- The Golden Rule
- Undoing Dictation
- Navigating within a Document
- Selecting Text
- Modifying Text
- Adding Punctuation to Existing Text
- Proofreading Text
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Adding Punctuation to Existing Text
Dragon Dictate’s Surround the Word feature enables you to insert certain types of punctuation around text that has already been typed. All you do is issue a command that includes the type of punctuation you want with the word or phrase you want to punctuate. You can use this feature to surround text with quotes (double, single, straight, or smart), parentheses, brackets (square, curly, or angle), and Spanish punctuation (question marks and exclamation marks).
A complete table of the command possibilities would be too lengthy to include in this book. Instead, consult Table 4.5 for guidance on how to construct a valid Surround the Word command. Just take one component from each column to build your command.
Table 4.5. Commands for Inserting Punctuation Around Words
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To add punctuation to selected text:
Use a Select command (Table 4.3) to select the text you want to punctuate
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In this example, I said Select Surround the Wordto select some text ...- Say a command in the format
Putpunctuation typeAround The Selection(Table 4.5).
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The punctuation you specified is inserted around the selected text 
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... and then said Put Quotes Around the Selection to put double quotes around the selected text.
To add punctuation to existing text:
Say a command in the format Put punctuation type Around specified words (Table 4.5).
The punctuation type you specified is inserted around the text you specified 
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In this example I said Put Brackets Around Spanish and then said Put Parentheses Around or phrase.