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Learning More and Getting Help

Dragon offers so many tools, commands, and features that it would be impossible to cover them all in this

workbook. This lesson presents ways to find more information as you start using the software—take advantage of

the available resources!

Please see the card that comes in the Dragon box. It includes important notes about installing Dragon as well as

sample lists of commands and what you can say to dictate special characters, times, dates, postal codes and

more. (The latest printable documentation is available for download on the Nuance website.)

The Accuracy Center

The most important features of Dragon are accessible directly from the DragonBar's menus. The Accuracy Center

offers a central location to access many of them and get guidance on which one to use when.

Step 1: Say Open Accuracy Center. You can also click the Help menu, or say Switch to DragonBar then Click

Help then Improve my Accuracy.

Step 2: Click the link that interests you. You can also say its name immediately preceded by the word "click”.

("Require 'click' for HTML" is an option enabled by default, to help prevent unintended recognitions. See the

Commands tab of the Options dialog.)

TIP: You can activate links without saying their whole name: for instance, instead of “click add a list of words to

your vocabulary”, you could say just “click add a list”.

The Help

The DragonBar’s Help menu gives you access to the on-screen Help topics (articles).

Another way to open the Help is saying open help. Note: like in search engines, you can indicate phrases by

putting quotation marks around them.

To launch a Help search at any time (no matter what is active on your screen), you can use the shortcut

command “search Help for…” naming the word(s) to find. For instance, you could say “search Help for Firefox”.

Note that the search keywords you name in this command will be considered individually unless you put them in

quotes: for instance, “Search Help for open-quote Dictation box close-quote.”

Dragon also provides contextual help: from its dialog boxes, a Help button, question-mark, or link take you directly

to the relevant article in the Help.

The What Can I Say command