12.0

The Dragon Sidebar: “What Can I Say”

At any time, you can ask Dragon to display its Sidebar, a resizable vertical window meant to help users discover

and remember important tips and commands. (It can be made very thin.)

If a major application such as Microsoft Word is active, the Sidebar’s first tab will show commands for that

application. Otherwise, it will show a list of commands that are not specific to one application (Global

commands).

The Sidebar also contains a hideable tab for mouse commands (dragging, clicking, etc.), as well as a tab for

custom-created commands (a feature of the editions Premium and higher). In addition, in its top right corner

are icons to open important resources: the Command Browser, Vocabulary Editor, Options dialog, and Help.

CAUTION: By default, the Dragon Sidebar is set to open automatically when your user profile opens, and in

Dragon 12.0 it is docked to the right; this means that, if you typically keep desktop items on the right edge of

your screen, the Sidebar may move them (as other Windows sidebars would) and therefore disturb your icons’

arrangement. Therefore, if you have Dragon 12.0, you may wish to rearrange those desktop items before the

Sidebar opens, or set your desktop to Auto-arrange. NOTE: in Dragon 12.5, the default setting is Floating, not

docked; this means that the Sidebar may cover part of the currently-active window, but it avoids disturbing the

arrangement of desktop icons.

The illustrations in this chapter show the Sidebar in various widths, its right-click menu (including the monitor

switch for those who have two monitors) and its Mouse tab alongside one of its linked Help articles.