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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
The Profiles pane allows you to add, edit and delete profiles and audio sources.
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Existing profiles are listed in the Profiles (Voices) box. Dictation sources are listed in the Dictation Sources
(Microphones) box. The name of the active profile and dictation source are each marked with a green dot.
Existing profiles from an earlier versions of Dragon are marked in the Profiles pane with a special icon (
) and need to be upgraded before you can continue using them. Please note that you can't upgrade a
profile that has a missing microphone.
For detailed information, see Using profiles and dictation sources.
Dragon Anywhere
Enter your Dragon Anywhere login credentials to link your desktop version of Dragon to your Dragon
Anywhere account and enable resource sharing.
See Dragon Anywhere for more details.
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Once you are logged in, click Sync Now to share your custom words and Auto-texts with your mobile device.
Select Sync when loading profiles to allow Dragon Anywhere to sync automatically whenever you change
profiles.
Click Sign Out to sign out of your Dragon Anywhere account.
Shortcuts
The Shortcuts pane lets you set global keyboard shortcuts (hot keys) for four Dragon actions.
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l Toggle Microphone. Turns the microphone on or off. Default is ⌘ F11.
See Microphone modes for more information.
l Select Speech Mode. Cycles through the recognition modes. Default is ⌘ F10.
See Recognition modes for more information.
l Show Correction Window. Shows and hides the Correction Window. Default is ⌘ F9.
See Using Correction for details.
l Dismiss MouseGrid. Hides the MouseGrid. Default is ⌘ F12.
See MouseGrid for more details.
To set a shortcut
l Click in the oval shortcut region and type the desired shortcut.
To delete a shortcut
l Click the at the right end of the oval shortcut region.
To revert to a previous shortcut
l Click the curved arrow ( ) at the right end of the oval shortcut region.
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