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  1. Dragon 10 Voice Shortcuts for Email and Calendar in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional and higher. Try “Send email to Fred Flinstone”.
  2. In NaturallySpeaking Legal, Medical or Med Ent. 10 for transcription, create “No dictation available” profile to not have to plug in mic.
  3. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Extras toolbar aids transcription. Click the double chevron ︾ on the DragonBar or say “Show/Hide Extras Bar”
  4. Want to say a key combination in Dragon NaturallySpeaking? Say “Press/Type <key name(s)>” such as “Press Control O” to get “Ctrl+O”
  5. Dragon 10.1 now available for all Dragon products including Medical. Med 10.1 has new features too. Go to http://tinyurl.com/Dragon10-1
  6. Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software commands for direct formatting: “Bold | Underline | Italicize word(s)” New in V10!
  7. NaturallySpeaking option: Tools > Correction > ‘“Correct” commands bring up Spell dialog box’ allows quick correction with “Correct word(s)”
  8. Already have Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10? Get 10.1 for Vista 64-bit support and more at www.nuance.com/vista/naturallyspeaking/Dragon10.1
  9. In Dragon NaturallySpeaking Legal or Medical, try the Auto-Transcribe Folder Agent for background transcription. (It’s in the Start Menu.)
  10. Can’t uninstall Dragon Naturally Speaking? Here are NaturallySpeaking removers: www.tinyurl.com/DNSRemovers Back up user files first!!!
  11. To see words you’ve added in NaturallySpeaking, say “Edit Vocabulary” or go to Words > View/Edit. Choose “Custom Words Only” under Display.
  12. Trying to migrate from the Olympus DS4000 to DS5000 digital recorder? Upgrade your DSS Player R4 to R5 for free and support both recorders.
  13. Word or phrase misrecognizing in Dragon Naturally Speaking? Say “Train Words” OR select word/phrase already in your doc and say “Train That”
  14. Move mouse quickly & hands-free with NaturallySpeaking “MouseGrid” command. Say “MouseGrid 9 9 9 Click” to go to bottom right of screen.
  15. Add a second NaturallySpeaking dictation source – microphone, recorder, etc. Go to: NaturallySpeaking/Dragon > Open User > Source > New
  16. View/edit words/phrases & their properties in the Naturally Speaking Vocabulary Editor. Say “Edit Vocabulary” or go to Words > View/Edit.
  17. New Dragon Voice Shortcuts for Web Search in Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred and higher. Try “Search the web for movies in Raleigh”.
  18. Dragon NaturallySpeaking added documentation is on DVD under Documentation/enx or visit www.tinyurl.com/DNSDoc
  19. Using NaturallySpeaking on multiple PCs? Set up “roaming user” to keep data synch’ed. Close user then go to Tools > Administrative Settings.
  20. Add phrase to Dragon NaturallySpeaking to nail its recognition & formatting. Select phrase & say “Make That a Phase” then “Add”.