If you have selected some text, and that selection contains less than a certain number of characters, the next words you say will replace the selection.

 

If that selection contains more than a certain number of characters, Dragon flashes a message near the DragonBar, saying that the selection is too large to replace.

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to set the maximum number of characters to a different value? For me, the number of characters is too low. And I have clients for whom the default value might be too high.

We know how your client feels and run into this problem with our <dictation> commands. Unfortunately, character number limits are hardcoded and cannot be edited by the end-user

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I think saying "scratch that" before starting to dictate the replacement will have the same effect but not suffer from the overwrite character number limitation.

 

hth

mav

I think I have posted this before, but actually, the value isn't fixed. It seems like the current default is set to 299 characters, but it is one of the Dragon engine options which are accessible via the SDK, and it can be modified from within an Advanced Scripting, for example, using the appropriate "getter and setter" functions.

Have a look at this, but don't push your luck resetting the maximum too high.

Dim eng As New DgnEngineControl
MsgBox "Previous setting: " + eng.Option(dgnengoptionMaxReutterReplacement)
eng.Option(dgnengoptionMaxReutterReplacement) = 350
MsgBox "New setting: " + eng.Option(dgnengoptionMaxReutterReplacement)

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You can also add the following line to your options.ini, located in the user profile, folder "Currect":

Max Reutter Replacement=n

with n being the number of characters. This was actually posted by Rüdiger some 8 years ago:
https://knowbrainer.com/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=19822&enterthread=y

HTH, Stephan

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Thank you very much, Stephan, for reminding me of this which I had actually forgotten, same as I seem to keep forgetting how brilliant I used to be back in the day. :-)

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Thank you!