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Secret weapon = autohotkey |
- Start
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Open the Start screen
- Cancel
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Cancel the current action or dialog
- Start/stop listening
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Turn on/off listening mode
- Move speech recognition
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Move the Speech Recognition microphone bar
- Minimize speech recognition
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Minimize the microphone bar
- Press keyboard key; Press a; Press capital b; Press Shift plus a; Press Ctrl plus a
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Press any key on the keyboard [1]
- Delete; Backspace; Enter; Page Up; Page Down; Home; End; Tab
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Press certain keyboard keys without saying "press" first
- Press Windows C
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Open the charms bar
- Press Windows Q
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Open the Search charm
- Press Windows F
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Open the Search charm to search files
- Press Windows H
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Open the Share charm
- Press Windows I
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Open the Settings charm
- Press Windows K
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Open the Devices charm
- Press Windows O
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Lock the screen orientation (portrait or landscape)
- Press Windows Q
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Open the Search charm to search everywhere or within an open app (if the app supports app search)
- Press Windows S
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Open the Search charm to search Windows and the web
- Press Windows W
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Open the Search charm to search settings
- Press Windows Z
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Show the commands available in the app
Note
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Keep in mind Windows Z contextual info. Also: say what you want to do. For example, change to Celsius in the Weather app.
Use an app
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- Apps
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Show all apps (after
Start
) - Click File; Start; View
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Select any item by its name
- Click Recycle Bin; Click Computer; Click file name
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Select any item or icon
- Double-click Recycle Bin; Double-click Computer; Double-click file name
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Double tap or double-click any item
- Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to program name; Switch application
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Switch to an open app
- Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll left; Scroll right
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Scroll in one direction
- What can I say?
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Show a list of applicable commands
- Refresh speech commands
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Update the list of speech commands that are currently available
- How do I do something?
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View Windows Help and Support content about specific tasks [2]
- New paragraph; New line
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Insert a new paragraph or new line in a document
- Select word
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Select a word in a document
- Correct word
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Select a word and start to correct it
- Tab
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Insert a tab
- Literal word
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Insert the literal word for the next command (for example, you can insert the word "comma" instead of the punctuation mark)
- Numeral number
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Insert the numeral form of a number
- No space
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Don’t insert a space before the next word
- Go to word
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Put the cursor before a specific word
- Go after word
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Put the cursor after a specific word
- Go to start of sentence
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Go to the start of the sentence that the cursor is in
- Go to start of paragraph
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Go to the start of the paragraph that the cursor is in
- Go to start of document
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Go to the start of the document
- Go to end of sentence
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Go to the end of the sentence that the cursor is in
- Go to end of paragraph
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Go to the end of the paragraph that the cursor is in
- Go to end of document
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Go to the end of the current document
- Select word
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Select the word in the current document
- Select word range; Select word through word
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Select the word range in the current document
- Select all
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Select all text in the current document
- Select previous 20 words; Select previous 10 words
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Select a number of words before the location of the cursor
- Select next 20 words; Select next 10 words
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Select a number of words after the location of the cursor
- Select that
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Select the last text you dictated
- Clear selection
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Clear the selection on the screen
- Caps word
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Capitalize the first letter of the word
- All caps word
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Capitalize all the letters of the word
- No caps word
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Make all the letters in the word lowercase
- Change next 10 words to uppercase
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Change the next number of words to uppercase
- Change next 10 words to lowercase
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Change the next number of words to lowercase
- Delete word
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Select and delete specific words
- Delete previous sentence
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Delete the previous sentence
- Delete next sentence
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Delete the next sentence
- Delete previous paragraph
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Delete the previous paragraph
- Delete next paragraph
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Delete the next paragraph
- Delete that
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Delete the selected or last dictated text
All by name e.g.
, Comma
; Semicolon
. Period; Dot; Decimal point
: Colon
“ Open double quote; Open quote
” Close double quote; Close quote; Close inverted commas
' Apostrophe
‘ Open single quote
’ Close single quote
> Greater than sign
< Less than sign
/ Forward slash
\ Backslash
~ Tilde
@ At sign
! Exclamation mark; Exclamation point
? Question mark
# Number sign; Pound sign
$ Dollar sign
% Percent sign
^ Caret
( Open parenthesis; Open paren
) Close parenthesis; Close paren
_ Underscore
- Hyphen; Minus sign; Dash
– En dash
— Em dash
= Equal sign
+ Plus sign
{ Open brace; Open curly bracket
} Close brace; Close curly bracket
[ Open bracket; Open square bracket
] Close bracket; Close square bracket
| Vertical bar
:-) Smiley face
:-( Frowny face
;-) Winky face
™ Trademark sign
¾ Three quarter sign
¼ One quarter sign
½ One half sign
£ Pound sterling sign
& Ampersand; And sign
* Asterisk
Double slash
` Back quote
< Open angle bracket
> Close angle bracket
± Plus or minus sign
« Open angle quote
» Close angle quote
× Multiplication sign
÷ Division sign
¢ Cent sign
¥ Yen sign
§ Section sign
© Copyright sign
® Registered sign, Registered trademark sign
° Degree sign
¶ Paragraph sign
… Ellipsis; Dot dot dot
ƒ Function sign
Open an app
Open Paint; Open WordPad; Open app name
Switch to an open app
Switch to Paint; Switch to WordPad; Switch to app name; Switch application
Close an app
Close that; Close Paint; Close Documents
Minimize
Minimize that; Minimize Paint; Minimize Documents
Maximize
Maximize that; Maximize Paint; Maximize Documents
Restore
Restore that; Restore Paint; Restore Documents
Cut
Cut that; Cut
Copy
Copy that; Copy
Paste
Paste
Delete
Delete that; Delete
Undo
Undo that; Scratch that; Undo
Scroll in one direction
Scroll up; Scroll down; Scroll right; Scroll left
Scroll an exact distance in pages
Scroll down 2 pages; Scroll up 10 pages
Scroll an exact distance in other units
Scroll up 5; Scroll down 7
Go to a field in a form or an app
Go to field name; Go to Subject; Go to Address; Go to cc