TABLE OF CONTENTS DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKINGTHE 100 COMMANDS YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOWA VISUAL GUIDE
DRAGON NATURALLY
SPEAKING
the 100 commands you
really need to know
A visual guide for everyday commands
in Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Simon Thompson
Produced by TuitionZone Ltd
In conjunction with SpeakingDragon
2014
No part of this document may be reproduced in any format without the written permission of TuitionZone Ltd © 2014
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NOTES AND INTRODUCTION
First of all, thanks for buying this guide
–I really hope you find it useful.
This guide is meant to be a ‘ready reckoner’, for quick and precise info on the commands in Dragon, and when and how to use them. It’s designed to complement the SpeakingDragon Commands Charts and provides you with ongoing support for using Dragon once you’ve got going.
When I first started using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I remember being very frustrated at the difficulties of finding/remembering ‘simple’ commands when dictating in Microsoft Word – a situation only marginally improved by the introduction of the Dragon Sidebar.
One disadvantage of Dragon, compared to using a keyboard, is that the actual ‘mechanics’ of dictation - i.e. writing, correcting and editing text - is not supported through procedural memory and hand/eye co-ordination: everything has to be carried out using other parts of memory (or externally prompted) and then converted into speech. Speaking may be natural but - in this context - it takes a while for it to feel normal.