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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 Print a message
l Sort and label messages
l Search your mail
l Navigate Mailboxes
The commands below are available when you are using Apple Mail. Use the menu walking commands to access other
Mail features. For example, say "Click Message menu," then "Click Add Sender to Contacts."
Remember, in some applications, it's better not to use your mouse and keyboard while dictating text. See
Mixing dictation with typing for more information, including a list of currently supported applications.
Creating a new message
l Say "New message" to compose a new message from scratch.
To reply to the selected message
Say one of the following:
l "Reply to this message"
l "Reply All to this message"
To forward the selected message
Do one of the following:
l Say "Forward this message" to forward the whole message.
l Say "Forward selection" to forward a selected portion of the message.
l Say "Redirect this message" to send the message directly to a new recipient.
To resend the selected message
l Say "Send this message again."
Navigating within your message
Move your cursor to a different point in your text with the standard navigation commands, such as:
l "Insert before <text>"
l "<Direction> arrow" (up, down, left or right)
l "Click next / previous field"
See Navigating within a document for more information.
You can also say any of the following in Mail:
l "Move to beginning / end of message"
l "Move up / down one paragraph"
l "Move left / right one word"
l "Move to beginning / end of this line"
l "Move left / right one character"
Selecting text
Use the standard commands for making a selection, such as:
l "Select <text>"
l "Select All"
l "Select next / previous word"
l "Unselect that"
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