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Say select in through week.  The words “in Boston for a few days next week” are highlighted.3)

Say in your area on Tuesday.  The sentence should now read “I will be in your area on Tuesday…”

Let’s say we now want to add a few words inside this paragraph.

Observe the insertion point’s current position. Say insert after dinner, then say if you have time.4)

Say insert before exclamation mark (observe the move), then say comma I hope. 5)

TIP

If, after doing some editing in your text, you need to remove trailing white space, you can use commands

such as backspace or delete next character for a single space. A good trick is saying backspace combined

with a number: backspace 5 is like pressing the backspace key 5 times.

Dragon’s many selection and navigation commands can help you quickly edit text—whether or not this text was

created by voice. Below is another exercise, to be performed entirely by voice, but remember that for optimal

productivity in daily work, you can use a combination of voice and keyboard/mouse.

Exercise 2: Look at the following text, dictate it, then edit it by voice as described below.

Dear Ms. Cooper,

It was nice meeting you Tuesday. I think you have some good ideas about the Johnson project! Let’s get the

team focused on this project by February. When you have time, could you write up your comments and email

them to me? I would really appreciate it.

Edit the first sentence so it reads "meeting with you last Tuesday".•

Edit the second sentence so it reads "You have some great ideas".•

Edit the third sentence so it reads "on this important project".•

Edit the third sentence so it reads "by early February", and insert a blank line after it.•

Change the fourth sentence to “Could you please write up your notes and email them to me ASAP?”•

Edit the salutation, changing "Ms. Cooper" to "Allison".•

Edit the last sentence, removing "really", and add a closing line of "Sincerely, Susan Martinez".•

Which commands did you find most useful in each situation?

Key points about editing text by voice

You can use Dragon to edit a document by voice whether the document was dictated or typed.

The editing commands can address small or large amounts of text, even several paragraphs or the 

entire document (select all).