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I was going to post this the other day, but I got too busy to do so...lol.

My spellchecker is not correcting.  When it stops on a word, I will correct it and submit but when I go back to look at the report the word is still spelled wrong.  Anybody know how to fix that?  Have never had a problem with it before. 

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a way to transfer my autotext files from Word 2003 into Chartscript so that I don't have to build a whole new Expander list?  Getting ready to start a new job and was just wondering.  I haven't got a clue!

Thanks

words in the glossary? 

I tried Control B and typed IMPRESSION:  in glossary Editor window but when <<IMPRESSION>> came up on Meditech screen, it was not blue as words are when bold in Meditech. 

Thank you.

Surely someone else has encountered this problem.  Well, we got a brand spankin' new Dell XPS 420 to our door yesterday!  It is wonderful... I just have a slight problem.  Had Word 2007 loaded onto it and now trying to figure out how to convert my normal.dot from Word 2003 to this.  Any help?  It is loaded with a ton of info that I REALLY need. 

TIA

Hi,

You know a lot about Shorthand, right?  I've used it for awhile but not to its full potential.  I'm not that good with commands and cannot figure out how to set up the command for the nonbreaking hyphen.  Shoot, I've just tried to do this in Word alone and couldn't get it to work there either.  Do you happen to know how to do this?  I asked on the board a couple days ago and got some answers but nothing elementary enough for my brain! 

I recently put installed Microsoft word 2005 in my computer. I use MT world for my job.  Every time I send something after I type to update it sits in updating document for a long time. Has any one else have this problem or have a solution.   No one else in else at the job has this problem but me. 

I'm working my first MT job and the docs are all Indian ESL's.  One doc is fine when dictating stuff like height and weight, but as soon as he comes to drug names or procedures (he's an anesthesiologist) he talks rapid fire and his accent is incomprehensible.  I'm afraid I will lose this job because I cannot get his accent.  He says inviolabile for available. Oxnin for Oxycontin.  Menfarm for Metformin.  I almost cry when I get muy corrected copy back see the mistakes I've made. 

I've spent hours on two or three words and figure that I am averaging about $1.50 an hour at this point. My son makes more working at Arby's.  Is there any hope?  Should I plow my way through it or ask the MT company for a different doctor?

does anyone know if FlashType is compatible with ChartMatrix?

My husband might be diagnosed with oral cancer.   He has had a lump in his cheek for awhile and wasn't really concerned about it until he went to the doctor for a check-up.  The doc is sending him to have it looked at more thoroughly.  Any words of encouragement or anyone that has gone through this.  Thanks 

The Difference between Focusing on Problems and Focusing on Solutions

Case 1

When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space,they found out
that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the
writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and
$12million.

They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down,
underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a
temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C.
And what did the Russians do...??

They used a pencil.
 

Case 2

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was
the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan's biggest
cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a
consumer  had bought a soap box that was empty. Immediately the authorities
isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the
packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department.For some reason,
one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its
engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard
to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two
people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure
they were not empty.

No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a
whoopee amount to do so. But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company
was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays,
etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong
industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the
fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty
boxes out of the line.
 
Moral
Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution.

What is the fastest, most accurate way you proofread?  I have been playing back my reports from the beginning of it on fast chipmunk sounding speed.  I catch myself making exapander errors a lot. I

 absolutely have to proofread as I usually catch at least 2 per report before I send them.  Trying to proofread 'as I go' does not work for me as I still find mistakes when I am done.  What is the Fastest way of doing this?  Does  anyone have any advice?  Thank you muchos.

I took a test that was so long and involved that it was hardly worth the effort.  I got through the test and did well other than a couple of silly mistakes that I probably should have caught, nothing major, but I had listened to that long voice file and read and reread the report so many times I finally sent it on.  Anyway, I got the results back and wow, talk about PICKY!  Again, I had only missed a couple of small things, but I got reamed in email over it.  I should say that the dictator and the sound quality were absolutely horrendous.  The dictator spoke with an incredibly thick foreign accent and with the "far off distance" sound quality it was amazing that I could make out any of it.  This company should be thrilled that anyone bothered to even try to transcribe the test file, especially as long as it was, and I also can't imagine they have many people who want to work for them or stay with them.

I hope this link works.  I wanted to show you who keeps me company every day while I transcribe--unless she runs off to sleep half the day, which I wish I could do!!!  When she's not around, the birds visit the feeders in the window.

http://mtblab.blogspot.com/2006/08/office-pet.html

Hi,

Wondering if anyone wants to get together in the chat room.  LOL, that sounds a little scary.  No seriously, I am always looking to see if anyone is in the chat room and never a person there.  Anyone interested in meeting in there for some chatting?

My mom recently obtained an account and is needing to integrate digitally. She needs to purchase software in order to be able to transcribe their dictation. They are currently dialing into an 800# and putting in a pin # to dictate. Does anyone have any direction as to what she may need? Docshuttle??? I am completely clueless but I offered to help her find out what she needs. Any info would be greatly appreciated! THANX

Needing to replace my old computer for a new one. I need to get a really deal on a really fast computer. Help, please, with your experiences.

The Med. Trans. Accredited Assoc?  I mean, that doesn't even exist.

Here is why I ask....I am seriously considering starting my own MT school/training program. I already have 2 students! I have the time, exp and knowledge right now in my career to take on a few newbies and help them along. I had the best training on-the-job with exp. MTs helping me along with my first job answering questions and new MTs need that!!

I am charging for my time and they are paying it! I have on-line access to a med. term and anatomy course, and am looking into lab, path, rad, pharm, and other courses to offer in the future. 

So, they will already put my business down on their resume upon completion, but I want to give them a diploma with my co. name on it.  I know I can do that.  But how does one become accredited after a while? Are many of the MT schools accredited? Who accredits them, I wonder.

I am itching to contact the AAMT about getting them involved, but the more I read the more I see that they are not highly regarded right now....

Thanks everyone.

PS:  I am a regular on this board.