Dragon Naturally Speaking Tips and Tricks – Formatting Numbers

In most cases, you can dictate numbers, including phone numbers and addresses, as you normally say them. (Dragon can differentiate the need to type out "eight cars" vs. using the numeral for "8 Chestnut Street.") If you want to dictate only numbers, such as when dictating in a spreadsheet program, you can turn on Numbers Mode within the Words menu of the DragonBar.

But how can you tell Dragon that you want to write the numeral "8" instead of writing out "eight?" Simply say "Numeral eight" to write the figure. In the example above, dictating "numeral eight cars" will generate the text: "8 cars."

In addition, Dragon 10 offers customers an enhanced Formatting Dialog Box to set options that affect your dictation. From the DragonBar, click Tools, then select Formatting. This menu lets you instruct Dragon to insert numbers as numerals if they are equal to or greater than the chosen value. If the number is less than the chosen value, the number is written out. From email newsletter.