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Opening and Closing Programs and Windows

To close the active window, you can say click close.

To start a program by voice, you can say start (or open) immediately followed by the name of the application.

For instance, start DragonPad, open Internet Explorer, start Notepad, start Paint, or start Windows

Explorer.

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Do you need to say "start Word", "start Microsoft Word" or "start Microsoft Office Word 2007"? In the Start

Menu (on your Windows taskbar), look in Programs. Some programs require clicking a series of submenus.

Whatever the final submenu is called is the name Dragon may expect (except for popular applications listed in

the Help; for these, shorter names are supported). If you find the listed name inconvenient, you can create a

shortcut to the application and rename that shortcut to something easy; once you have done that, you can also

use the easier name to open the application.

Similarly, you can open any item you see on your desktop (including files and folders): just say open followed

by its name. For instance, to open an item called “winter projects”, you could say open winter projects. (Here

too, it’s helpful to have easily recognizable names!)

To open the Windows Start menu, say click Start or click Start menu (this and other menus can be navigated

by voice, as you will see).

Resizing Windows and Switching Between Them

To minimize an active window, say click minimize or minimize window (the window remains on your screen,

minimized as a taskbar icon). To maximize (enlarge to fit the screen) an active window, say click maximize.

If several windows are open on your computer, you can change which one is active and in the foreground in

several ways:

Say list all windows then say (or press) the number of the desired window. Note that, particularly if •

many windows are open, you may wish to specify an application, by saying list windows for

<application>, for instance: list windows for Internet Explorer.)