Please use Word and Technical boards appropriately. (NM)
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Please use word, drug and style boards appropriately. (NM)
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MS word technical help
I type on ExText using MS word 97, and starting yesterday the spellchecker keeps picking up the words "as" and "is" as misspelled words. I even checked MS Word outside of the ExText forum, and it still picks out these 2 words. I keep hitting "add" to add the words so they will not keep coming up, but every time I start a new document, back it comes. Anyone with any ideas on how to permanently add these to my spellchecker so I don't have to keep dealing with this? thanks!
Need help again with this silly MS word. Thanks. Over on Technical board.
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Must be a highly technical medical word as
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Transcribing/Word Count for Scientific/Technical
Hello. I just started transcribing for an interpreter who does work for various medical institutions and mainly for foreign pharmaceutical product descriptions. The work is very tedious and time consuming and pay is $15 per 1,000 words. The work involves a lot of inserting of symbols, outlining, turning off and on bolding, italics, underlining, and doing a lot of indents and tabbing. He said my work was flawless but I feel like I'm making $2 an hour. Any ideas or thoughts on this rate of pay? Being new it's taking me quite a while to do all the extra formatting, etc., and it’s not just straight transcribing. He also mentioned that he does translation and dictation for medical journals and just bought a Dragon program. I’m assuming he’s doing the easier work on his Dragon program but I’m not that familiar with it. Any additional HELP would be great!!
Word and Drugs boards (SM)
Please use the appropriate boards for these questions. This forum has been set up so that these questions can be more easily navigated.
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Go to the Word boards and read
all of the notes and replies that deal with acute care. If there is something you do not understand, research it and study up on it as much as possible. It is basically a way to learn new terminology. No one can teach you acute care. If you want to learn it, all you have to do it study. The Internet and reference books will be your teachers. The ball is in your court. All you have to do it take the time to learn it. When you graduate from MT school, you only learn the basics. The rest you must teach yourself. I hope this helps.
Search myself?? Thought that was what word boards are for!
WRONG! lol
Imagine that! Searching Google or where ever and taking a moment longer to click into a link or 2 and do a bit of research to make certain the site is reputable and the information correct.
What an original concept.
I've always felt that blurting out an answer (whether right or wrong, but hopefully right) without offering up some search tips only hurts the questioning MT in the long run.
Not long ago, this here word board was offline for some time. Where did folks find the answers then?
On top of everything else we need to know as MTs, we also need to be self-reliant and have excellent research skills. You don't get that way from being given the answer on a word board. It comes from reading, reasearching and attempting to understand what you are transcribing.
Don't get me wrong, we all need help on occasion, but for the most part, I know I can do my job, and those that give the answers can do their jobs, but the ones always asking the questions...can they make it in this field without word board help?
My vote is for teaching them how to research on their own.
That's my 2 cents on this issue.
I had that exact word in mind this morning reading the boards
Sisters. 
It seems worse than usual with the flaming around here. Is it the heat or what?
Thanks my forehead has been appropriately smacked
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MTSO needs to staff appropriately, not IC take care of staffing issues.
 Why should the IC give up her staffing solutions to the MTSO? The IC only makes may be 9 cpl if she's lucky, and the MTSO probably makes 13-15 cpl. I think my friends would rather make the 13-15 cpl to keep the account happy, than make only 9 cpl and make the MTSO happy. The MTSO is wrong to take an account they can't staff properly, and then in turn blame the typist for TAT, etc. It is just not fair! Lowering the boom on the typist is my big concern, not so much "client stealing". "Client stealing" has been around longer than we think it has. The MTSO had to begin the "stealing" process from the get go, and then in turn cannot staff. It all boils down to staffing. I say, hire per diem employees. Most transcriptionists are able to pick up a little extra now and again to accomodate the MTSO in a "tough spot", but this work should be paid a little extra as an incentive. Tit for tat, though, in all fairness!
I am sorry. I meant boards not broads. Now those darn boards have disappeared again.
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but boards will be dano's boards and that's the issue. no one dare disagree with dano.
yes the boards will be boring with just one-sided opinions but we need to please dano. isn't that the purpose of MT Stars?
I need some help on the technical
Technical help please......
I work in Word 2003 and am needing to make headers in some of my reports with the following information (page #, patient name, date and report type). My problem is that the page number stays the same (#2) for all pages and when I go into change it all pages change. I know there is something with "sections" and all that, but I'm just not getting it to work. How can I make a header with the numbers to change from page 2 to page 3 and so on? Thanks for the help guys!
Technical help
I'm really lousy in the technical department and I just got a message on my computer that my local C disc space is almost full. I'm thinking I need to empty my recycle bin, but not sure. It is quite full, as I type the reports in Word and send through Outlook Express. Is that what this means? Any help is greatly appreciated.
No, no technical available. Need to have something set up by sm
late fall. Thanks for the help.
In the technical world
the quality of the parts that comprise one computer is no longer a deciding factor, because they are all designed and manufactured by only a few companies that are world class manufacturers. It's the service that counts. If you get good service (including after sales service) then go for that company. Check, too, the available hardware that are offered in both companies that you are considering. If the local co. has everything that Dell or Gateway has to offer and also give you good service, then go for the local.
I bought mine from Best Buy and gets good service from the pc manufacturer.
Need pop up help on technical board -- thanks!
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Need help on technical board
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I have a question on the technical help
board please ASAP. TIA
Can you help on Technical board? nm
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I have a technical question
I'm thinking about getting a new computer, and I think I recall seeing that a lot of companies' platforms aren't compatible with Windows Vista. Is this true, and if so, what do you do in that case. Cause it's not like you can buy a new computer with an old Windows system on. What do you do in this case?
that would be technical - normally I can spell!
technical question
Try core FTP lite. I have used it and it is pretty easy once you get it configured. Just drag and drop files from the left side of the screen tothe right
You are welcome. It is my best resource for any support or technical help.
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Is there anything on the Productivity or Technical board?
I have a technical question. On my toolbar when
I click on any of the categories (File, Edit, View, Tools or Help), instead of getting my dropdown menu I get a trasparent square. If I drage my mouse down, then the titles appear but you can see the screen under them. The same thing happens on Outlook Express. (I have Windows XP). The only one that shows the regular dropdown menus is Favorites. This just started today. Has anyone had a similar thing happen or know what to do about it? Thanks.
Got a technical question, not MT related
I have a priceless message, left by my son, on my digital phone/answering machine, and am wondering if anyone here would know how I can transfer it to the computer so I can share it (and delete it from the phone).
TIA for ideas/solutions!
Long ops are the best! I love the technical
stuff! My favorite is cardiac surgery. Consults are good, too. I really don't care for discharge summaries or H&Ps, short or long. But always glad to just to have any work these days! 
What are the technical specs on your notebook (sm)
Would like more info on the specifics such as the brand, RAM, processor speed.
Wow to Technical Support! Thanks soooo much! ....
for your extensive answer!
I'll start with cleaning up my mouse and working up from there if this does not work.
I'll let you know.
There are still very kind, knowledgable, helpful and generous people in this world, THANKS !
Technical help, please- buffer overload?
Going along today and computer decided to show me a buffer overload, not able to do anything at all, said something overloaded. Anyone know what this means and how to get rid of it? I used to have Dell, oh how I miss and was told you could not have a computer made by Dell because of Vista and cannot use Vista on my platform. I need assistance, anyone??
Question on Technical board for those who are available to answer!
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Need help on technical board - doing search on MSWord. tks.
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Please help on Technical board re foot pedal. NM
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I fired my ISP today because of non-US technical support....
To give a brief summary, I developed technical problems after my ISP decided to do some upgrades 2 weeks ago. The problems resulted in my getting kicked off line every few minutes. Upon contacting technical support I found myself consistently running into people that had no English comprehension skills and their responses had nothing to do with my problem or how to fix it. I found another ISP that would provide the services I needed and signed up with them 3 days ago, then called my main one today and told them they were fired because of their non-US based labor who couldn't help anyone. The lady I spoke with apologized and said this was an experiment they were doing with outsourcing technical support, but I told her that their experiment cost them a customer who had been with them for almost 4 years.
I've fired off e-mails to everyone in management that I could get ahold of telling them exactly why they were fired, and sharing the idiotic responses I received on my technical assistance requests.
I agree - charge for your technical expertise
I worked a hospital account for an MTSO that liked my work so well that they asked the MTSO to use my templates and daily logs for all of the work types asked the MTSO to give them to all the other MTs on the account, present and future. I did not know they had pirated my logs and templates until after I received a promotion to work in the office. I was livid! It took years to perfect those templates and logs. They were created based on my knowledge of what Joint Commission liked in audits. They did NOT get the macros or instructions on how to move around the documents (lots of hidden codes in those logs/templates).
I had negotiated a relocation fee of a few thousand dollars to move to their area to work in the office. I didn't feel badly about not paying it back when I left 6 months later after discovering lots of things like that once I started working in house.
You did the work. If he wants them and if you want him to have them, decide on a fair price, then add 15% :)
"Skedaddle." A highly technical term.
" ... but when she feels the urge, she really needs to skedaddle."
I haven't heard that word in YEARS--and that's probably the first time in 37 years I've gotten it in medical dictation!
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I am not too smart with computer technical stuff, but you can use Vonage
with C-phone? I often thought about going that route but wasn't sure how it all worked with having to be on the computer and having to dial in to system to transcribe.
Put technical questions (even computers) on Tech board. (NM)
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Re above message - just posted on technical board. Need help badly.
Thanks.
Use Technical board for equipment/software questions, please. (NM)
Goldbird
This thread belongs on Technical board; locked.
Goldbird
Technical Question regarding sending and recieving work
So many companies have different ways of sending and receiving work that I am a little confused.
I work for a local hospital. We used to send and recieve work via a DVT transcribe station and phone line downloading work from the Lanier system. Now we use Lanier VXP interface and player.
My question: Is the DVT transcribe station the same thing as a Lanier for Voice that some services state you need? Or is it completely different?
I had to pay mucho $$ for this station and don't want to see it gathering dust.
Does anyone know what the most popular program companies use for sending and receiving work? I notice ExText is mentioned quite often, but I seem to have conflicts all the time with that program shutting down on me for no reason when I'm in the middle of a document. I, nor tech support, have been able to figure out why.
I'm thinking of changing jobs as I am totally bored/sick of doing the same dictators over and over again. I need something to perk me up. I'm also sick of ESL dictators, of which I seem to get more than my share during each day. Since I would rather give quality instead of quantity, I'm finding it harder and harder to get my line production every day.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
Very technical, lots of specialized equipment, and TONS of ESLs.
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They're all really the same, from the simple foot pedal to the more technical stuff.
Doesn't bode well to me, and I'd not waste my time or my computer!
Dictaphone EX Text users.. I have a question I need help with on the Technical Board. Thanks..
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How common are server issues and other technical problems that result in downtime? (sm)
Do you get compensated for your downtime? I'm thinking of going to work for a national, but I've heard there are a lot of technical issues at these bigger companies. True?
I was told today that all the big computer companies offshore their technical service. Does anyone
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Microsoft Word.. The oold Word used to do this and I'm new to 2003 Word..nm
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