11.5

1. Open Dragon’s Options dialog, then its View tab.

2. Select and unselect the radio buttons and checkboxes for the DragonBar.

3. Restore the defaults.

“Natural Language Commands” and the Command Browser

Dragon comes with large sets of commands that let you order actions directly and in a natural manner, instead

of going through menus, submenus, and dialog boxes: for instance, saying “Insert Page Break” in Microsoft

Word 2003 instead of opening the “Insert” menu, then choosing the submenu “Break”, then the option “Page

Break”.

Dragon’s Sidebar contains a sampling of these commands when they are available (and if your edition supports

them). As you will notice, Dragon’s command names tend to describe the action, starting with the verb, then

the object. Given that Dragon has so many commands, with many possible wordings, you can try saying what

you want to do -- and if you get unexpected results, say "Undo that".

 To read about the commands for a specific application, open the Help (you can say give me help or

show Help topics), or launch a Help search directly with a command such as “search Dragon Help for

Internet Explorer commands.” You can also jump to relevant Help topics directly from the Sidebar’s

hyperlinks.

 To see all the commands and their variations (optional words, alternate words, etc.), open the

Command Browser and use its Context list and Keyword Filter box to display just the commands that

contain a particular word or words and are active in a particular application. When you see in the list a

command that looks interesting, make sure it’s highlighted in the list then use the links on the

Command Browser’s menu to expose its full wordings (for instance, to include all optional words or to

expand ellipses.)

IMPORTANT: If it detected that your computer’s resources would not allow it to perform with both speed

and accuracy, Dragon may have disabled its Natural Language Command sets for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and

WordPerfect. If speed is not a priority for you, and you wish to use Natural Language Commands in one or all

of these applications, enable them via the Option dialog’s Commands tab. (See the Natural Language

Commands button near the bottom.)

Note that if you enable the Natural Language Commands for Microsoft Word, for instance, Dragon’s speed may

decrease within Microsoft Word (or Microsoft Outlook using Word as its editor).