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4 Working on your Desktop Opening lists and making selections You can activate any list box by saying the list box name. To open a list box: 1 Say the name of the list box you want to open. 2 Say "Show Choices," "Drop List," or "Open List." The list box opens to show all the choices available in the list. To make a selection from an open list 1 Say the full name of the selection. 2 Say "Move Down" or "Move Up" and the number of places your selection is from the current selection. Pressing keyboard keys You can activate Windows® menus and controls by pressing keys. With Dragon NaturallySpeaking you can "press" any key on your keyboard by voice. You can press letters, numbers, modifier keys (SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT), and so on. You can say "Press," "Press Key," or "Type"-all three voice commands work the same way. NOTE "Scratch That" will not erase keystrokes dictated with the Press Key commands. You must select the text by voice or mouse and delete it or say "Press Delete." Pressing letters You can press any letter on your keyboard by saying "Press" and then the letter. When you're pressing letters, you must say "Press" before each one. For example, to enter "txt," say "Press t," "Press x," "Press t," pausing between letters. TIP You can also spell words using Spell mode. See "Switching Recognition Modes" on page 101 for more information. For similar-sounding letters (such as b, d, and v), you can use the International Communications Alphabet (page 178) to "spell" the letter keys, for example, "Press alpha" or "Press bravo" or say "Press d as in David," and so on (you can also say "Press 32 Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide