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# File Menu

New Note Pad. Open a new empty Note Pad window.

New Command. Open the Commands window in the same state as if you had pressed the button to start creating a new command.

Open. Summon a standard File Open dialog where you can open an existing .rtf file as a Note Pad window.

Open Recent. Open a document recently edited as a Note Pad window.

Close. Close the active window (offering a chance to save if necessary).

Save. Save the current Note Pad window (as an .rtf file or plain text document).

Duplicate. Creates a duplicate of the current Note Pad window. To replicate the Save As... command that was found in earlier versions of OS X, create a duplicate of a Note Pad and enter a new name in the document’s title bar (and assign it a tag and change the file location, if you want). Or you can choose Save... -- you will be prompted to enter a file name when you save the document.

You can also hover the cursor next to the file name and click the down arrow that appears -- a dialog box will pop up and allow you to enter a file name; click anywhere in the Note Pad to dismiss it when you’re done.

Rename. Save the current Note Pad window under a new name.

Move To. Move the current Note Pad window to a new folder; you cannot change its name.

Revert To. Revert to the last saved version or select “Browse All Versions” to select a past revision through Time Machine.

Print.... Print the current Note Pad document.

Save Profile. Save the currently active profile’s data. Enabled only if you have done something (such as training the voice model) to affect the active profile. The active profile is saved automatically when you activate a different profile or quit Dragon Dictate; this menu item is just a “safety valve” for those wishing to make certain that changes in the profile are not lost in case of a power failure or similar unforeseen event.

Command Import. Summon a standard File Open dialog where you can open a .commandstext file (as created by the Command Export menu item). Opening such a file will incorporate the commands it contains, so that they will appear in the Commands window and the Available Commands window.

Command Export. Summon a dialog where you can select commands to export, followed by a standard File Save dialog where you can specify a name and location to save the commands as a .commandstext file. This is an XML file, but it is not intended to be user-editable; its purpose is to be imported with the Command Import menu item. Thus you can transfer custom commands between computers and users. You will also be prompted to save those commands’ trigger terms in a separate file that will automatically have -Terms.dynamictext appended to it.

ScriptPak Import. Like Command Import, but the type of file you can open is a ScriptPak, as exported from or created for iListen, a previous speech recognition application for Mac.