If I can remember, I like to use the "autocorrection" feature in Word that adds it to AC SM

automatically. No writing anything down. I don't take my  hands from the keyboard if I can help it. Sometimes I *do* have to go back and un-correct it so I can add it.

I do my work all crazy. Comes from so many years of not having spell check or anything.

• dumb question. sm - Aunt Bea
  • depends how often you're correcting - yourself
  • I correct it on the spot... - Kate
  • It's like a tic with me. I can't help it. I correct it then. That is BAD for productivity. nm - Becky
  • I go back and correct it but I also write - Just me
    • If I can remember, I like to use the "autocorrection" feature in Word that adds it to AC SM - Becky
  • Errors - old time MT
    • that is pretty much how I feel, just wondered if I was wasting time. nm - Aunt Bea
      • I agree with old time MT -- best to fix it when you see it and not rely totally on spellcheck. sm - LTMT
  • It's a good idea to run a spell check - on every report. I'd wait til I was finished.
    • oh yes, I always spellcheck anyway, even if I have already corrected something. nm - Aunt Bea

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Hello,

I am proofreading reports as MS Word files. I want to send a version showing the corrections (in red, as MS Word does when you turn on this feature), but then I want to send the final 'clean' version, with the corrections but without showing all the changes in red, to the client. It doesn't seem that this is possible. Whenever I turn the show edit feature on, I cannot then remove the red marks later.

Thanks for help,

Dave

There is a compatibility feature with Vista, or so they claim.  It's all in this Q&A piece in the Times here.  I think you might have to register for the Times to read this link but it's got some good info

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/technology/22askk.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Diane

Found this awesome search engine tailor-made for MTs. Works fantastically well. Link is below.

I'm not sure if it puts it in Word or what it does.  I've never needed it. 

I think a program that would pull header information from Word and add it to a log file might be needed by quite a few MTs.  I don't know if that's feasible since everyone's needs would be different.  A lot of MTs like to keep logs though, myself included.

If I think of anything else I'll be back.

your read my post that said we are all just people no matter what color we are?

I have a friend who sent me a document with .docx extension, presumably Word 2007. I can open it in Word 2003; however, all I see are musical notes and highlighting, no text (this is a document with words and highlighting only, no pictures, music notes, etc.). I tried to open this with Notepad and only see the usual gibberish.

I know I opened another 2007 Word doc before and I remember seeing the converter load at that time but that was probably a year ago. Is there something that has changed that I'm not aware of?

Darn Microsoft.

I am interested to know if anyone is running two platforms with a different version of Word on one computer.

I am running eScription's ES with Word 2003 and want to run ExText but their version of Word is 2000.  Has anyone done this or doing it now.  If so, have you run into any problems. 

I can't seem to get a straightforward answer from the Techs at either company.    I can't just load ExText and jeopardize it interfering with eScription. 

I am interested to hear any and all comments.  Thank you so much in advance for any help!