• If you're working in an application or browsing the Internet and you need to send an email to colleagues, just say, "Send email to Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez," and Dragon will activate your email program, create a new email and put the contact names or contact groups you've said into the "To:" box.
• For new meetings or appointments, you can say, "Schedule meeting with Jon Smith and Raphael Sanchez," and Dragon Medical initiates the process by opening a new calendar entry in Outlook and adding to it the selected contact(s).
• You can also say, "Schedule appointment with Design Team" or "Schedule an event with All Employees" using existing contact lists.

1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the "natspeak.exe" file, located by default in the subdirectory  C:\ProgramFiles\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\Program.
2. Right click the Natspeak.exe file and select Send to > Desktop (Create Shortcut).
3. Close Windows Explorer and locate the file Shortcut to Natspeak.exe on your desktop.
4. Right click the Shortcut to Natspeak.exe file and select Rename. Rename the shortcut "Dragon John" or "Dragon Medical David" etc.  
5. Right click the newly created shortcut and select Properties.
6. Edit the Target line adding: /user <user path>\<user name>.
   For example, a Target line for a user login name "jsmith" would look like this: "C:\Program Files\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\Program\natspeak.exe" /user "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking10\Users\jsmith"
7. Click Apply and then Ok.
8. Double click the shortcut to test.

For more information, entitled users may login to iSupport and search for solution 13486: "Configure Dragon Desktop Shortcut to Automatically Open User." If you are not an iSupport subscriber, click iSupport Timesaver for more information.

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Assign a command to the Nuance PowerMic

1. Launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical.
2. On the Menu bar, click Tools and select Options.
3. In the Options dialog box, click the PowerMic tab.
4. Click the drop down box associated to the PowerMic button of choice.
5. Choose a command from any of the built in macro categories (applications, dictation, navigation, etc.) or choose User Commands to select from your custom commands.
6. Click OK to close the options dialog box.
7. Test your command by pressing the PowerMic button you assigned the command to.

 Create a custom command

 

One type of a custom command you can create is the emulation of a keystroke or combination of keystrokes. For example, custom commands could be Ctrl+ESC to open the Windows Start menu or Alt+F+S to save a MS Word document. Refer to the Help file for more information about custom command types.  

 

For example, here's an ideal custom command for a physician whose workstation is located in a public area. This physician often finds the need to quickly minimize a window which displays a patient report. You can create a custom command to immediately minimize a window which, in this physician's case, would quickly remove the patient report from public view.