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 Full Edit: To edit the existing contents of a cell. Select the cell and say "Edit Cell" or "Press F2" to open

the cell for editing; the insertion point is automatically placed at the end of the cell. As you dictate, the

background changes to blue. Commands such as "New Line" operate within the cell.

TIP: To quickly enter a predictable series of values, such as days or months, you can use commands such as

“Monday through Friday across” or “July through December down.”

Full Text Control in Quick Edits

You will want to practice entering data into a spreadsheet and navigate around the spreadsheet and within cells,

as well as dictate and correct text using commands like “correct <xyz>” (see Full Text Control, called Select-

and-Say in previous versions).

For the exercise below, the content of the spreadsheet is not important.

Step 1: Open Excel, say open document and locate

the relevant .xls file – or use a blank file.

Step 2: Say move to cell C7 (or Charlie seven.)

Step 3: Dictate your full name into the cell.

As you dictate, the cell background turns pale yellow,

indicating that Dragon is doing a Quick Edit.

Let’s practice correcting recognition errors so Dragon can learn from them:

Step 1: Say move to cell C 13 (or Charlie 13). Dictate some text that is likely to contain unknown words, such

as: “Travel to Ashtabula to provide support for Sporkatron, Inc.”

Step 2: Correct one of the recognition errors. (Leave the remaining errors as they are, so you can practice

coming back to this cell and correcting them later.)

Step 3: Say move down one to go to cell C14. Dictate some additional text that is likely to contain new words,

such as: “related to last week’s trip to Kenmawr—training Moosehart Insurance”

Now that you are out of the cell, practice going back to it and correcting the error(s) in it.

Step 1: Say move up one to move back to cell C13. Say a “correct <xyz>” command to correct another of the

errors Dragon made. Notice that the cell again turns yellow.

Continue correcting the text until it is accurate.

Step 2: Say apply. You are no longer in Quick Edit mode; the cell you were editing is still selected.