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Key points about the Vocabulary Editor and Properties

 You can access the Vocabulary Editor with a command like edit vocabulary, through the Accuracy

Center, or through the Vocabulary menu of the DragonBar.

 In the Vocabulary Editor, custom-added entries are marked with a red plus sign; choosing Custom

Words Only from the Display drop-down list allows you to see just the custom entries.

 You can locate an item by entering it in the Search field (enter either the Written form or the Spoken

form). By using the Display drop-down list, you can also browse subsets like “Custom words only” and

“Words containing punctuation.”

 Spoken Forms are an efficient way to help Dragon transcribe “special words.” You can view many

examples of Spoken Forms in the Vocabulary Editor. In addition to clarifying pronunciation (particularly

useful for items that contain digits, symbols, or silent letters), Spoken Forms can be used to allow the

speaker to say something quite different, and much shorter and easier, than their associated written form:

you say just “E O B stat”, for instance, and Dragon types “Explanation of Benefit (EOB) statement.”

 If a Vocabulary entry you don’t need “competes” for recognition with something you do need to dictate,

you can delete that entry from the Vocabulary Editor (for instance, Cassidy and Cassity). To see the

words that have been deleted from the vocabulary, you can choose “Deleted words only” from the Display

drop-down list.

 You can view or change the special Properties of Vocabulary entries, including spacing and

capitalization. For instance, you may wish to change whether Dragon uses the spelling “travelled” or

“traveled”, whether the ellipsis (dot dot dot) and the Dictation Command “new line” trigger capitalization of

the next word…