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control over where punctuation appears, you may want to
explicitly dictate all your punctuation.
You can turn Natural Punctuation on and off by voice by saying
"autopunctuation on" and "autopunctuation off" or by selecting Tools >
Auto-Formatting Options from the menu of the DragonBar and
clicking Automatically add commas and periods.
For more information on Natural Punctuation see Using
Natural Punctuation on page 111.
Dictating punctuation
You can dictate punctuation at any time while you are using
Dragon, even when Natural Punctuation is enabled.
Use the following list as a guide to dictating the most common
punctuation marks. (For a complete list of punctuation, see the
online help.)
Starting new lines and paragraph
While you are dictating, you can use the following commands to
duplicate the action of pressing the ENT ER key once (to add a
new line) or twice (to add a new paragraph).
TO EN TER SAY ( US/ Can ada ) SAY (O ther Di alect s)
, comma comma
. period full stop
! exclamation point or
exclamation mark exclamation mark
? questionmark question mark
- hyphen hyphen
: colon colon
TO SA Y
Add a new line “New Line”
Add a new
paragraph “New
Paragraph”
NOTE: