Using DragonPad

While Dragon offers dictating and editing capabilities in most applications, you can also use the DragonPad to dictate and edit your text, then transfer it into your document or text field.

If you want to mix dictation and typing in an unsupported application, use DragonPad to avoid navigation errors. See Mixing dictation with typing for more on this topic.

DragonPad allows you to:

• Dictate text
• Use Correction
• Select and replace text
• Cut, copy and paste
• Adjust capitalization and spacing

You cannot apply text formatting such as bold or italic.

To dictate and transfer text

1. Make sure the target application – the application you want to dictate into – is open, and the cursor is in the field where you want the text to appear.
2. Say Show DragonPad, or click the icon in the menu bar and select Help > DragonPad.

The target application should appear in the Title Bar.


3. Dictate your text.
4. Revise your text as needed.
5. Say Click Transfer or click the Transfer button.

DragonPad closes, and the text you dictated appears in the target application.

Closing DragonPad

To close DragonPad without transferring the dictated text:

• Say Hide DragonPad.

Or

• Click the icon in the upper left corner of the DragonPad window.

Your text is automatically saved, and will appear next time you open DragonPad.