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Note: Dragon’s active Vocabulary comes with literally thousands of entries. As you browse the Vocabulary

Editor, you will see many you are very unlikely to ever about what you are dictate, but don’t spend time

deleting them unless they actually cause a conflict!

There’s more you can do in the Vocabulary Editor! For instance, by clicking its Properties button, you open the

Word Properties dialog, where you can view or change the capitalization, spacing and numeral properties of an

entry.

IMPORTANT Use the Word Properties dialog to modify the Dictation Command “new line” if you want it to

trigger capitalization of the following word. (See the lesson Starting to Dictate.) Similarly, you can set the

ellipsis (dot dot dot) to NOT trigger capitalization of the next word.

In the Word Properties dialog box, you

can also choose one or even two

alternate written forms.

For example, you may want:

the spelling “colour” instead of

“color”,

the spelling “email” instead of the

hyphenated “e-mail”,

the abbreviation “fig.” instead of

the word “figure” just before

numbers, as in “fig. 3”,

the title Professor instead of its

abbreviation.

The Help contains more details. In

particular, take a look at the Help

topics “The Vocabulary Editor Dialog

Box,” “Deleting words,” and “The Word

Properties dialog box.”