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Dragon for Mac Forums and Discussion » Dragon Dictate » Using Dictate

font size

(6 posts)

  1. Larryjay
    Member

    in the notepad feature that opens on start up has extremely small font. I looked in preferences and elsewhere, but I do not see a place on her way to change this. Is there a way to make that default font size much larger?

    Larryjay

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. jma
    Member

    Laryjay - I had this same question earlier today. What seems to work is to go to text edit and in the preferences for that program, under the tab for "new document", make sure that Rich text is selected and then go to Font where you have a button that allows change of font. You can then select any font and point size you have available in your computer. After that, the next text edit document you open will apply your choices.

    If you want to work within Notepad rather than a text edit document, you can begin within text edit; select, copy, then paste -- even a single word -- into Notepad and your choice of font and point size will continue in the notepad document.

    I should add, this is my first day of playing with Dictate so I am probably the absolutely least experienced user among the people using this forum.

    Jma

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. jma
    Member

    Silly me. You can also open a notepad note, go to FORMAT (along the top), go to FONT, then SHOW FONTS and the window showing the available fonts and sizes provides your options. A little easier than the gymnastics of my previous post.

    Still, is there a reason to favor the use of Dictate's Notepad over TextEdit?

    jma

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. Larryjay
    Member

    thank you for your help. I suppose, the only reason for wishing to use the notepad is that it is always already open. I did try to trick you mentioned and it does work.

    Thanks again
    Larry Jay

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. MoonWalker
    Member

    If you say the command "Make Selection Bigger", it will make the text larger. You can either do this before dictation and have the dictate text larger, or you can "select all" and then say the command to have what you selected larger. Even though it seems like you would only be able to use it to make the selection bigger (hence the name of the command), it works more like a toggle to raise the font size. Same thing works with "Make Selection Bold" or italic, or underlined.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. Blair
    Member

    You can create a global command that calls the "Format->Font->Bigger" menu item.

    Increasing the font size of the notepad has been a problem for me also, the method I described above works beautifully.

    Now I just say "increase font size" and any selected text is enlarged.

    Hope that helps.

    Posted 4 years ago #

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