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Chapter 7 — Reference
Dictate Menu (continued)
Visit MacSpeech’s Web Site
Launches your browser and takes you to MacSpeech’s Web
site (Internet connection required).
Check for Updates…
Checks for to see if there are any software version up-
dates available for MacSpeech Dictate (Internet connection
required).
Services
Provides access to Mac OS X’s Services.
Hide MacSpeech Dictate (Cmd-H)
Hides MacSpeech Dictate
Hide Others (Cmd-Opt-H)
Hides all applications other than MacSpeech Dictate.
Show All
Shows all hidden applications.
Quit MacSpeech Dictate (Cmd-Q)
Quits the MacSpeech Dictate application.
File Menu
Figure 7-5
New Note Pad (Cmd-N)
Choose this to open a new Note Pad window (figure 7-6). You
can dictate directly into a Note Pad window and transfer the
text to another document. Multiple Note Pad windows can be
open at once.
Figure 7-6
The Note Pad may provide more control over the text you are
dictating compared to many third-party applications. Many
commonly-used word processing commands are available
for formatting the text in this window. These commands are
in the Edit and Format menus, which are described later in
this chapter.
New Command (Cmd-Shift-N)
This opens a new Command window (Figure 7-7).
Figure 7-7
Open (Cmd-O)
Opens a previously saved Note Pad document.
Close (Cmd-W)
This closes the active window.
Save (Cmd-S)
This allows you to save the current Note Pad window.
Save As… (Cmd-Shift-S)
Saves the current Note Pad document under a different
name.