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Key points about controlling your computer by voice
 At any time, no matter what is visible, you can open a Start menu or desktop item by saying start, launch,
show or open immediately followed by the name of the item. In version 12, these two powerful
capabilities can each be disabled or enabled from the Options dialog.
 You can switch between windows with commands like switch to WordPad and list windows for Dragon.
 To click menus, buttons, and other controls, you can “say what you see” (you can choose to say “click”
right before, or not).
 By default, Dragon 12 requires the word ‘click’ just before the name of menus as well as the name of
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 voice-clicking Send in an email. Dragon offers a similar
“Require ‘Click’” option for HTML links. See the Commands tab of the Options dialog.
 You can “voice-press” one or more keys by saying press or type followed by the name of the key(s).
 Dragon offers “shortcut commands” to search your computer for items containing the keyword(s) you
specify. (These commands take advantage of indexing software which must be running on your computer).
For instance, to find all indexed e-mails containing the words “Canada” and “budget”, you could say
search email for Canada budget.
 If it detected that your PC’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 More Commands button near the
bottom.)