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Now that Dragon is in Numbers mode, you can:

• dictate numbers and punctuation (hyphen, dollar sign…). For decimal point, say dot or point.

• say new line, new paragraph and space

• say move up|down|left|right <number> to move the focus in your document’s lines or cells.

If it hears anything else, Dragon shows “Did you say some number?” in the DragonBar message area.

Step 2: To resume regular dictation, you can say switch to normal mode, or click W

ords, Normal Mode.

Spell Mode -- Dictating Letters, Digits, and Other Characters

The Spell Mode is very useful for dictating character sequences which don’t form pronounceable words, as is

often the case for part numbers, license plate numbers, codes… (It’s also useful for spelling out terms which

you anticipate Dragon won’t know, such as words in a foreign language or unusual product names.)

Step 1: Say Spell Mode on or Switch to Spell Mode. The DragonBar will indicate that Spell Mode is on.

o You can now dictate characters, including letters, digits, and symbols, as well as spacebar.

o To capitalize a letter, say cap immediately followed by the letter.

o As in Numbers Mode, you can use the move <direction> <number> commands to navigate, and

say space. Dragon will not automatically add spaces as it usually does.

o You cannot use new line or new paragraph, but you can say press Enter.

Step 2: You can return to normal dictating by voice (Spell Mode off…) or by hand (W

ords menu> Normal Mode).

TIP The Help topic “Spelling Characters” contains the list of possible pronunciations, including the alpha-

bravo-charlie alphabet and accented characters like “n tilde” and “alpha umlaut”. When spelling out, you can

also say “oh” instead of “zero”.

The Spell Command -- Dictating a sequence of characters

IMPORTANT

If you need to dictate a sequence of characters in the middle of normal dictation, the Spell

command is usually faster than switching in and out of Spell mode: while in Normal Mode, you can say “Spell”

immediately

followed by a sequence of characters (digits, letters, symbols, and space or spacebar). See the

Help for details.

This can also be useful in cases where you want to put on the screen a word that would normally be

interpreted as a symbol or a command. For instance, if you wanted to be sure that Dragon types the word

“comma” instead of the punctuation, you could say “Spell space C O M M A”.

Exercise 7: Dictate “access code: 75Zq/7”, then practice with similar sequences of your choice. (Pause briefly

after the colon, then say “Spell 7 5 cap zee cue slash 7”. Try to not pause at all during the sequence; if you

paused, just resume by saying Spell immediately followed by the rest of your sequence.)