Dictating Keystrokes, Symbols, Punctuation. Dragon Naturally Speaking version 15.3 (Part 1) DR050

In this episode we continue our look at Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows, version 15.3. This time we start to look at dictating keystrokes (a necessary skill if you want to take full advantage of voice dictation's speed), as well as punctuation and symbols. We also look at some regionalisation issues. The second part of this episode has been split off into episode 055.

The episode assumes that you're across the information that will be found in the videos in this playlist:    • Dragon Naturally Speaking Tutorials  

The episode contents are linked below if you're looking for something specific:
01:25 Episode contents.
01:55 Simulating keystrokes using voice dictation.
02:00 Typing Tab, Backspace, Delete or Space Bar. Using Type or Press, not Click.
02:50 Dictating the Control, Alt and Shift modifier keys to execute commands.
04:00 Lack of support for Alt codes. (Where you hold down a modifier key and type a sequence of characters.)
05:30 When you can't remember the name of a symbol; how to type a caret ( ^ ) symbol.
06:30 The confusion about the name of the hash / pound sign ( # ) and the pound sterling ( £ ) symbol.
08:05 Repeating the input of a single character. (Or not, unless it's the Tab key.)
08:45 Do you use the word "sign" or "symbol" when dictating?
09:00 Currency signs, and Dragon's automatic formatting relating to this.
11:00 Ampersands ( & signs, or "and signs").
11:10 Apostrophes, and Microsoft Word's allegedly "Smart Quotes".
12:13 Turning off Smart Quotes in Microsoft Word.
13:00 Asterisks or stars.
13:10 @ signs, as well as e-mail addresses.
14:50 Backslashes, forward slashes, slashes and strokes.
15:20 Backticks and backquotes, and their misuse as grave accents.
16:53 The Carat again, and the Circumflex.
17:30 Colons, semi-colons and the mythical numeric colons.
18:33 Commas, and the auto-add option for commas. Also the use of commas for number formatting.
20:02 The Equal Sign.
20:34 Emoticons. No, I'm not kidding. Also, why you can't say "type" for these.
21:35 Minus signs.
22:05 Tildes.
22:41 Underscores.
22:50 The vertical bar / pipe / bar symbol
22:33 Exceptions to the "say sign, not symbol" rule. The section symbol, trademark symbol, copyright symbol and registered trademark symbol.