User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide
Chapter 10: Working on
Your Desktop
This section contains the following topics:
Starting and exiting programs 193
Using Windows Desktop commands 195
Controlling menus 197
Selecting buttons and dialog box options 198
Selecting tabs in a dialog box 199
Resizing and closing windows 199
Selecting and opening icons 200
Scrolling in windows and lists 200
Searching your Desktop by voice 201
Switching between programs and windows 202
Starting and exiting programs
Use the following voice commands to start programs that appear anywhere on your Start
menu or your Desktop.
Attention
The "Start <program name>" command can be turned off to reduce computer memory use
and eliminate misrecognitions of dictation as commands. See Enable launching from the Start
menu in the Dragon Help.
To start a program
Say "Start" followed by the program name.
Instead of "start," you can also say "open," "launch" or "show." For example, say "open Note-
pad."
Shorter names for popular programs
For the popular Windows programs listed here, you can use shorter program names in addi-
tion to the standard program label shown on the Start menu or under the program icon on the
Desktop. For other programs you'll need to say the standard program label.
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