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TIP: In cases where you want the content to match the formatting of what preceded it in your document,

check the Plain Text checkbox.

Step 6: Once the command is named, edited, described, grouped, and formatted as you want it, click Save.

Now let’s test your command. Say start DragonPad, then say your command’s name. (Follow the usual rule: you

must pause before and after, but not in the middle!)

You may realize now that you could make your command even more convenient: for instance, by adding a blank

line at the top so your pasted content automatically starts as a new paragraph. A section below explains how to

edit a custom command.

“Cloning” commands and adding variables

Instead of making a command from scratch, you can create a new command based on the “clone” of an existing

one, by clicking New Copy on the Command Browser (or the Create New button on the MyCommands Editor.)

In addition, the MyCommands Editor’s Name Editor allows the inclusion of <variables> in your command

names. Variable names provide flexibility (so you can use synonyms instead of just one wording) and can make

your custom commands even more useful, by letting them perform variations on the same action.

The variables can be synonyms, or they

can be different values, such as

numbers from 1 to 10.

<1to10> is one of the pre-filled lists

available through the Name Editor, but

you can also make your own (as was

done for <hq_nuance> in this lesson’s

illustrations).

See the Help for details.

“DragonTemplates”: boilerplate commands with fields

(Higher editions only) Dragon lets you easily paste a template containing voice-fillable fields.

To create a field in a command’s body, click the Insert Field button below it. By default, each field appears

between square brackets as "[default value]". (If you prefer delimiters other than square brackets, you can

indicate that in the Commands tab of the Options dialog.)

After saying the command name, which pastes the “DragonTemplate”, you can:

 type or dictate a specific value in each placeholder —> The placeholder is overwritten, and delimiters

are removed.