Helpful Dragon Voice Commands for Dictating Text
Basic Dictation and Editing Commands
Note: For all commands, you may download this cheat sheet from Nuance Download cheat sheet from Nuance.
To Do This |
Say This |
|---|---|
| Add a line | "New line" or "Press Enter" |
| Begin a new paragraph | "New paragraph" |
| Press the Tab key | "Tab" or "Press Tab key" |
| Undo your work (as with Control-Z) | "Undo" or "Undo that" or "Scratch that" or "Restore that" |
| Delete words or characters | "Backspace" or "Delete word or phrase" or "Delete from word to word" |
| Format text | "Select word" or "Select word through word" and then use one of these commands: "Capitalize that," "Bold that," "Center that," "Left align that," and so on. |
| Go to the end of the document | "Go to end" |
| Go to a specific place in a document | "Resume with text at that location" |
| Copy or cut text | Select the word, then "Copy [cut] that," or use "Copy [cut] that" |
| Insert copied or cut text elsewhere in the document | "Insert before [after] word" |
| Click a button or icon (such as in the Microsoft Office Ribbon), or access program menus (options in the File menu, for example) | "Click name of button," "Click Save," "Click File, Save As," and so on. |