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Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Formatting
ou can bold text, change font sizes and styles, capitalize text, and apply other
formatting by voice.
Many Dragon NaturallySpeaking formatting commands work for text that is
selected (highlighted) in your document. To select text by voice, say “Select” plus
the words you want to select. See “Selecting text by voice” on page 45 for
information.
You can change the formatting properties of a word (such as whether Dragon
NaturallySpeaking should type a space before or after the word, or whether the word is capitalized in
a title) by using the Word Properties dialog box, described in “Changing word properties” on page
128.
Capitalizing text
Capitalizing the first letter of the next word you dictate
Dragon NaturallySpeaking capitalizes many words automatically. It capitalizes the
first word in a sentence (following a period, question mark, or exclamation mark). It
capitalizes the first word after you say “New Paragraph” (though not when you say
“New Line”) and it capitalizes proper names (when these words are already in the
Dragon NaturallySpeaking vocabulary in capitalized form).
You can change the spacing and capitalization rules for a word in the Word Properties
dialog box. See “Changing word properties“ on page 128 for more information.
Types of commands
Most of the commands listed in this chapter are global—they are available in
virtually every application. In addition to the global commands listed here,
Dragon NaturallySpeaking includes many commands for editing and
formatting that work in common applications. For more information on
finding these commands see page 103.
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