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Correcting and Editing

5Use the buttons on the Extras toolbar to play back dictation.

6Select the text you want to correct by mouse or keyboard.

7Press the correction hot key (normally the minus [–] key on the numeric key pad) or click the Correct button on the DragonBar Extras toolbar. The Correction menu appears with the selected text.

8Use the keyboard to correct the text.

9When you finish, save the text and the user’s speech files.

NOTE: Notes on correcting with another author’s user files

This technique is effective if all work is done on a single computer. Consult your Dragon reseller about ways to dictate on one computer and correct on another.

Display the DragonBar Extras toolbar by clicking the double

chevron icon on the DragonBar (not possible in Cling mode).

nIn the Correction menu, you can use the mouse or keyboard to select any of the commands displayed below the correction choices. For example, you can click Spell That to open the Spell dialog box and spell the word.

nYou may want to select the following on the Correction tab of the Options dialog box:

nCorrect command brings up Correction menu

nAutomatic playback on correction box

With these settings, Dragon automatically plays back the author’s dictation for each selection of text you correct. The Correction menu does not play back dictation.

nWhen you correct someone else’s dictation, be sure that the amount of disk space you have reserved for storing dictation is at least as large as the amount allocated for the user that created the text. You allocate the disk space on the Data tab of the Options dialog box.

nSaving dictation with documents can take up more than a megabyte of disk space per minute of dictation. To save this space, delete any dictation audio you no longer need.

nDragon saves dictation audio in a file with the same name as the document, but with the .dra extension. For example, for a document

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