-Edgar
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Out of curiosity:

How does <dictation> behave in contrast to <xyz> (you know, like in "Select XYZ Command")?

If you say "select <xyz>", this xyz has to be a substring of the current editor's text, otherwise the command will not fire. Dragon builds this selection grammar every time the contents of the editor have changed.

<dictation>, in contrast, is an arbitrary sequence of words, not neccessarily those already in your target window.

So in order to really achieve what you wanted in the beginning (strike through <xyz> I think we'd need a separate variable apart from <dictation>, but I don't think that this <xyz> can be used inside a command.

mav