Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dragon Dictate
Quick-Start Guide
Selecting Text
Select ____ Select ____ to ______ Select All Select Next/Previous Selects a specific word or words - (See tool tip at the bottom of page) Selects a series of words that follow on from each other. Selects all the text in your document. Selects the next or previous word
Deleting Text
Forget That/ Scratch That Forget Word/ Scratch Word Delete _____ Delete _____ to ______ Deletes the last thing you said Deletes the last word you said Deletes a specific word Deletes a series of words that follow on from each other.
Capitalizing text
All Caps On/ Caps On All Caps Off/ Caps Off Uppercase ____ to ____ Lowercase ____ to ____ No Caps All Caps Turn all capitals on (like pressing the CAPS LOCK key). Turn all capitals off. Puts in capitals a specific selection of text Puts in lower case a specific selection of text Stops the last word you said being capitalised Makes the last thing you said all capitals
Play Back/ Proof Reading Your Document (Note: the text has to be Pre-selected)
Read/ Proof Read _____ Read/ Proof Read Selection Read/ Proof Read Document Plays back pre-selected word Plays back pre-selected phrase or selection of words Plays back all the document to you
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Switching Modes
Dictation Mode Spelling Mode Command Mode Allows you to dictate and carry out commands. Allows you to spell in words only. Allows you to carry out commands only.
Press the Key Combo ___ plus ___ Presses a combination of Keys, e.g. Command + P (to print) Press Cancel Press Dont Save Press OK Save this Document Presses the Cancel Button Presses the Dont Save Button Presses the OK Button Saves the Document
Menu Commands
File New File Open File Close Undo Last Action Redo Last Action About this Application Access Find Window Access Force Quit Show Date and Time Creates a New File Goes to the Open Menu Closes a File Clicks the Undo Button Clicks the Redo Button Gives you details of the Application you are in. Goes to the Find Facility Window Use this only if your screen has frozen and you cannot exit normally Shows you the date and time
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Chat Commands
Send Message Smiley Face Winky Face Frowny Face Sends your specific message after youve dictated it Inserts a Smiley Face in your message Inserts a Winky Face in your message Inserts a Frowny Face in your message
& * s @ . ` \ / : ,
Ampersand Asterisk Apostrophe Apostrophe ess At Sign Dot/ Point/ Full-stop Back-Quote Open Single Quote Close Single Quote Open Quote Close Quote Back-Slash Slash / Forward Slash Colon Comma
Caret Dash
[ ] < > +
Open Square Bracket Close Square Bracket Less Than More Than Minus Sign Plus Sign
(space) Space Bar (TAB) Tab Key $ # = ! ( ) { } Pound Sign Dollar Sign Euro Sign Hash Sign Equal Sign Exclamation Mark Hyphen Open Bracket Close Bracket Open Curly Bracket Close Curly Bracket
% Percent Sign ? ; ~ _ | Question Mark Section Sign Semicolon Tilde Underscore Vertical Bar