Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 6

Basic Formatting in Text-Editing Applications

In This Chapter

Using left and right alignment

Centering a paragraph

Creating numbered or bulleted lists

Using italic, bold, and underlined text

Changing font size and style

Text that is all the same font, size, and style can be pretty boring. Because of advances in web design, everyone’s expectations for design are higher. Formatting puts some zing into your content and makes it exciting. Your favorite applications are, most likely, loaded with formatting buttons and icons. You can, of course, continue to use them, but NaturallySpeaking lets you produce many of the same results with voice commands.

In this chapter, I tell you about voice commands especially for formatting, like “Bold That.” As Chapter 20 discusses, you can also choose formatting commands from the Learning Center by using general-purpose voice commands, but those take longer. Save those for other applications. In the NaturallySpeaking DragonPad (and specific ...