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This workbook presents several of Dragon’s dialog boxes, which often contain controls labeled Cancel, Yes, No,

or OK. As you follow the instructions and perform the exercises in each chapter, you may wish to take the

opportunity to practice accessing the controls by voice.

Exercise 1: Previous lessons introduced you to the Options dialog box; we will use this dialog box to

practice accessing buttons, tabs, and other interface controls.

1. Open Dragon’s Options dialog, then its View tab.

2. Select and unselect the radio buttons and checkboxes for the DragonBar.

3. Restore the defaults.

IMPORTANT : Dragon lets you disable its ability to “track” the name of interface controls, in all programs or

just in programs of your choice: see the checkbox and drop-down list “Voice-enable menus, buttons and other

controls” on the Miscellaneous tab of the Options dialog.

“Natural Language Commands” and the Command Browser

Dragon comes with large sets of commands that let you order actions directly and in a natural manner, instead of

going through menus, submenus, and dialog boxes: for instance, saying “Insert Page Break” in Microsoft Word

2003 instead of opening the “Insert” menu, then choosing the submenu “Break”, then the option “Page Break.”

Dragon’s Learning Center contains a sampling of these commands when they are available (and if your edition

supports them). As you will notice, command names tend to describe the action, starting with the verb then the

object.

 To read about the commands for a specific application, open the Help (you can say give me help or

show Help topics) or launch a Help search directly with a command such as “search Dragon Help for

Internet Explorer commands.” You can also jump to relevant Help topics directly from the Learning

Center’s hyperlinks.

 To see all the commands and their variations (optional words, alternate words, etc.), open the Command

Browser and use its Context list and Keyword Filter box to display just the commands that contain a

particular word or words and are active in a particular application. When you see in the list a command