Dragon Dictate 4 includes a plug-in that gives you Full Text Control there. It’s not in any email programs, unless you happen to use Gmail on its website. On the Mac, the list is much shorter: Notepad, TextEdit, Microsoft Word 2011, and Pages 4.3. In Windows, you get Full Text Control in all kinds of programs: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Outlook, Word, Notepad, WordPad, OpenOffice Writer, WordPerfect, and Excel. Unfortunately, if you’ve clicked elsewhere since you typed, forget it you’ve interrupted the river, and the dictation software no longer has any idea where it is in your document. If you now fix the error and say “Go back,” then the software walks the insertion point forward again to the point where you’d stopped. It thinks of your text as a continuous river, and the only way it can get back upstream is to swim there. In a program that doesn’t offer Full Text Control, if you say, “Select ‘four score and seven years ago,’ ” the speech software visibly walks the insertion point back through all the text until it reaches that spot, as though you were pressing the left-arrow key over and over. That’s Full Text Control: The dictation software can “read” and jump around in your document just as easily as you can.
In programs that offer Full Text Control, like Microsoft Word, you can say, “Select ‘four score and seven years ago.’ ” The Dragon software instantly highlights that phrase, several paragraphs back.
Suppose you’re typing (that is, speaking) along, and you want to change something you said two paragraphs earlier. It’ll take some explanation stay with me here. Here’s an example: a feature called Full Text Control. Unfortunately, the Mac version, Dragon Dictate, is not as mature or as polished as the Windows version.
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