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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Installing and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- Correcting and Editing
- Formatting
- Capitalizing text
- Capitalizing the first letter of the next word you dictate
- Capitalizing consecutive words
- Dictating the next word in all capital letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all capital letters
- Dictating the next word in all lowercase letters
- Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters
- Capitalizing (or uncapitalizing) text already in your document
- Formatting text
- Capitalizing text
- Numbers and Punctuation
- Using E-Mail and Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Using Natural Language Commands
- Available Natural Language Commands
- The Sample Commands window
- The Command Browser
- Sample Commands
- Copying, moving, cutting, pasting, and deleting command samples
- Formatting command samples
- Spelling, grammar, and printing sample command samples
- Table sample command samples
- Microsoft Excel command samples
- Microsoft Outlook sample commands
- Microsoft PowerPoint sample commands
- America Online sample commands
- Hands-Free Computing
- Starting programs
- Opening documents and folders
- Switching between open windows
- Copying text to other programs
- Opening and closing menus
- Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
- Selecting icons on the desktop
- Resizing and closing windows
- Scrolling in windows and listboxes
- Pressing keyboard keys
- Activating commands by saying key names
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- Hands-free tips
- Automate Your Work
- Workflow
- Speaking and Dictating
- Improving Accuracy
- Healthy Computing
- Using a Handheld Recorder
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Troubleshooting
- Commands List
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Controlling the microphone
- Controlling the DragonBar
- Controlling the DragonPad
- Adding paragraphs, lines, and spaces
- Selecting text
- Correcting text
- Deleting and undoing
- Moving around in a document
- Copying, cutting, and pasting text
- Capitalizing text
- Formatting text
- Entering numbers
- Entering punctuation and special characters
- Playing back and reading text
- Working with your desktop and windows
- E-mail commands
- Using Lotus Notes
- Using Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Working hands-free
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Which commands work in which programs?
- Index
CHAPTER 9
Hands-Free Computing
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 123
Hands-free tips
Here are some more tips on how to best work by voice if you have
limited use of your hands.
■ For some people, clicking the mouse button by hand is very
uncomfortable, but moving the mouse by hand is easier. In this case,
move the mouse by hand but click the mouse using the voice
commands “Mouse Click,” “Mouse Right Click,” and “Mouse Double
Click.”
■ When using MouseGrid
™
, you can still say mouse motion
commands. This makes it convenient to position the mouse using
the grid, then start a drag operation from there.
■ The command “Start” starts programs and documents on any level
of the Windows
®
Start menu.
■ If you have no or minimal hand use, set Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
so that the microphone is on (sleeping) when the program starts. For
instructions on how to do this, see the Startup/Shutdown tab of the
Options dialog box, described on page 210.
■ To move around the Start menu, the Windows
®
desktop, and many
other parts of the computer, use the “Move” commands. You can say
“Move Up 4,” for example, which acts like pressing the up arrow key
four times. You can say “Move Up,” “Move Down,” “Move Right,” and
“Move Left,” plus a number between 1 and 20. You must say a
number to make this command work.
■ In the Windows
®
Start menu, the “Move” commands are the easiest
way to activate Shut Down, Logoff, Help, Run, Find, and Settings.
For example, to use Find, say “Click Start,” “Move Up 5,” then “Press
Enter Key” (if, on your computer, Find is the fifth item from the
bottom of the Start Menu).
■ Create custom commands to automate tasks that you do repeatedly.
See “Automate Your Work” on page 125.
■ Set up Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
to start automatically when
Windows
®
starts.
You can also use Natural Language Commands to shut down your computer,
including “Shut Down Windows,” “Restart Windows,” “Reboot The Computer,” “Log Off
Windows,” and more.
NOTE