Nuance comm K609A-G00-11.0 manual 106, Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers

Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters

TIP: In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” instead of “parenthesis.”

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Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers

To indicate how you want dates, times, telephone numbers, and other numbers automatically formatted:

1On the DragonBar, select Tools > Auto-Formatting. The Auto- Formatting dialog box appears.

2Click the check box labeled Format Dates and select the format you want from its drop-down list. For instance, select Month D, YYYY or D/M/YY.

3Click the check box labeled Format times. Dragon then formats times based on your Regional Settings in Windows.

4To have hyphens added to a phone number automatically, click the check box labeled Phone numbers (all other editions).

5You can also click the check box for Prefer 5 million over 5,000,000.

6Other formats you can click check boxes for on this tab include United Kingdom and Canadian postal codes and several non-numeric formats that involve using common abbreviations, expanded contractions, abbreviations of units of measure and titles (such as Mr., Ms., Dr.), and formats for web and email addresses as well as street addresses.

7If you have any edition, click OK to save the settings and close the dialog box.

Fractions

You can dictate most common fractions the way you would normally say them. To dictate 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9,

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