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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
- 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 (Preferred edition only)
- 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 (Available in Preferred edition only)
- Working with your desktop and windows
- E-mail commands
- 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 6
Numbers and Punctuation
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
76
Dictating uncommon special characters
If you use uncommon special characters in your writing (for example, a
double-dagger sign ‡), you can enter them by voice using the Spell
command. If you use a special character frequently, you can also add it as
a new word using the Vocabulary Editor™. This section explains how to
do this.
To dictate a special character:
1 Just say “Spell”plus the name of the character. For example, if you want
to enter a double-dagger sign (‡) into your document, say “Spell double
dagger.”
For the complete list of special characters and their names, see the
Special Characters topic in the online Help and the following sections in
the Appendix:
■ “Publishing symbols” on page 223
■ “Accented and international characters” on page 226
■ “Mathematical symbols” on page 226
■ “Currency symbols” on page 224
To add a special character to the vocabulary:
If you frequently want to dictate a double-dagger sign (‡) into your
document, you could add “double dagger” as a new word in the Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
®
vocabulary. Follow these steps:
1 In your document, dictate the phrase you want to use to enter the special
character (for example, say “double dagger”). Dragon NaturallySpeaking
®
enters the words into your document. In this example, it would enter
“double dagger.”
2 Say “Spell That” to open the Spell dialog box.