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Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Word
In “Controlling the Operating System and Applications”, you learned about Natural Language Commands. Since
Microsoft Word is an application many people use, this chapter lists built-in commands for this word processor.
Corel WordPerfect has similar commands, so it shares the same Dragon Sidebar content.
Remember that if your system resources are low, enabling Natural Language Commands could decrease
Dragon’s speed. (Also, if an application’s set is disabled, the Dragon Sidebar will not show special content for
that application; instead, it will show Global commands).
In addition to commands, this chapter covers special points of interest regarding Microsoft Word: ctfmon.exe
and the Voice Notation feature.
TIP for Windows XP: turning off CTFMON
After installing Dragon on a Windows XP operating system, errors may start appearing if the Microsoft Alternate
User Input application (ctfmon.exe) is also running. You can disable ctfmon.exe easily thanks to a checkbox on
the Miscellaneous tab of the Administrative Settings dialog box.
Administrative Settings is in the DragonBar’s Tools menu. Note: before opening it, Dragon needs to close the
current profile, therefore a manual action is then needed.
“Voice Notations” in Microsoft Word documents
The higher editions of Dragon let you add “Voice Notations” in Word: text that can later be used with Word's
Accept/Reject Change functionality. A Notation could be anything you do not want permanently in your
document or you do not want transcribed, e.g. instructions you speak for the benefit of your assistant. Voice
Notations are not used by the Acoustic and Language Model Optimizer.
To add a Voice Notation, press the Esc key while dictating. Voice Notations are highlighted in green and
formatted as red italic text.
Commands specific to Microsoft Word
For applications like Word, Dragon has so many commands (and many different wordings for most commands),
that we couldn’t possibly list them all here or in the Sidebar.
If you are working in a supported application and you encounter an action you’d like to perform by voice, use
the Command Browser’s Context list to pick that application and use its Filter to see just the commands that
contain a particular word or words. If you see a command that looks interesting, make sure it’s highlighted in
the list, then use the Browse menu to uncover its full wordings (for instance, to include all optional words or
expand ellipses.)
TIP: If you say what you think is a command but Dragon takes no action or just transcribes the words on the
screen, look for the Results indicator (see the View tab of the Options dialog). If it does not show your
command (with a thick border around it), Dragon did not recognize what you said as a valid command for the
current situation: for instance, if you say "Insert a 2 by 2 table" when the insertion point is inside a table,
nothing happens because Word does not allow inserting a table inside a table.
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