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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
Text Type Examples
longer addresses.
l Use Spelling mode to enter complex URLs.
l Say "No Caps on" if you want to prevent Dragon from
capitalizing words within an address.
Example 3
Say:"No space on" [pause] "Seattle
Times dot com"
Result: SeattleTimes.com
Proper nouns
Most common names are already in Dragon's vocabulary. When you
say the name, Dragon capitalizes it automatically.
For less common proper nouns, or names that may also be words (e.g.,
Chase, Sandy or Iris), you can say "Cap" before the word.
Example 1
Say: "james is going to boston tomorrow
period"
Result: James is going to Boston
tomorrow.
Example 2
Say: "I will meet you and Cap hope at the
restaurant period"
Result: I will meet you and Hope at the
restaurant.
Hyphenated words
Most common hyphenated words are already in Dragon's vocabulary.
When you say the word, Dragon automatically hyphenates it.
For less common hyphenated words, you can say "Hyphen" in the
appropriate place.
Example 1
Say: "cross country"
Result: cross-country
Example 2
Say: "power hyphen sharing"
Result: power-sharing
Compound words
Most common compound words are already in Dragon's vocabulary.
Say the word, and it will be typed correctly.
If you want to create a compound word where Dragon has typed two
words:
l Say "No space" before dictating the second word.
Or
l Say "Insert before <word>" to insert the cursor before the
second word, then say "No leading space."
Example 1
Say: "firefighter"
Result: firefighter
Example 2
Say: "snow No space shovel"
Result: snowshovel
Abbreviations
Most common abbreviations are already in Dragon's vocabulary. When
you say the word, Dragon abbreviates it automatically.
If Dragon is not abbreviating as expected, check your Auto Formatting
preferences.
Example
Say: "mister james brown"
Result: Mr. James Brown
Acronyms
Most common acronyms are already in Dragon's vocabulary. Say the
acronym, and Dragon formats it automatically.
For less common acronyms, you can say "All caps on" followed by the
acronym letters. For best results, switch to Spelling mode to do this.
Example 1
Say: "The C E O will address the
company tomorrow period"
Result: The CEO will address the
company tomorrow.
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