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TIP To close an open menu, you can just say cancel or press Escape (equivalent to pressing the Esc key at

the top left of your keyboard).

If you use Office 2007, familiarize yourself with the “Ribbon” and its ScreenTips (revealing the item’s name),

Quick Access Toolbar, and KeyTips (the new display of keyboard shortcuts). Note: to click the Office Button

(the equivalent to the File menu of earlier Office versions) by voice, say "click Office button".

Note: With Office 2010, Microsoft introduced some changes to the applications’ interface—in particular, it

introduced the File Tab. The other tabs can be accessed by voice by just saying their name, but for the File

Tab you must say “file tab” or “click file tab”. With Office 2013, Microsoft also made some interface

modifications. For details on support for Office 2010 and 2013, please see the resources on www.nuance.com

and the Help. (Remember that you can search Dragon’s Help directly by naming search keywords in a command

such as “search Dragon help for open quote office 2010 close quote.”)

TIP By default, some Microsoft applications show only the most used menu items. For optimal voice usage,

consider changing this default. (This may be located in the application’s Tools menu: open the Customize

dialog and check the box “Always show full menus.”)

In addition to menus, Windows program interfaces may contain controls such as buttons, checkboxes, tabs, and

radio buttons. How do you access these by voice? You guessed it: “say what you see” (preceded by “click” if

required).

IMPORTANT

 Dragon 12 lets you require the word “click” before the names of menus independently from buttons and

other interface controls.

 By default, Dragon 12 requires the word ‘click’ before the name of menus as well as buttons and other

controls: for instance, for a button labeled OK, you would say click OK. (This can be useful to prevent

unintended actions such as the voice-clicking of Send in email.) Dragon offers a similar “Require ‘Click’”

option for HTML links, which applies to hyperlinks in supported Web browsers as well as in the Tutorial,

Sidebar, and Accuracy Center. See the Commands tab of the Options dialog.