High Gary, The reason that this checkbox is recommended to be unchecked is to avoid cluttering your vocabulary with useless words. Once this box is checked, Dragon NaturallySpeaking adds every correction to the vocabulary. Over time, this leads to a lot of junk being added to the vocabulary. Therefore, the recommendation to leave this setting unchecked. It is certainly more convenient to keep this box checked however, if you do so, you must periodically trim your vocabulary. -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed. Rosenthal Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:27 AM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [j-say list] Re: Question about Dragon settings Gary-if you are referring to the checkbox on the Correction tab in the NaturallySpeaking Options which reads "Automatically add words to the vocabulary", we usually leave this enabled. -ed. From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Wunder Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 10:36 AM To: j-say Subject: [j-say list] Question about Dragon settings I see in the Corrections Menu for version 9, that there is an option to add corrected words to the Dragon dictionary, but J-Say suggests this option be turned off. What is the reason? Thanks list. Gary Wunder gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx