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Step 4: On the Add Documents box, click Add Document. On the resulting window, locate and select the

relevant document(s), then click Open.

TIP You can select multiple files at once by holding

down the Ctrl key or by pressing Ctrl A (the Windows

keyboard shortcut to “select all”).

Dragon will now analyze the text contained in the designated documents. This may take a moment—if

there is a lot of text to analyze, you should run this tool when you do NOT need to use Dragon for

something else. Once Dragon indicates that the analysis is complete, click Next.

Dragon will then present you with a list of the “unknown” words it found, with a checkbox next to each

one, and the number of times each word was encountered (the words found most frequently are

presented at the top since they are most likely to be relevant, unlike those that only occurred a few

times.)

Step 5: Uncheck items you do NOT wish to add (using the Uncheck All button typically saves time).

TIP This list may include capitalized forms of common words; these are usually better left out of the

Vocabulary since you can always say “cap” before a word, but you may want to include them in a

phrase entry, such as ‘Senior Technical Trainer’ (remember, it’s a good idea to add to the Vocabulary

the phrases you like to see capitalized).

If you wish to modify an item (to make it lowercase, or expand on it, for instance) or you wish to give

a spoken form to an item, highlight it then click or say Edit. This button opens the Edit Word window,

which also presents a little context for the item.

Before the words are added, you are given the option to provide acoustic training for them. Feel free

to take this opportunity to pronounce them, but know that you can skip this step and provide training

later just for those words that seem to need it, as explained in this workbook and in the Help.