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Dictating Numbers, Punctuation, and Special Characters
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In dialects other than US/Canada, you can say “bracket” instead
of “parenthesis.”
See also Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone
numbers on page 106.
Automatic formatting of dates, times, telephone numbers
To indicate how you want dates, times, telephone numbers, and
other numbers automatically formatted:
1 On the DragonBar, select Tools > Auto-Formatting. The Auto-
Formatting dialog box appears.
2 Click the check box labeled Format Dates and select the
format you want from its drop-down list. For instance, select
Month D, YYYY or D/M/YY.
3 Click the check box labeled Format times. Dragon then
formats times based on your Regional Settings in Windows.
4 To have hyphens added to a phone number automatically,
click the check box labeled Phone numbers (all other editions).
5 You can also click the check box for Prefer 5 million over
5,000,000.
6 Other formats you can click check boxes for on this tab
include United Kingdom and Canadian postal codes and
several non-numeric formats that involve using common
abbreviations, expanded contractions, abbreviations of units
of measure and titles (such as Mr., Ms., Dr.), and formats for
web and email addresses as well as street addresses.
7 If you have any edition, click OK to save the settings and
close the dialog box.
Fractions
You can dictate most common fractions the way you would
normally say them. To dictate 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9,
TIP: