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Installation and User Profile Creation

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User Guide Page Contents Iii Formatting Introduction About this guide Conventions used in this guide What should I expect from Dragon? Do I still need my keyboard and mouse? What if I can’t use a keyboard and mouse? Plugging in the microphone Multiple users on one computer Installing Dragon to a custom location What you should know before installingInstalling on Windows Vista/Windows Coexistence with previous versions of Dragon Before installing the softwareCoexistence with other Dragon products Coexistence with the Dragon SDK Client Edition Choosing type of installation Choose the type of installation to carry out Installing software Typical Installation To install all features of Dragon Installing software Custom Installation \Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking11 Modify the administrative settings OPT ION Description Modifying application settings for all users Modifying administrative settings Modifying formatting options for all users Creating your user profile To create a user profile User Guide Installation and User Profile Creation Setting up/positioning your microphone Using a headset microphone Checking microphone volume/sound quality Using an array microphone Training a new user profile To train a new user Installation and User Profile Creation Adapting to your writing style, scheduling tuning Let Dragon automatically improve your accuracy Scheduling data collection Help us improve Dragon How Dragon automatically configures user profile To upgrade existing users Upgrading User Profiles User Guide Version 11.5 File Structure Windows Vista and Windows 7 directory structure Accessing log files, samples, and tools Cleaning up after uninstalling Installation and User Profile Creation Starting to Dictate Starting Dragon Turning on the microphone Sleeping and waking up Using Natural Punctuation Starting to dictate Dictating punctuation Starting new lines and paragraph Using the Dictation Box Tips for dictating text Printing Getting HelpPrinting and saving your dictated text Saving What Can I Say? To open the Dragon Sidebar MS Outlook commands Global commands Desktop commands DragonBar TroubleshootingTutorial Microphone button and volume display Full Text Control indicator Extras toolbar Controlling Dragon with voice commands Changing the DragonBar position To shut off/permanently disable QuickStart Using QuickStartTo enable QuickStart To Temporarily Disable QuickStart Using QuickStart Phone On/Off ProfilePage Starting a program Programs, documents, and foldersShorter names for popular programs Switching between open windows Opening documents and folders from the Start menu To switch between open programs or windows Opening and closing menus To open a menu Selecting buttons, tabs, and options Using Windows Desktop commands User Guide Selecting icons on the desktop To select an icon on the desktop Resizing and closing windows Say Move Right 1, Move Down 2, or Move Up Scrolling in popular programs To open a list box Scrolling in windows and list boxesOpening lists and making selections To make a selection from an open list Pressing keyboard keys Pressing letters Capitalizing a letter Pressing numbers Pressing key combinations Pressing function and numeric keypad keys Pressing other keys Moving the mouse pointer with MouseGrid Moving the mouse pointer and clicking the mouseTo use MouseGrid Moving the pointer with the Mouse command To move the pointer Clicking the mouseMarking and dragging objects To click the mouse Moving the pointer with the mouse motion commands Dragging the mouse Mouse motion commands Enabling the mouse motion commands Working on Your Desktop Correcting mistakes To correct text with the keyboard Correcting text using voice commands Correcting text while playing back dictation Using the Correction menu Numbered list of alternative recognitions Spell That All Caps That Make That a CommandPlay That Back Add that to Vocabulary Correcting Punctuation Using Full Text ControlSelecting text by voice To use Full Text Control Selecting the same text again Unselecting words Selecting a longer phrase Selecting your whole document Selecting an entire paragraph or line Selecting a word or character Going to the top or bottom of a page or document Moving around in a documentGoing to the beginning or end of a line To place the insertion point before a specific word Placing the insertion point before or after a specific wordMoving up or down a paragraph or line To place the insertion point after a specific word Moving right or left a word or character Copying, cutting, and pasting textDeleting text Deleting the last words you dictated To go back as you dictate Going back as you dictateDeleting specific words To delete text Deleting the next or previous paragraph or line Deleting the next or previous word or character Spelling as you dictate Correcting and Editing Playing back your dictation Playing back dictation from the Correction menu Playing back dictation in a document To stop playback To play back dictationTo skip backward or forward Correcting someone else’s dictation Dictate now, correct laterCorrecting your own dictation To stop playback and correct a mistake Correcting with your own user files To correct using someone else’s user filesCorrecting with the document author’s user files Correcting and Editing Using text-to-speech To start text-to-speech, do one of the following To stop text-to-speech, do one of the following Formatting Capitalizing consecutive words Capitalizing textCapitalizing first letter of next word you dictate To capitalize the first letters of consecutive words Dictating next word in all lowercase letters Dictating next word in all capital lettersDictating consecutive words in all capital letters Dictating consecutive words in all lowercase letters To dictate consecutive words in all lowercase letters Formatting textChanging the font as you dictate To capitalize or uncapitalize text Changing font style Changing font faceChanging font size Changing a combination of font face, size, and style Bold, italics, and underlining Changing the font laterTo change the font To add bold, italics, and underlining Aligning textBulleted text To remove formattingPage Dictating numbers 101 102 103 Using Numbers modeDates 104 Times of day North American phone numbers 105Telephone numbers Telephone numbers outside North America Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers 106Fractions 107 Roman numerals US ZIP Codes 108Postal and ZIP Codes UK and Canadian Postal Codes Currency and coin 109Currency in US/Canada US English dialect 110 111 PunctuationEnabling and disabling automatic punctuation Characteristics 112 Words that end with ’s Dictating hyphenated words113 Including ’s as you dictate Removing hyphens 114Including hyphens as you dictate Preventing hyphens Compounding words as you dictate Dictating compound words115 Compounding words later 116 Dictating namesDictating abbreviations and acronyms To compound words Dictating e-mail and Web addresses 117 118 Dictating special charactersDictating common special characters Switching recognition modes 119 120 Index 121 122 123 124 125 126 Information, Sales, Services and Technical Support 127