User guide

Dragon 12 Installation and User Guide

To exit a program

With any window that has the active focus on your screen, say "Close Window," or say

"Click Close"

Notes

n To access some built-in items on the main section of the Windows Start menu, includ-

ing Shut Down, Help, Run, and the Favorites, Find, and Settings menus, you must say

"Click Start" or "Click Start Menu" and then say the menu names you want until you

reach the program. For example, to start the Find Files or Folders tool, say "Click

Start" and then "Find Files or Folders."

n In some versions of Windows you must close any open applications before you can

use the voice command "Shut Down Windows" to exit Windows.

n On some versions of Windows, you can control Internet Explorer menus and dialog

boxes by voice only if the "Voice-enable menus, buttons, and other controls, exclud-

ing" box is selected on the Miscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box.

n To use Dragon to operate Windows menus and dialog box controls by voice, the

option Voice enable menus, buttons and other controls must remain enabled in the

Miscellaneous tab of the Options dialog box. The setting ensures that the Windows

Active Accessibility feature allows voice control of Windows menus and controls.

This option is turned on by default.

Using Windows Desktop commands

You can use voice commands to perform many actions on the Windows Desktop, as shown

in the table below.

Notes

n Instead of dictating the verb "open," you can also say "start," "launch" or "show." For

example, say "start Notepad."

n For details about how to say program names, see Starting and exiting programs.

n See About the Command Browser for more variants of all commands listed here and

see Creating new commands in the Dragon Help for information about how to create

your own commands.

n Items in square brackets are optional.

To do this You can say

Open Windows special folders

Open your My Computer window "Open My Computer"

Open your My Documents folder "Open My Documents"

Open your My Pictures folder "Open My Pictures"

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