10.0

Controlling the Operating System and Applications

Dragon NaturallySpeaking can do much more than type and format your dictated text: it lets you start

programs, open desktop items, switch between open windows, maximize or minimize windows, choose menu

and submenu items, navigate dialog boxes, “voice-click” buttons, “voice-press” keys, move the mouse pointer,

and much more, without touching the mouse or keyboard.

Of course, when Dragon is running, you can still use your mouse and keyboard. Mouse, keyboard, and voice are

just three input options. Use whatever is fastest and easiest for a given task.

Let’s start with a very frequent task made fast and easy thanks to Version 10: searching your computer.

Keyword-searching the Computer

Available in editions ‘Preferred’ and up, Dragon 10’s “Voice Shortcuts for Desktop Search” help speed up a

process many of us go through very often: finding information that we know is somewhere on our computer!

At anytime, no matter what application is currently active on your screen, these commands let you launch the

search for items containing the keyword(s) you specify. They use indexing software including Google Desktop

(freely downloadable from Google’s website).

These search commands have flexible wordings (the Command Browser lets you see all the possible ways to say

them). They can be general (“search computer for <xyz>”-- <xyz> being any word or words), or specific:

• Search email for <xyz>: searches for the keyword(s) in just the e-mails indexed on your computer

• Search [the] documents for <xyz>: searches just the indexed files

• Search [the] history for <xyz>: searches just the indexed Web pages visited

Note:

These “Desktop search” commands can

be disabled or enabled on the

Commands tab of Dragon’s Options

dialog box.