Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

Dragon 12 Administrator Guide
5. Click Finish to close the Data Distribution Tool or click your browser's back button to re-display
the screen.
Adding and removing custom commands
Custom commands are voice commands that you can create and modify to enter text, insert graphics,
or activate menus and keystrokes in any application. You can use the MyCommands Editor
to create custom commands or the Command Browser to modify custom commands.
You can use the Data Distribution Tool to copy a set of custom commands to the data distribution
directory and make the set of custom commands available to all end-users at a particular
installation of Dragon.
Before you use the Data Distribution Tool, you must have already created a data distribution
directory, as explained in Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
Notes:
n The default installation of Dragon places custom commands for existing Dragon User Profiles
here (in Windows XP). See Dragon file structure for information on Windows 7 and other
operating systems.
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Nuance\NaturallySpeaking12\Custom\
n After you import the custom commands to Dragon, for the changes to become available to those
User Profiles, you must close your User Profiles, then re-open and save the User Profiles.
n You can enter a path as a complete local path, a relative path, a mapped network drive, a UNC
path, or the path to removable media, such as a DVD, CD, or ZIP drive. For more information,
see Using paths with nsadmin.
Prepare to use the Data Distribution Tool to export
custom commands
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1. In Dragon, create custom commands.
2. Use the Command Browser to export the custom commands to a .dat file, for example, New-
Commands.dat.
3. If you have not already created it, create the data distribution directory. For more information,
see Creating the Data Distribution Directory.
4. On each computer that an end-user uses for dictation, use the Data Distribution Tool to add
the .dat file to the data distribution directory. For more information, see Adding custom commands.