In older versions of Dragon you could say Naturally Speaking and this would activate the Dragonbar so that you could access Tools View/Edit etc by voice.  I can't find a voice command in 11 to do this.  The population that I work with are disabled with little or no had function.

 Thanks

Linda

Linda,

You can say "Switch to Dragon Bar" and this will put the focus on the Dragon bar and from there, you can select either of the menus by voice, "Profile," "Tools," etc.  And from within there, the sub-menus.

Cheers

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Tiger Feet

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Linda,

In addition to Tiger's Sage advice and explanation, keep in mind that there are a number of changes in DNS 11-11.5 with regard to accessing various DNS utilities.

For example, in previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking you used to be able to say "open options" or "open formatting" in order to get to the Options or Auto-Formatting dialogs. In DNS 11-11.5 you have to say "show Dragon options" and/or "show Dragon formatting". However, as Tiger points out, you can get to those by selecting those options from the menus on the DragonBar. Knowing reason I point this out is that you may find circumstances and situations where previous DNS commands have changed.

Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC
Home of VoicePower®: We don't make Dragon NaturallySpeaking, We make it better!

"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends." Herbert Hoover

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