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
Dragon Sidebar Help and Tips contexts
Use the Sidebar for Help and Tips about Dragon in these programs and
contexts:
n Desktop commands
n Global commands
n DragonBar, DragonPad, Dictation Box, Spelling window (see Dragon
Help), Command Browser
n Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail. Please
see the Dragon Helpfor Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft PowerPoint,
and Microsoft InfoPath.
n .Corel WordPerfect (see Dragon Help)
n .Lotus Notes (see Dragon Help)
n OpenOffice.org Writer (see Dragon Help)
n Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
Note
A list of global commands appears if there is no list of specific commands
available for a specific program.
The Dragon Sidebar tabs
You can use the Dragon Sidebar to review examples of speech commands in
your current program or task. The contents of the Sidebar update automatically
as you change applications. See Dragon Sidebar Help and Tips contexts for
details.
The Sidebar displays tabs across the top that you can click for the most popular
commands for your current task. Click the following links for details about the
tabs:
n Home tab
n Global tab
n Mouse tab
n MyCommands tab
Click the green subheadings in the Sidebar to follow links to Help topics about
how to use voice commands with your programs.
See Using the Dragon Sidebar for more information.
Home tab
Use the Home tab to review examples of voice commands for programs with
Full Text Control. Below is an example of what you'll see if you're working in
Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. If you're working in Microsoft Outlook
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