Thank you! When I started working in WORD ...sm
Posted By: kathy Stryk on 2005-08-14
In Reply to: Here's an easy way - in Word sm - Anon
2 years ago I asked the same question and got no answer. My glasses need to be changed every 6 months since using WORD (OK...I'm over 55). thanks for the great advice!
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I started working at 15-1/2...
that's how old you had to be to get a worker's permit where I live. I got my license when I turned 16 and my parents gave me a car...mind you it was a very old car...a hand-me-down. But I was happy to have my own car! If I wanted to go places and do things, I had to provide my own gas money and they also made me pay the car insurance (they put me on my own policy). I think it taught me responsibility. No work, no go!
I just started working for them and am very happy so far. nm
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I started out working for a company ...sm
that gave you everyone who worked there's IM and then the company who bought them out isn't that way. They don't encourage contacting other MTs working there. Which has not stopped me. I still have managed to get email addresses and then get their IM. It does help tremendously when you are able to talk to others on the same account as you.
Congrats! But you haven't started working for the
"new" company yet...try not to burn bridges, cause chances are very good that MQ will look like Heaven after all...Been there - done that so many times!
New to all of this and just started working for MDI-FI a month ago. I know I should have asked but..
Does anyone know if MDI-FL pays for holidays or how that works. Do you have to be there 90 days before anything kicks in, if it does at all?? Thanks
I have just recently started working as an editor and I am appalled at what I have seen.
I would be soo embarresed to turn some of this work in. Blanks, fine, I don't mind filling in blanks at all, BUT missed words, wrong words, bad grammar, punctuation errors, etc. etc. etc. that's just plain silly. It is silly to fill in blanks that are clearly heard w/o problem. I get paid by the line as well. Not all QA is paid hourly/salary.
I'm 33, went to AIBT in 1993, started working in Valley
Stayed there for four months, then got layed off because all the dictated reports were going over to this new fabulous thing called "phone line dictation." Got a job at a local secretary office, there for one year. Then went home for MQ for a few years, had some trouble with management, so ended up at the horrid, retched, awful excuse of a company Edix for two years, now back safe, happy and content at MQ. So I started age 23.
Just started working as an IC for a company, found out something I had been transcribing for
years was wrong. When I questioned it, they explained it to me, but for 20+ yearse no one else had seemed to care. You learn something every day in this business.
so all these companies are really Synthescribe? Glad I did not get started working for them! nm
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Getting started as MT and looking up every other word?
You are kidding, right? I am so surprised. It takes quite a while, like 1 said above, to realize any $$$ from this. I had to stay in English as well as terminology books when I first started but I was being paid as I went along, just a basic salary and still over a year for training. I think you have wishful thinking. Have you read of any of these posts and what MTs are running up against in making a living nowdays- not only that but we are talking about trained professionals, not a newbie starting out. I think your rose colored glasses need a cleaning....With all the previous work I had done in hospitals, doctor offices, medical secretary, I was still not prepared for transcription. I, in my training year, used to go home each night almost in tears, the work was so hard, not what I expected. You are thinking about investing a lot of money, because it will cost a lot if the only thing you have is a desk, in a job which apparently you have no background on. Not a wise choice. If interested, why didn’t you start with a terminology course first? Your surgery experience (20 years ago) and the medical secretary do nothing really to prepare you for transcription.
I have 13 years experience and just started a hospital job working from home making $16 an hour
and with a really good incentive plan. I live in the Kansas City area. $10 seems like a low starting point even with only two years experience which is the usual benchmark for hospital MT jobs.
It's been my experience that the low end of the pay scale for hospital employed MTs was around $12 an hour. Also, it's been my experience that the pay offered is usually based on years of experience and how well you perform on the transcription test.
I would say if their pay is that low, they should at least be making it up with incentive and it doesn't sound like they are.
JMO
My Word 2000 started doing this, and I
problem plus I had header problems. The header was staying huge even after changing my normal.dot. I tried MS help to no avail. The header problem occurred after opening an attachment from an e-mail from the company I work for with a header that was like 3 inches to accomodate a letterhead. This wound up changing every single Word document to a new header. I finally just trashed the whole shebang and started with another tower and am running XP with Office 2003. Good luck, but I still don't know what happened!
working in Word..need to know..sm
Is there a way to bold without using the mouse to click on bold every time? (function keys?) Thanks
If you are working in Word...
Hello
I am not sure if you are the one who posted this on the equipment board or not, but I will repeat my reply to a similar question on that board......I use the AutoCorrect feature in Microsoft Word. You have to build your own entries, but once you have done that, it is great. I have a doctor who says a lot of the same phrases over and over. For instance, he says, "Thought processes are goal directed." I type in "tp" and it types out that entire sentence. If you use Word as your word processor, than this feature is free! The other way I use it, is for expanding words, such as depression...depn... I use the first 3 letters of the word and the last letter. This usually works pretty well. One more... preoccupied..'pred.' If you have any further questions, please let me know. I spent over $100 on an expander, and I like AutoCorrect better.
Lynn 
If you are working in Word,
the menu across the top starts with File, then Edit, then View . . . this is all without clicking on anything.
If working in MS Word, go to (sm)
Tools and scroll down to Auto Correct. If the first option given has a check mark next to it, uncheck it. This should correct it. If not, please get back to me for an alternate method. Good Luck.
You are working for less than $0.01 per word!
Even at $0.01 per word, that's low for medical transcription!
To make a comparison with line rate, open a couple of your documents up, check the character count with spaces and the word count. Do the math for both, using a low number like $0.08/line. I think you'll see that you are not being paid well and hope you will either ask for that raise or find a better paying job. With 5 years experience, you should be making at least $0.08/line.
if you are working in Word you can....
click format on the toolbar, then click chane case which will give you options. First highlight all text you want changed.
If you are working in Word, sm
try to adjust your Grammar check, so it will pick up on those little mistakes you are making.
I have mine set, so I don't miss anything, including commas, sentence structure, etc.
If you are not working in Word, than just try to adjust your ear and slow down just a tad. If you proof while transcribing, you will probably catch the small things.
Good luck to you, keep your chin up, and smile!!
Will soon be working in Word for the first time sm
and I was going to use Shortcut, but do I need to? Would the auto-correct feature of Word work just the same, or is there an advantage to using Shortcut? I am an old PRD+ user, and am now using Bayscribe, which uses an Expander similar to PRD, so now am having to evaluate options.
Thanks for your input.
I think it's for Meditech it's working for me in Word.
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Well, if you're working in Word
you can use that Word Count and do the math yourself, or there is Abacus. I don't know of any free line counting programs. I work in Word and just use the tools in word to count lines. You highlight the document and count it that way through the tools menu.
Was told working directly in MS Word...sm
when I asked what the platform was, that's what she said.
Now I see why I have to have unlimited long distance, and a second phone line!
I assume you're working in Word?
Did you record the Find & Replace macro? You'd get more help if you posted your macro code so we can see where the glitch might be.
It depends on your version of Word. Which one are you working in
and which version of Windows? Later versions no longer include the WP5.1 filter but you can use the old one if you still have old installation CDs. You can also download the filter from the link below.
I used Stedman's when working in Meditech, but I would type in Word and
copy to Meditech.
What is the version of word for windows that works best for you? Still working off 2000.
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If you're working in Word, if your Standard & Formatting toolbars
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If working in Word, autotext/correct can be used for free, but (smsg)
if you need a separate expander, then I recommend Shorthand. I think their cost is reasonable, and it is user friendly. I've used it for years, and it has worked in numerous different platforms, or if not directly compatible, I could convert my list either way fairly easily. It, too, has a free demo period for 30 days. Aside from Word's own autotext/correct function which is limited in its compatibility to a degree, you aren't going to find a good free one.
Working in Word, and suddenly my screen splits into two pages, and I can't reverse it. HELP!
Does anyone know what I've done and what I can do to get it back to just one window? It is Word 2003 on a XP platform, if that helps any. Thanks.
You get more working the evening or night shifts and working w/o benefits. And producing like a mad
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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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Ditto....granted I am not working much these days, but am currently trying out a new way of working
when I do work which seems to be helping. I am timing myself and keeping a log of how long it takes to to type however many minutes. I am averaging anywhere from 13-18 minutes of dictation an hour now doing this. Granted the time fluctuates between who I am typing, and if I have to look up names, addresses, etc., just depends on the division I am doing at the time. But work that used to take me 3 hours to do is now taking me under 2 hours, I am also trying to put in more macros as I go along, which slows me down initially but pays off in the long run of course. I was working "all the time" before but took forever to get done since I was not applying myself. This new "attitude" has helped me a lot. My goal, in the Fall, is to do 90 minutes a day consistently at 6 hours, and then maybe get up to 120 minutes a day at 8 hours, still while having at least half of the day free (do 60 minutes at night, and the other 60 by Noon). Thereby doing 1200-1400 lines a day. I have never really buckled down and done more than 8000 lines per pay period, so it will be a nice change. Maybe you can do something like that and have a specific knock off time as was suggested below. 
Working holidays? Out shopping in stores where someone IS working
that holiday you refuse to work? Grocery stores, food joints & seems any store is open on holidays and you expect them to be fully staffed, so why shouldn't we?
Yes, I took off for the first time on Christmas day, in 18 years and it was great, but I worked Christmas eve and this whole past weekend.
Someone has to do it!
working IN A HOSPITAL is different than working at home.
Someone can steal you identity from the internet if they want to. Why would you go to the time and trouble to jeopardize a job that requires some level of skill to steal someone's identity or medical records? You could get a job as a retail clerk and get info easier than going through the testing required to become an MT.
Somehow working at home translates into not really working
My in-laws are the worst. Whenever they plan something last minute and my husband says that I had to work, they say, "but she works at home!". When I one time mentioned I had a "schedule" and basically punch a clock and work full time, I don't think they believed me. They will sometimes call mid-day during the week if they are in the area to see if I want to go for lunch, etc! The best is, my husband doesn't make all that much money, so where is it coming from, the money fairy? I am ready to strangle someone! So I know how you feel and I'm sorry it upset you. You are not alone.
If you picked the correct Word version at installation, if you pull up a blank Word page & do an inc
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Sorry, but your schedule doesn't justify making up your own rules. Use the word board for word q
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I simply used the word as the point of reference. If I had referred to someone AS 'that word'
your read my post that said we are all just people no matter what color we are?
Info/help on open Word 2007 docx with Word 2003.
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.
Is any one running ExText with Word 2000 and EditScript with Word 2003 sm
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!
it is attached to your version of Word. Open Word and it'll be on your tool bar. NM
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I type the letter "l" in IT and the word cholelithiasis is my word selected?Why?
I want to get rid of this. Entered left again but it is still giving me cholelithiasis as the only word option to select from.
This is why I find this program crazy. Everytime I sit down for the day, there is a whole new experience with it!!! I have to stop and think before each word!!!
How do you make fields in Word Perfect like in Word? I'm drowning out here
in new keyboard commands, macros, etc. Thanks.
In the future, please post word questions on the Word board.
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Can you use the Word autocorrects or only Smartype? What about the Word auto text? tia nm
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Word AutoText, AutoCorrect, and Spellchecker, and other Word features
I have just started working for a company that uses Word (my previous experience was HTML-based and had its own autotext and spellchecker).
I have never bought medical spellcheckers nor Instant Text, especially that I have learned a lot from posters here that one could use the autocorrect feature for long words/phrases/paragraphs/templates. I have heard of people saying autocorrect was not meant to be used for such.
I have been browsing some features of shortcuts in Word (using the Assistant), and have discovered that it has AutoText. I tried it by highlighting a whole document (canned procedured), then hit Alt+F3, assigned a code, and voila! I have a template that readily inserts into an open Word document by typing the code and hitting Enter.
Also, I have learned that I can insert empty fields (for variables in my templates like BP/HR/RR/Temp values by hitting Ctrl+F9, then when I have inserted the autotext for a template with such empty fields, I can readily jump from one field to the next (to fill them up with values) by hitting F11 (or Shift+F11 to go to previous empty field).
We do know that many dictators want us to type verbatim even for running sentences, so that I have found the Spelling and Grammar checker feature of Word quite cumbersome. I discovered tonight that I could use just the spellchecker feature by clicking on Tools > Customize, then under Categories, select Tools; under Commands, select Spelling. I dragged that onto my tool bars so I can do a quick spellcheck. Cool thing was, the previous documents I have made with new drug names, etc., which I have spellchecked using a non-Word program, were automatically included in its database (so I do not have to re-enter them as I begin to utilize this feature). Drawback: I could not make a shortcut key for this (have to use the mouse again!)
Then I made my OWN keyboard shortcut for autocorrect by going to Tools>Customize>Keyboard (click on button then another window appears), Under Categories, choose Tools; under Commands, choose AutoCorrect. Under Press new shortcut key, assign the shortcut you want (F key, Alt or Ctrl + desired key), then click on Assign button.
Well, that is all I can share for now. I have learned a lot from posters here, and I hope I have added some info, especially for Word users like me who can be categorized as average.javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',' ');
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Qa sent me 2 corrected report. One had hypenated word changed and other had same word
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why on 1 computer for the same report would the word count be different in Word? (inside)
Like on 1 computer with word the document was 27000 character counts w/spaces
and the other computer (the one i type this account on says 13,000. How can there be such a difference with Word being the same? I am baffled.
I daydream about NOT working while I'm working.
There are so many other things I need and want to get done. I've been working way too hard lately, and summer is just slipping by again. Well, I'm outty.
Please post word questions on the Word board.
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