# Correcting mistakes and editing text

You can correct text that has been incorrectly recognized or delete text that you decide you don't want.

If what you say isn't recognized correctly, we highly recommend correcting the text yourself, immediately, before you close the report. Don't have someone else correct your text later.

You don't need to correct each field before moving the speech focus to a new field. However, make sure that all the text is correct before you close the report.

If single words are not being recognized correctly, delete the whole phrase instead and say it again; avoid correcting one word at a time.

To correct text by overwriting it, select it and say or type what you want written instead.

You can manually correct text while the speech recognition system is listening or after you have stopped it. For correction via voice, the system must be listening.

You can correct text both manually and via voice while the speech recognition system is still processing what you have said (the progress indicator is circling) or when all recognized text is displayed. If you select text via voice and then manually change the cursor position or type in text, wait until the voice command is executed; selection changes via voice are overridden by manual operations.

You can paste text that you have copied from other documents into any speech-enabled field.

#### Voice commands - deleting text

Say scratch that to delete the last thing you said.

If you say something by mistake, say scratch that as soon as you realize; it isn't necessary to wait until the text is displayed.

For more information, see: Deleting text.

You can select single words, phrases, whole sentences or punctuation marks. The range of the commands is approximately one page up and down.

Say select and the text you want to correct or select <text> to <text> for longer text passages, then say or type what you want written instead.

Once text is selected you can go to previous or later occurrences of the text. These commands are only available after selecting text via voice.

Say select previous to go to the next occurrence to the left.

Say select next to go to the next occurrence to the right.

Other commands for selecting text are select all, select this word, select next word, select previous word, select first word and select last word (you can also select sentences and paragraphs).

#### Correction menu

When you use voice commands to select text, the correction menu is displayed. The correction menu lists alternative speech recognition results and additional functionality; for example, you can add the selected text to the vocabulary or make it an auto-text.

#### Voice commands - vocabulary tuning

Say do not recognize that word to remove the selected word from the vocabulary.

Say add that to vocabulary to add the selected word to the vocabulary.

For more information, see: Managing the vocabulary.

Say resume with <text> to go to a specific text position and delete everything between the current cursor position and the named text position.