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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
Some addresses can be difficult to interpret. For example, if you say "Two hundred forty fifth street," you
might mean "245th Street," "200 45th Street," or "240 5th Street." In this case, you may need to switch to
Spelling mode to get the results you want.
If you frequently dictate a specific address, you can create custom Auto-text commands to insert them
into your dictation. See Auto-text commands for more information.
UK and Canadian postcodes
Check to format postcodes correctly for the UK and Canada.
Example
Say: "W two four R J"
Result: W2 4RJ
Web and email addresses
Check to format electronic addresses correctly.
Example 1—Email
Say: "name at Nuance dot com"
Result: name@nuance.com
Example 2—Website
Say: "W W W dot Nuance dot com"
Result: www.nuance.com
Phone numbers
Check to display properly-formatted phone numbers when you say
seven- or ten-digit sequences.
Vanity phone numbers, such as 1-800-EXAMPLE, are not
supported, nor is automatic formatting of US phone
numbers for UK English users.
Example
Say: "eight hundred five five five one two
one two"
Result: 800-555-1212
Abbreviated titles
Check to shorten common forms of address.
Example
Say: "Mister Smith"
Result: Mr. Smith
Dates
Check to format spoken dates. The dropdown menu offers a number
of formatting choices; a few examples are shown here.
Omitting the year when you speak produces the month
and day as a word and a number, regardless of the
formatting you've selected. For example, "January five" or
"January fifth" produces January 5.
Example
Say: "January fifth 2016"
Result 1: January 5, 2016
Result 2: 5 January, 2016
Result 3: 01/05/2016
Times
Check to format times correctly.
Example
Say: "three twenty A M"
Result: 3:20 AM
Use numerals starting with
Dragon will interpret numbers below the number specified in the
dropdown menu as words, and numbers equal to or greater than that
number as numerals.
Example 1
Say: "three"
Result: Three
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