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Dragon’s Learning Center presents a sampling of these commands when they are available (and if your edition

supports them). As you will notice, command names tend to describe the desired action, starting with the verb.

 To read about the commands for a specific application, open the Help (you can say give me help or

show Help topics) or launch a Help search directly with a command such as “search Dragon Help for

Internet Explorer commands.” You can also jump to relevant Help topics directly from the Learning

Center’s hyperlinks.

 To see all the commands and their variations (optional words, alternate words, etc.), open the Command

Browser and use its Context list and Keyword Filter box to display just the commands that contain a

particular word or words and are active in a particular application. When you see in the list a command

that looks interesting, make sure it’s highlighted in the list then use the links on the Command Browser’s

menu to show all its wordings (for instance, to include all optional words or to expand ellipses).

IMPORTANT: If it detected that your PC’s resources would not allow it to perform with both speed and

accuracy, Dragon may have disabled its Natural Language Command sets for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and

WordPerfect. If speed is not a priority for you and you wish to use Natural Language Commands in one or all of

these applications, enable them via the Option dialog’s Commands tab. (See the More Commands button near

the bottom.)

Note that if you enable the Natural Language Commands for Microsoft Word, for instance, Dragon’s speed may

decrease within Microsoft Word (or Microsoft Outlook using Word as its editor).

“Voice-pressing” keys

At times, you may wish to use your voice to press a key or key combination on your keyboard.

Common accelerator keys for Windows operating systems include: Esc to close a window, Enter to active the

item which has the focus, Tab to move the focus forward, and Shift Tab to move the focus backward. Most

buttons, menus and checkboxes have an underlined letter in their label: you can activate them by pressing the

underlined letter (if underlines are not visible, press Alt first.) For keyboard shortcuts specific to a particular

application, search the application’s Help or the Internet.

Dragon lets you “voice-type” keys on your keyboard. Just say press or type followed by the name of the key(s):

any letter or number, but also Page Up, Home, Enter, Tab, Caps Lock, F2, Control, Alt, Shift, Windows... For

instance:

Say press spacebar to select or unselect a checkbox.

Say press F5 or press Function 5 to refresh the view.

Say press Alt e to “click” a control labeled with an underlined ‘e’.

Say press Control f to open the Find field in most applications.

Say press Escape to “escape” out of a window.

Say press Alt Down to open a drop-down list.

Say press Windows D to show the desktop

Note: To undo a keystroke, you can say undo that.