ScanSoft DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING 8, Manual

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Contents
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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C H A P T E R 5 Correcting and Editing 41
Correcting mistakes 41
Selecting text by voice 45
Moving around in a document 48
Copying, cutting, and pasting text 50
Deleting text 50
Spelling as you dictate 52
Playing back your dictation (Preferred and higher) 54
Using text-to-speech 58
C H A P T E R 6 Formatting 61
Capitalizing text 61
Formatting text 64
C H A P T E R 7 Working with Applications 67
Working with e-mail 67
Working with Microsoft Internet Explorer 70
Working with Microsoft Word 76
Working with Microsoft Excel (Preferred and higher) 80
C H A P T E R 8 Dictating Names, Numbers, Punctuation & Special
Characters 83
Dictating numbers 83
Punctuation 91
Dictating hyphenated words 93
Dictating compound words 94
Dictating names 95
Dictating abbreviations and acronyms 96
Dictating e-mail and Web addresses 96
Dictating special characters 97
Switching Recognition Modes 101
C H A P T E R 9 Using the Command Browser 103
Supported Applications 103
Starting the Command Browser 104
Finding specific commands 105
Training commands 109
Working with Custom Commands (Preferred and higher) 109
C H A P T E R 1 0 Improving Accuracy 117
The Accuracy Center 117
Tools to improve your acoustics 118
Tools to Manage Commands 121