8.0
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Training
- Starting to Dictate
- Working on your Desktop
- Programs, documents and folders
- Switching between open windows
- Opening and closing menus
- Selecting buttons, tabs, and options
- Selecting icons on the desktop
- Resizing and closing windows
- Scrolling in windows and list boxes
- Opening lists and making selections
- Pressing keyboard keys
- Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouse
- 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
- Working with Applications
- Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special Characters
- Using the Command Browser
- Improving Accuracy
- Managing Users
- Setting Up Roaming Users
- Using Portable Recorders (Preferred and Professional)
- Automate Your Work (Preferred and Professional)
- Customizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
- Version 8 File Structure
- MSI Installation Options
- Index
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Improving Accuracy
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Changing word properties
You can use the Vocabulary Editor to change the formatting properties of a word,
For example, you can change whether Dragon NaturallySpeaking should type a
space before or after the word, or whether the word should be capitalized when used
in a title. For complete information on this feature, see the online help.
To change the properties of a word:
1 From the Accuracy Center, click or say “View or edit your vocabulary.” You can
also click View/Edit on the Words menu on the DragonBar. The Vocabulary
Editor displays.
2 Find the word whose properties you want to modify and select it,
3 Click the Properties button to open the Word Properties dialog box. The
Property column lists the different possible properties for a word, namely, the
spacing, capitalization, and other ways a word behaves when it is recognized and
printed in your document.
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4 Click OK to close the Word Properties dialog box.
5 Click Close to close the Vocabulary Editor.
For more information on word properties, see the Dragon NaturallySpeaking online
Help.
The word whose
properties you are
editing.
Click on the word
property you want in
the Properties
column.
The Example column
lists example words
for each Property.