Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 8

Dictating into Other Applications

In This Chapter

Dictating into any application

Using the Dictation Box for applications

Using Full Text Control applications

Using menus in other applications

You can get quite a bit done just by dictating into the NaturallySpeaking Dictation Box and then using cut-and-paste techniques to move the text into documents belonging to other applications or by clicking the Transfer button in the Dictation Box. But you haven’t seen the full potential of NaturallySpeaking until you’ve used it to dictate directly into other applications. At that point, NaturallySpeaking becomes an essential component of your computer, like the keyboard and the mouse.

In this chapter, I focus on general techniques that you can use with many applications, using the Dictation Box and Full Text Control in the NaturallySpeaking terminology. I tell you about the interactions you can expect in different sets of applications, plus the details. When you aren’t sure why something is working a certain way, you can turn here to at least find out how it should work.

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