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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
l Say "Select <text>," then say "Make the selection underlined" to underline selected text.
Related topics:
l Making a selection
Capitalization
Dragon automatically capitalizes most words when appropriate. For example, Dragon recognizes and automatically
capitalizes the first word in a sentence, most names and places, and many acronyms.
If you need to make adjustments to the capitalization, use these commands.
Title Case
To capitalize a word as you dictate
l Say "Cap <word>" to capitalize the next word you dictate.
l Say "Capitalize word" to capitalize the last word you dictated.
To capitalize the next string of words as you dictate
l Say "Caps on" to capitalize the first letter of every word you dictate.
l Say "Caps off" to go back to normal capitalization.
To capitalize words you have already dictated
l Say "Capitalize that" to capitalize the last utterance you dictated.
l Say "Capitalize <text>" to change the specified text to title case.
l Say "Capitalize Next" or "Capitalize Previous" to capitalize the next or previous instance of the same text.
l Say "Capitalize <text> to <text>" to change a range of text from the first specified word through the second
to title case.
l Say "Capitalize the paragraph" to capitalize the entire paragraph.
l Say "Select <text>," then say "Capitalize selection" to change the selected text to title case.
Lowercase
To lowercase a word as you dictate
l Say "No Caps <word>" to make the next word you dictate lowercase.
l Say "Lowercase word" to make the last word you dictated lowercase.
To lowercase the next string of words as you dictate
l Say "No Caps on" to make every word you dictate lowercase.
l Say "No Caps off" to go back to normal capitalization.
To lowercase text you have already dictated
l Say "Lowercase that" to make the last utterance you dictated lowercase.
l Say "Lowercase <text>" to change the specified text to lowercase.
l Say "Lowercase Next" or "Lowercase Previous" to change the next or previous instance of the same text to
lowercase.
l Say "Lowercase <text> to <text>" to change a range of text from the first specified word through the
second to lowercase.
l Say "Lowercase the paragraph" to change the entire paragraph to lowercase.
l Say "Select <text>," then say "Lowercase selection" to change the selected text to lowercase.
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