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Accessing a specific item on a Web page ............................................................................................................ 70
Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for E-mail ............................................................................................................ 72
Shortcut commands.................................................................................................................................................. 72
Commands for your installed email program ........................................................................................................ 73
Web-based email and the Dragon extension ....................................................................................................... 75
Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Word ...................................................................................................... 77
“Voice Notations” in Microsoft Word documents .................................................................................................. 77
Commands specific to Microsoft Word .................................................................................................................. 77
The Ribbon ................................................................................................................................................................ 78
Microsoft Word 2010 and 2013............................................................................................................................... 78
Dictating and editing in Microsoft Excel ................................................................................................................... 80
Boosting Productivity with Custom Commands ....................................................................................................... 83
Creating boilerplate commands (“Text-and-Graphics” type) .............................................................................. 83
“Cloning” commands and adding variables .......................................................................................................... 85
“DragonTemplates”: boilerplate commands with fields ....................................................................................... 85
Managing custom commands ................................................................................................................................. 86
Finding commands: the Keyword Filter ................................................................................................................. 87
Performing Audio Checks and Acoustic Training .................................................................................................... 89
The Microphone Check ............................................................................................................................................ 89
Training in isolation ................................................................................................................................................... 89
Reading text to train Dragon ................................................................................................................................... 90
Using Multiple Vocabularies (editions Professional and up) ................................................................................... 92
Opening a Vocabulary.............................................................................................................................................. 94
Acoustic and Language Model Optimization ........................................................................................................... 96
Launching the Acoustic and/or Language Model Optimization .......................................................................... 96
Scheduling optimization and Data Collection ....................................................................................................... 97
Renaming, Deleting, Copying or Transferring a Profile ......................................................................................... 101
Practice Exercise: Creating a Memo by Voice ...................................................................................................... 103
What’s New in Version 13.0? ................................................................................................................................ 104
What’s New in Version 12.0? ................................................................................................................................ 106
What’s New in Version 11.5? ................................................................................................................................ 112
What’s New in Version 11.0? ................................................................................................................................ 113
Index ...................................................................................................................................................................... 117