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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
Preferences window
In this topic, learn how to use the Preferences window to customize Dragon settings, including:
l General preferences
l Profiles and dictation sources
l Dragon Anywhere accounts
l Keyboard shortcuts
l Update Dragon
l Advanced preferences
l License keys or Dragon accounts
The Preferences window allows you to customize various Dragon settings.
To show the Preferences window
l Say "Access Dragon Preferences window."
Or
l Click the icon in the menu bar, then select Preferences…
There are six panes in the Preferences window:
General
In the General pane of the Preferences window, you can control basic aspects of Dragon's appearance
and behavior.
See more…
Startup options:
l Microphone in Sleep instead of Off at Startup—Select to change the default microphone mode when
Dragon launches to sleep. Otherwise, Dragon launches with the microphone turned off.
This allows you to turn the microphone on by saying "Wake up" rather than having to use your mouse.
l Show Status Window at Startup—Select to show the Status Window at launch time. Otherwise, you will
have to show the Status Window by saying "Wake up". For more information, see The Status Window.
l Launch Dragon at Startup—Select to allow Dragon to launch when you turn on your computer. This
means Dragon will always be available to you – just turn on your microphone and speak.
Command Generation options:
l Generate Application Launch Commands—Select to allow Dragon to create globally available
commands you can use to launch any application on your computer. See Launching and quitting
applications for details.
l Generate Email Commands—Select to allow Dragon to create globally available commands to create
and address an email message to anyone in your Contacts list. See Working with Mail for details on email
commands.
Restart Dragon to see changes to your generated command preferences.
Auto Sleep options:
Adjust the slider to change how long the microphone takes to go to sleep when you are not using it.
Allowing the microphone to go to sleep prevents Dragon from interpreting background noise as dictation
while you are not using it.
Profiles
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