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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
speech recognition investment—even offering productivity tips and helping you discover advanced Dragon features.
You can take advantage of:
l Helpful tips always available in the Guidance Window
l Improved online Help:
l Enhanced Help that gives users easier access to top searches
l Changing content on main help page with highly used topics featured
l New troubleshooting sections
l Expanded navigational text that gives users more information/context
l More task-based dialog box help
Related topics:
l The Status Window
l The Guidance window
l Transcribing recorded audio
Upgrading from Dragon Dictate 4 or Dragon for Mac 5: FAQ
In this topic, find out answers to common questions about upgrading, including:
l What files can I remove after upgrading?
l What can I do if my profile won't upgrade?
l What happened to Transcription sources?
l Upgrading from Dragon for Mac 5
l Upgrading from Dragon Dictate 4
All Upgrades
I just finished upgrading – is there anything I can delete to save disk space?
You can remove old Dragon files from your hard drive once you are sure that Dragon Professional Individual for Mac 6
is working properly:
1. In the Finder, select Go > Go to Folder…
2.
Copy and paste the following: /Library/Application Support/Dragon
3. Click the Go button.
A Finder window opens, displaying the contents of the specified folder.
4.
Drag the file named Speech Engine Data (English) 4.0 or Speech Engine Data (English) 5.0 to the
Trash.
Important: Do not move any other files in the Dragon folder.
5. Once you have successfully upgraded your profile and verified that it works as expected, you can delete the
backup copies of your old profiles. In the /Documents/Dragon/Support folder, find the zipped backup copies
of your old profiles and drag them to the trash.
My profile won't upgrade. What can I do?
Make sure the microphones listed as Dictation sources in your profile are connected. Missing microphones are marked
with a in the Profiles pane.
See Issues with Upgraded Profiles for more information. If you don't have any custom words, it may be better to create
a new profile.
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