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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. 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 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.)