I enlarge the print (helps!) & proof the whole thing.
Posted By: Flibertygibbit - nm on 2007-08-22
In Reply to: Poll- who reads/proofs reports after typing? - D
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The thing is though my fine print with ATT said it could not be used for
autodialing, dialing into the internet, commercial faxing, and one other thing. I can't remember what the other thing was but it wasn't anything I was using it for. They even listed those four things over and over, and I told them I didn't use it for any of those things. They also tried to tell me I was transmitting data over my phone line. I wasn't. I was dialing into a voice line. I got tired of arguing with them too. How can argue w/them when they keep saying you're dialing into the internet when you know you're not? I guess they have to lie about something, right, because they can't tell you you're using too many minutes if it's UNLIMITED. I just think it stinks. Hopefully it will work out for all of us!
Good thing I proof read LOL
I was just proofreading my reports before I send it and instead of typing that the lady hit her head on a window, I typed she hit her head on a widow. Ha Ha. I thought to myself - hope they weren't on the way to the funeral. Okay, having way too much fun here.
I don't think anything but the real thing helps. It just
takes practice. I think I'm pretty good with ESL, have done up to about 85% at one time, but there are some that are just a challenge and I don't think there is a program that will help. I say save your money. If I have an ESL for the first time and I have no samples I go all the way through the report, leaving blanks where necessary. I then go back through the report and I usually get most, if not all of the blanks, but if I have to leave a blank I don't worry about it. I save any corrections and then I have a sample for the next time.
The only thing that helps me and my kids is Zantac.
It takes the nausea right away. If I have none in the house, plain old peppermint candies work well also.
Good luck.
If there a way to enlarge the text in
Stedman's Spellchecker. My eyes aren't what they used to be and I find that with the small print it is difficult to distinguish between spellings if it brings up suggestions.
Word enlarge
Go to the toolbar at the top and click on view, then zoom at the bottom and then you can enlarge 150% to 200% or whatever you want.
You can print a list in the print dialog box. sm
You'll find the option in the print what section. You can probably find a macro that lists them all in a document with a web search. Otherwise, you can only print them.
You could just enlarge all type in your monitor resolution. nm
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POLL - Do you proof as you go or proof when finished? sm
I proof after, but would love to proof during. I'm working on it. I'm curious as to what percentage of MTs proof as they go or proof at the end?
Thx for responding.
Make sure it's ok on the receiving end to enlarge. Sometimes it screws up the printing
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MT, proof as I go. ME, go back and proof afterwards
I have only been editing 3-4 months, and I find I make at least twice the stupid mistakes on ME as with MT, so I do scan the ME reports --find double periods, caps where they are not supposed to be -- stupid stuff.
good luck!
And do NOT print for them! this is why...sm
you need to just send the stuff back to their office. Again don't be driving around doing the delivery thing. Explain that HIPAA doesn't want you keeping the reports any longer than necessary to do billing, so after you bill, you need to delete the reports. They need to have them in their office, to archive and keep a back up copy in case the office floods and ruins their charts. When you send them back, they can change the little things that the doc dictated wrong themselves...they don't have to wait until you have your next delivery run. So let them mess with the dumb sticky paper...or better yet, do a cost analysis that shows it is just as good to stick it in the chart with tape than to buy that paper. That way, they will be impressed with your business acumen...
wow I need to print all of this
thanks so much - no I would never work if I was at DD boyfriend's on who knows what network. I was just going to see if it worked. If I am at house with cable internet it should be as secure as mine. I don't think I would every try working at a Starbucks. The place I vacation actually has high speed internet so I could connect directly to that. Cell phone coverage is spotty there at best, so air card would probably be worthless. Thanks again - I am beginning to understand what I was afraid I would never grasp.
I use ShortHand. I used to print out all of my
expansions and tape the pages all over my desk, but it didn't help. What did help was finding out from someone here that ShortHand has a suggestion box that displays your expansions for you. I remember the first letter or two, glance down quickly to see what the ending was, hit the corresponding function key, and bam! three keystrokes to faster transcribing. Instant Text has a similar feature, but I couldn't switch over to it after learning on Shorthand.
how did you get your print to be so small?
if you are for real, your best advice is read this board and take good notes.
To print list
You can print a list of all of the "autotext" by opening word, FILE, PRINT (or ALT F, P) and in bottom Lft corner in the "Print What" section select "Autotext entries" and OK. If you have a lot this will print a lot mine would do about 150 pages.
BE AWARE - This will print everything. You can print just a list of the AUTOCORRECT entries but you have to creat a macro which is not hard. This too however will print all of the autocorrects, like when it automatically changes "adn" to "and". But, if you have to have this list you can just run through and delete the normal corrections and keep a list of your entries.
If you want to email me I will be more than happy to send you the instructions and the macro. It was simple to do, just a matter of making sure the macro info was in the right spot.
Save and print
I print and deliver, save on hard drive for one year and then on CD or zip forever it seems. Finally went through and threw out files from 10 years ago.
Have a Dell 720 and the print is so
small, can hardly read. I have the zoom up to 500 on a particular page- the print on the computer huge but when it prints, back down to really small, anyone know what I can do to get regular print? TIA
HELP! HP Deskjet won't print
This has happened to me before but I do not remember what I did to fix it. Whatever I send to print will just sit there and forever say its printing but doesn't. The scanner and copier works on the *&# thing. I have tried rebooting, unpluging, etc. Nothing. HELP
If you have the capability print out
a few reports and if you can go back and listen to the dictation while following along in the report.
I started a job several years ago, having had very minimal ESL experience. The very first day they gave me ALL ESL dictators, some very challenging. I was in tears and ready to quit after the first day. The MTSO told me that I really did very well and I printed out corrected reports. After relistening I could clearly understand the dictation when following along with my sample. I couldn't believe that I couldn't hear parts of it the first time.
Doctors slur, they eat while dictating, yawn, they misspell words. As you gain experience you will know what the doctor should be saying, which should help you decipher the dictation. Leaving a blank isn't a bad thing, and it is better than guessing. If you learn from your mistakes that is good. If you continue the make the same mistakes, leave the same blanks, etc. then that isn't a good thing.
Do the bet you can. If you need help ask for it. It sounds like you need to talk to your supervisor and/or QA to get some feedback
Correct. You would not have to print it out
before faxing. You would just fax the document.
There is a Print Screen Button..
at the top line of your keyboard. Press it and then go to your Windows paint and > Edit > Paste it there.
Capture/Print Screen
Another option is to hold down the "ALT" key and then press the "PRT SCR" key, then open a document (Word or whatever) and Click "Paste"... this will insert a picture of the screen into your document, which you can then save for future reference. Hope this helps. /bah
Sometimes you can pull them up in the expander but not print from there.
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how do I print my shorthand entries
Anyone know how to print up all the entries in the dictionary?
TIA!
Sunny
Thank you MT stars for the beautiful print. I am going to have it
framed and hang it in my living room. I think you are doing a great thing with the Santa's House project, too.
How to print up Quickcorrect/words
In word perfect? I cant figure out how to print up my lists in QuickCorrect or QuickWords.
Please share, if anyone knows.
TIA!
What a sweetie you've got. Going to print out your
message & leave it laying somewhere so my hubby will see it :o) I'm 5' and with my chair all the way down, I have to sit on the front edge of the chair so I can reach my foot pedal. Killing my back & circulation !!
Was tickled to read the other replies. Really was beginning to wonder if I was about the only female left that was of short stature.
Just out of curiosity - where do you find clothes that fit?? I'm not only short, but small-boned, & finding it impossible to find clothes anymore that are "age-appropriate":o)
Yes there is a way to print your auto correct
There is a free download for a macro program that backs up your auto correct file. You can print it..save it..and restore your autocorrect file with it. I love it. I have 3 computers and I use this to keep all of them up to date with my auto correct entries.
I dont think I can post a link here on this board. If you email me at Loveyaheart@aol.com I will be glad to give you the link for the download.
I email it back, they print. -
So far they are running it off who knows in the future but to me it looks so weird having it go out on six pages of letterhead.
maybe corrupt print driver?
Hi,
If you are starting the fax process by printing to a fax printer, then chances are good the print driver has gotten corrupted. (Common with all print drivers.)
If this is the case, then (1) delete the fax-print driver from Control Panel | Printers and Faxes, and then (2) reinstall the print driver.
After install, send a test fax (not a real transcription) to see if the problem has been fixed.
vJoe
I got a print out with color photos of my
colonoscopy integrated into the dictation. It's already here in the US
How do you print your expander list?
How do you print your whole ShortHand expansions? I knew once how to do it but cannot remember it. I was playing around with it earlier and actually lost one of my dictionaries for my current new account! I have a couple of other old accounts with useful expansions, but why did I have to lose this one! I was really cruising with my lines. How the heck does that even happen? I'm so upset about that but had to start over with putting everything back in it. I know I need to save it to backup, but still...
Thanks for your help!
Re office staff to print
No, the office staff are not allowed access to the 2 PCs and they still work with a handwritten appointment book as well as only fax facilities and no internet at work... this is the reason I have to cut & paste WP doc into Word and e-mail to doc's home e-mail so wife can e-mail the report. This is really a mess I have myself in... and Im starting to throw tantrums now! I corrected him yesterday morning on a mistake he corrected me and now its spite on his side to pay me back because how dare I take a printout from physician website with the correct spelling and show him his mistake - my reports gets marked like a school teacher grading it big circles with messages "I spelt this for you a few months ago, you should know it by now!!!" etc
How to print out Shorthand list?
I am trying to print off the words I have put in to shorthand, but I can't pull it up in Microsoft word. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? It is showing as a SPF file, whatever that is.
Print shorthand words
Try associating the file with something like WordPad. Right click on file, choose "open with", "choose program" and choose wordpad. You should be able to print it from that program.
how to print out shorthand list
I have the same problem. Mine comes up as an ACL file and when I right click to open with (Word pad, Word, or Adobe) I get jumbles boxes. Have any other ideas to help pring this list?
Thankx
How do I print what I have saved in PC Shorthand?
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Are documents set to print getting hung up
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To my knowledge, you can't print the physicians'....sm
list and I doubt they are in there by specialty, too. You can print the contents of your ESP file if you save it to your desktop and then print it. Hope this helps.
MS Word - print preview - sm
Don't know what I did, but when I "print preview" in a multipage document I now get two pages side-by-side instead of just a single page at a time.
If anyone can tell me how to change the setting, if that is what needs to be done, I would appreciate it.
Thank you
I proof as I go...nm
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I proof after - sm
I finish typing...every line of every single report that leaves my desktop. I may find a typo (and, of, or, etc.) rarely, but I still proofread. It's just something that I do .
I proof after.
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I proof after
Depending on the report/dictator I can proof during... but I find I catch things better when I proof after. One day I will have the proof during mastered. 
Proof as I go, always have...
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Proof as you go DEFINITELY
I was trained to never pass over a word or something in question just to finish the report - you will invaribly miss or forget about it if you skip over it for a "final proof."
Have been an Editor for years and I am amazed at what even seasoned MTs will miss because they figured they would "fix" something when the report was finished. And, yes, your spell check or grammar check is never going to catch the difference between perineal and peroneal, etc.
Proof, of course.
Always have. Never proof again. sm
If I catch something other than spellcheck catches, I change. Otherwise, off it goes. Never, ever proof the entire report again.
No Proof
There is absolutely no proof. The Labor Board DENIED her request as I have been in contact with them. This is an ALLEGATION. The Labor Board does NOT handle Indendent Contractor situations. The paperwork sent in by Doris Latta in reference to Lynn Jester of Jester's Touch was FRAUD. It has been dismissed! If you wish to continue to let just anyone post items about MT Services without PROOF, that's fine with me. I care not! The litigation is between Jester's Touch attorney and Doris Latta at this point so I am not concerned because I am very fair and good to all ICs that have and do work with me. 
I proof as I go and sm
There was a time when I really did have to proof each and every word. Last time I had an audit, it was better than 99% which is quite good enough.
There is a way to learn to do this and I can't really tell you want it is I do or how I do it exactly. I have pretty high production (1500 to 1800 lines a day) and few mistakes. I think it is just finding a flow because I have my off days when I have a lot of difficulty.
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