certain windows menus and controls by voice. If your ver-
sion of Windows supports 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 Win-
dows 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 expanding menu. If you need voice control of
menu items at all times, then you can turn off the expanding menu fea-
ture 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.
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