Jon,

You bring up some excellent points. I was unaware of the shortkeys program until Leslie mentioned it. I think that I was drawn to Dragon because I really am a lousy typist. It seems I'm constantly having to go back and make corrections when I type. You are correct, there are glitches with Dragon that I do have to correct on occasion. I tried to make the voice macros as simple as possible, for that very reason. As you may or may not know, Dragon allows you to train each voice command, so hopefully they'll be pretty consistent. Since I am not yet an AC user, I don't know how I'm going to like this in the long run, but so far I'm actually pretty encouraged. Although I've lived in New Jersey, the Midwest, the upper South and California, I don't really have a hard accent for any one place-and that probably makes the speech recognition a little bit easier. I've just dictated this entire reply, and had only two small corrections to make. And, I've only been playing around with Dragon for about two weeks. Time will tell!