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Say six o’clock. Æ The sentence should now read “We could meet at your office at 6:00.”

3) Say select in through week. Æ The words “in Boston for a few days next week” are highlighted.

Say in your area on Tuesday. Æ The sentence should now read “I will be in your area on Tuesday…”

Let’s say we now want to add a few words inside this paragraph.

4) Observe the insertion point’s current position. Say insert after dinner, then say if you have time.

5) Say insert before exclamation mark (observe the move), then say comma I hope.

TIP If, after doing some editing in your text, you need to remove trailing white space, you can use commands

such as backspace or delete next character for a single space. A good trick is saying backspace combined

with a number: backspace 5 is like pressing the backspace key 5 times.

Dragon’s many selection and navigation commands can help you quickly edit text—whether or not this text was

created by voice.

Here is another exercise. Perform it entirely by voice, but remember that for optimal productivity in daily

work, you can use a combination of voice and keyboard/mouse.

Exercise 2: Look at the following text, dictate it, then edit it as described below.

Dear Ms. Cooper,

It was nice meeting you Tuesday. I think you have some good ideas about the Johnson project! Let’s get the team focused on

this project by February. When you have time, could you write up your comments and email them to me? I would really

appreciate it.

• Edit the first sentence so it reads "meeting with you last Tuesday".

• Edit the second sentence so it reads "Y

ou have some great ideas".

• Edit the third sentence so it reads "on this important

project".

• Edit the third sentence so it reads "by early

February", and insert a blank line after it.

• Change the fourth sentence to “Could you please write up your notes and email them to me ASAP?”

• Edit the salutation, changing "Ms. Cooper" to "Allison".

• Edit the last sentence, removing "really", and add a closing line of "Sincerely, Susan Martinez".

Which commands did you find most useful in each situation?

Key points about editing text by voice

9 You can use Dragon to edit a document by voice whether that document was originally dictated or

typed.

9 The editing commands can address small or large amounts of text, even several paragraphs or the

entire document (select all).