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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
Option 1:
Before upgrading your profile, Dragon saves a copy in a zip file stored in the /Documents/Dragon/Support folder. Try
restoring this backup copy and upgrading again.
1. Quit Dragon.
2.
Find your upgraded profiles in /Documents/Dragon.
3. Move any new profiles to the Trash, but DO NOT EMPTY THE TRASH.
4.
Unzip the old Dragon version 4 or 5 profile in /Documents/Dragon/Support.
5. Open Dragon and try upgrading the profile again.
You may or may not be asked to repeat Microphone Setup, based on Dragon's analysis of how to provide the
highest quality recognition after upgrading.
6. Test this upgraded profile to ensure the imported vocabulary works as expected. If so, it is safe to empty the
Trash.
Option 2
If you can load the profile, export the user-added vocabulary, then import it to a new profile.
1. Immediately after launching Dragon, load the suspect profile (if not the default), and choose Edit
Vocabulary… from the Dragon menu ( ).
The Vocabulary Editor opens.
2. Choose User from the drop-down list to view only user-added custom vocabulary.
3. Press Command-A on the keyboard to select all items.
4. Click the menu at the bottom of the Vocabulary Editor and select Export.
A popup window appears.
5. Enter a name for the file in the Save As field
6. In the Where field, select the folder where you want to save the file.
7. Click Export.
Dragon creates an .xml file containing all custom vocabulary for the selected profile. A notification appears
when the export is complete.
8. Click OK, then close the Vocabulary Editor and quit Dragon.
9. Move the suspect profile to the Trash, but DO NOT EMPTY THE TRASH.
10. Launch Dragon.
11. Create a new profile, or use a profile that does not appear to be having issues.
12. Click the icon in the menu bar and select Edit Vocabulary…
13. Click the menu at the bottom of the Vocabulary Editor and select Import.
A Finder window appears.
14. Select the file you previously saved and click Import.
15. Test this new profile to ensure the imported vocabulary works as expected. If so, it is safe to empty the
Trash.
Transcription profile is missing
Dragon Professional Individual for Mac 6 handles Transcription differently than previous versions. If you had profiles
set up specifically for Transcription in Dragon for Mac 5 or Dragon Dictate 4, they do not appear in the Profiles pane.
Instead, they appear in the Speaker dropdown list in the Transcription window. See What happened to Transcription
sources? for more information.
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