11.5

Step 1: Open the Dragon Sidebar. Voice commands for this include open Dragon Sidebar, show Dragon

Sidebar, and what can I say. You can also use the DragonBar’s Help menu.

Step 2: Explore the Sidebar and adjust it to suit your preferences. You can make it very thin (doing so may hide

some of its content, such as the top-right icons). If you don’t need to use mouse commands, we suggest

hiding its Mouse tab.

Note: One way to access details about the Sidebar is to use its question mark icon (in the top right

corner). You can also say a search-keyword command such as search Dragon Help for Sidebar

commands.

Step 3: Practice activating the Sidebar’s links and tabs by hand or by voice. To access the tabs by voice, you

can say Dragon Sidebar Home, Dragon Sidebar Global, and Dragon Sidebar MyCommands.

TIP To see commands beyond those presented in the Sidebar, you can access the Help: use the command

“search Dragon Help for…” or the speakable links in the Sidebar itself. You can also use the Command

Browser, accessible from its icon on the Sidebar and with commands such as open Command Browser. Below is

a Command Browser screenshot showing commands for the Sidebar.

Step 4: Right-click the Dragon Sidebar. This opens its menu. Note what is available there, including hiding the

Mouse tab, hiding the Tips pane, setting the Sidebar to be Floating rather than Docked, activating

Auto-Hide, and printing the content.

TIP When a Sidebar pane has the focus, a thick blue line surrounds it.

The illustration below shows the Mouse tab and one of the Help articles related to mouse usage.