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Table Of Contents
- Dragon Professional for Mac User Guide
- Get started
- Using the Dragon menu
- The Status Window
- The Guidance window
- Recognition modes
- Preferences window
- Using profiles and dictation sources
- Using DragonPad
- FAQs
- What's New?
- Upgrading from Dragon Dictate 4 or Dragon for Mac 5: FAQ
- Activate and Register
- Use the microphone
- Dictate text
- Getting started with dictation
- Mixing dictation with typing
- Dictation overview
- Take it back
- Dictating punctuation and symbols
- Dictating letters
- Dictating numbers
- Correct mistakes
- Edit text
- Format text
- Auto Formatting
- To open the Auto Formatting window:
- Street Addresses
- UK and Canadian postcodes
- Web and email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Abbreviated titles
- Dates
- Times
- Use numerals starting with
- Partially format -illion numbers
- Prices and currencies
- ISO currency codes
- Units of measure
- Social Security Numbers
- All other numbers
- Common abbreviations
- Expand contractions
- Insert two spaces after period
- Allow pauses in formatted phrases
- Formatting
- Capitalization
- Spacing
- Aligning text
- Auto Formatting
- Transcription
- Control your computer
- Launching and quitting applications
- Navigating application windows
- OS X controls
- Working with the Finder
- Using dialog controls
- Key commands
- Menu Walking
- Mouse commands
- MouseGrid
- Create documents
- Working with Microsoft Word
- Working with TextEdit
- Navigating within a document
- To move the cursor to the first or last position in the current document
- To move the cursor a specified number of words from its current position
- To insert the cursor before a specified word or phrase
- To move the cursor to its previous position
- To move the cursor up, down, left or right
- To move the cursor to a new text field
- Related topics:
- Use applications
- Working with Mail
- Working with TextEdit
- Working with Microsoft Word
- Working with Safari
- Working with Firefox
- Working with Calendar
- Working with Messages
- Browse the web
- Dragon Web Extensions
- Installing Dragon Web Extensions
- Upgrading Dragon Web Extensions
- Setting up Dragon Web Extensions—Safari
- Setting up Dragon Web Extensions—Firefox
- Using Dragon Web Extensions to access links and other Web controls
- Disabling or Uninstalling Dragon Web Extensions—Firefox
- Disabling or Uninstalling Dragon Web Extensions—Safari
- Working with Safari
- Working with Firefox
- Posting to Facebook and Twitter
- Dragon Web Extensions
- Make Dragon more accurate
- Use email
- Working with email
- Working with Mail
- Working with webmail
- AutoTexts
- Manage Dragon Commands
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting overview
- Troubleshooting audio and recognition
- Troubleshooting Dragon Web Extensions
- Troubleshooting Commands
- Troubleshooting Vocabulary
- Issues with Upgraded Profiles
- Uninstall Dragon Professional Individual for Mac version 6
Commands from Dragon Dictate 4 do not work
If you wrote your own AppleScript commands for Dragon Dictate 4, you need to update those commands. Change any
reference in the scripts from "Dragon Dictate" to "Dragon."
Related topics:
l Troubleshooting overview
l The Commands window
l Create a command
l Import and export commands
l MouseGrid
l Where are my files?
Troubleshooting Vocabulary
I can't add documents to Vocabulary Training
If you are unable to add your written documents to the Vocabulary Training window, try these steps to solve the
problem.
l Make sure the documents you want to add are in text (.txt and .rtf) or Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx) format.
l Remove any graphics from the documents.
l Divide large files over 3MB into smaller files.
My custom vocabulary words are missing
Occasionally, technical support may tell you to delete your profile. Because your custom vocabulary items are stored
in this folder, they will no longer appear if you create a new profile.
Important: Do not delete your profile unless specifically instructed by Nuance technical support.
Dragon backs up your custom vocabulary words in your Documents folder. To restore your vocabulary:
1. Click the in the menu bar and select Edit Vocabulary…
The Vocabulary Editor appears.
2. Click the Tools menu ( ) and select Import…
3.
Browse to Documents/Dragon/Support/<profile>/Vocabulary Backup.xml and click Import.
Related topics:
l Vocabulary Training
l Editing Dragon's Vocabulary
l Troubleshooting overview
l Troubleshooting audio and recognition
Issues with Upgraded Profiles
In this topic, learn what to do if:
l Your profile upgrade failed
l You can't find your upgraded Transcription profiles
Profile upgrade failed
Dragon does its best to upgrade existing profiles. In rare cases, profiles can contain damage that cannot be repaired
when upgraded. If you have no custom vocabulary, the simplest answer is to create a new profile and delete the old
damaged profile.
If you have custom vocabulary you need to preserve, you can try these steps:
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