10.0

Formatting Text by Voice

Whether text was originally dictated or typed, Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you use your voice to control font

(Arial, Courier…), font style (bold, underline…), font size, alignment (center, right-align…), color, and more.

The "X that" Convention

Dragon has many commands to tell the computer to perform a certain action on a certain item. Many are

phrased as "X that", with X being a verb for the desired action: for instance, italicize that and delete that.

(Remember, for commands to be recognized, you must pause before and after but not in the middle.)

When Dragon hears an "X that" command, it decides what “that” is as follows

1) If anything on the screen is highlighted (whether by voice or by hand), Dragon performs the action on

that selection. (It can be one or more characters or words.)

2) If nothing is highlighted, Dragon performs the action on whatever you dictated since you last paused—in

n other words, the contents of the Results box, the “last utterance

”.

Note: In Dragon’s commands, you can say “the selection” instead of “that”.

Dragon's "X that" formatting commands include:

Cap that – capitalizes the first letter of each word in the segment (e.g. Water Management)

ALL CAPS that – capitalizes all the letters of each word in the segment (e.g. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT)

no caps that – puts in lowercase all the letters of each word in the segment (e.g. american express)

delete that (Dragon Version 10 also lets you do this as “delete <xyz>”)

scratch that

bold that, italicize that, underline that (Version 10 also lets you do this as “<verb> <xyz>”)

restore that – removes all bold/italics/underline formatting from the segment

left-align that, right-align that, center that, justify that

copy that (Version 10 also lets you do this as “copy <xyz>”)

cut that (Version 10 also offers “cut <xyz>”)

paste that

hyphenate that – puts hyphens in the spaces within the segment

compound that – removes spaces between words in the segment

bullet that (make sure you are familiar with how your particular application handles bullet points)

TIP You can repeat delete that or scratch that to delete the last utterances you said. You can also say

scratch that 3 times, scratch that 8 times, etc.