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That's the word on the street - hijacked. We'll see. I like

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    it is attached to your version of Word. Open Word and it'll be on your tool bar. NM
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    Is it possible someone has hijacked your computer?..sm
    It can happen. Somehow they get into your computer and steal any info they can. I can't figure out how they are sending emails to you that seem to be from you. That is weird. Maybe you should call a computer service place and ask them what can be done.
    It was actually just the SpreadFirefox site that got hijacked. sm
    You can still safely load Firefox from Majorgeeks.com. I think it is a great, great browser and am so glad I don't have to be a slave to IE.
    I was hijacked like you once and spent all day trying to get (inside)
    rid of it, it hijacked everything and sent me to sites I had never been, could not get to Yahoo my home site. Finally I downloaded Hijack (that is what it is called). It is a free program and that did it. I had everything back to normal. I just followed their instructions and walla it was back to normal.
    Sorry, Hijack This, it is free and solved my problem when I was hijacked
    nm
    Ask on the word board, you'll get more
    response there.  Did you Google it?
    They'll do the work by posting every other word
    because medical transcription is so danged "easy" to do! We just type what we hear (who cares about the danged PATIENT?).
    Since I didn't get any answers, I'll re-word! sm
    I am looking for an LD company that will cover MTs usage. Also, really want to hear from people who have had their service for a considerable period of time without problems.
    Without having Word open to refer to, I'll see if I can help...sm
    When you click on autotext to open it, it should be where you can type in a new entry. Type in the entry you want to delete, and when it is highlighted I think an option should show to delete. I hope this is right, but like I said, I don't have Word open and I may have missed a step. Hope this gets you started in the right direction anyway.
    I'll try - my Word is old though, Word 97. SM

    Shoot. I didn't paste your note but I'll try to remember.


    I use Word 97. So my autocorrect for -year-old is yo and it types out -year-old, like I type 90yo and get 90-year-old.


    CTRL+E is what it says when I hover my mouse over the "center" icon. You know there are a lot of tips you get like that, just hovering your mouse.  


    As for bolded headings, I use ShortCuts for Windows, but I am almost 100% sure you can use AutoText and put a bold command in there.


    What street?
    RadGuy, what street is this Arby's on?  According to an old post of yours on MT Stars we live in the same city, and I would like to stay away from that Arby's. Sheesh, what will they think of to offshore next?
    There is one right down the street who gets out (sm)
    He is cute, but the post office just sent us all a letter to keep our dogs in.  I hope he didn't chase the mailman.
    Not street names, but how about....
    the STUPID names they give the different models of new homes... When we bought ours, they were things like El Capitan, El Sonoro..... etc.  We bought the smallest and cheapest model and my DH always said that we bought the EL CHEAPO!
    street names
    Used to work on Blue Rock STREET...lived with my folks on Blue Rock ROAD...which has about 3 blocks of what people think are Cheviot Road...goes back to Blue Rock Road....then 5 miles away, next street over is OLD Blue Rock Road Road....creates havoc for delivery people
    Street names
    We have Easy Street and Boardwalk in our subdivision.
    I was across the street from his house sm
    on a public sidewalk. I kind of think the officer is wrong, too, but I can still file a complaint. Luckily, I had a witness who saw the whole thing, too. I just might go ahead and do it. This hand is hurting where the leash twisted around it. I can move everything okay, it's just pretty bruised.
    Street signs
    We have a road named Creedmoor Road. You will see signs with it spelled that way, but also Creedmore and Creedmoore. Oy! Hey - I wanna spell it "Criedmore."



    Sesame Street! How appropriate.
    x
    I am one. Can I change my tune? Maybe I'm across the street.

    I won't even use words to describe you - there are none.


    My neighbor across the street did that...sold

    I was dying to ask her how much she got for her house but didn't want to be too nosy, so I didn't.  She was pregnant with twins and near the end of her pregnancy and not able to work full time anymore, and her husband had lost a good job and was working at a lower paying job to just try to get by, and the house only had 2 bedrooms and they already had a son and were having twin girls, and she didn't say but I think they were having trouble paying their mortgage.


    Anyway, although I don't know if they got a fair price for their house I know the whole transaction was very fast and easy.  She told me that THEY were allowed to set the date that the house changed hands; it was totally up to them.  The whole thing was done in a just a couple of weeks, because they wanted to move and get settled into a place (they rented a duplex) with more bedrooms before the twins were born.


    She told me that part of the reason they sold it like that was that the house needed some work done to it before they tried to sell it, and they just didn't have the time or the money to do it.


    But, I have to say the company that bought it didn't do anything either.  She told me they told her they were going to go in and do work to it and then rent or sell it.  Well they didn't do a thing that I saw - no one was ever there working on it.  They put a sign in the yard that it was for sale or rent and within a couple of weeks someone bought it.


    You're full of sh*t. You should see the house across the street...sm
    where they live. It's a total DUMP, and this is a pretty nice neighborhood. They've been arrested for selling meth supplies. They dump their garbage behind our house. They dump big pots of ??? (cooking oil, I think) down the storm drain in front of their house.

    We tried being nice at first, but with behavior like this, I'm done. These people are just rude.

    This is not "being prejudiced." This is having to deal with rude neighbors who are bringing OUR property values down with that weed-infested DUMP over there.

    I don't believe you're Indian, just posing as one to stir the pot.
    Sounds cute! It's a street in Transcription City, USA
    nm
    *Ebonics* refers to the street slang, etc. (often heard in -sm
    rap music, etc. Lots of white people, Hispanics, and even some Asians (all gangsta' wannabes) speak Ebonics as well. It's practically a second language in itself, so referring Ebonics-speakers to ESL isn't off the mark at all.
    Reminds me of transients on street...Will work for food!

    Working for 4 cpl and 2 cpl is the same as working for free.  To make a measly 40.00 a day, you'd have to type 1000 lines, not to mention that whopping 20.00 you'd make at 2 cpl rate with 1000 lines a day.  MT is not easy work regardless of if you have experience or are fresh out of school.  Heck, is there even a guarantee you would be given 1000 lines per day? 


    I can only imagine the portion of the total rate that is pocketed by SS.  I will guarantee it's a lot more than 4 cpl she is keeping for herself and charging to her clients. 


    My advice to anyone considering this internship:  Hit your books a bit harder, visit LWW.com, Stedmans.com, obtain reference books with samples, look on MT-related boards for folks offering to mentor, look for MTs needing help with their overflow work, and most of all, have a bit more respect for yourself and don't sell yourself short.


    By the way, a minimum wage job pays better, and a tank of gas still costs more.


    Sorry for the negativity, but ever since I saw that ad, I've wanted to puke over it.


    I'm really sick of the stupid suburbia street names recently too
    Trying to sound so woodsy and rustic. Meanwhile the houses all are different shades battle-ship gray and look like they've been stamped out with a cookie cutter. Really lame.
    Lady across the street says she wears a "J". I asked does that stand for "jugs?" lol
    :{
    Idaho case was botched in that a convicted sexual offender was out on the street to
    kidnap this little girl and her younger brother.  This is what the Arubans were protesting when people are saying they botched a case when this stuff happens in America. 
    My uneducated but street-wise father had a term for people like that--"Smart Dummy"
    nm
    It'll be the most expensive magazine subscription you'll ever get! No point in joining. nm
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    I'll go! I'll go!! I won't take hormones and will be ready to defend your honor :) n/m
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    No. It'll be the most expensive magazine subscription you'll ever get, and it's unnecessary
    s
    You'll get used to it. It is keeping the right leg propped up at the same time that'll be the
    When I broke my ankle, I was just grateful it wasn't the hands. Without our hands we'd be totally screwed.

    I broke my right ankle slipping on ice and was lucky to have gloves on because the palm of the glove was totally torn up and my hand was okay.

    Good luck and be sure to do your exercises when it is time.
    She could probably sell the purse on the street for cash, then use the cash for drugs. nm
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    It'll happen. You'll find your fit.
    You might have to kiss a few frogs first, though.
    Oh she'll spice it up alright, she'll be
    placing hidden cameras in the other ladies' dressing rooms! LOL!
    continue your goal; he'll/they'll get used to it/over it
    nm
    I'll vent and I'll sign my name sm
    I have two IC contracts right now. I recently went back to a job I had quit earlier in the year to work for the other company I am still working for.

    The newer job has 80% ESLs. I transcribe OP notes primarily and I can fill in other work types as the opportunity arises. I am frustrated with this particular situation. After 6 months, I am making less money and working longer hours. I am past the learning curve and I should be doing better, at least in the number of hours I am spending doing the job. We have run out of work for 24 hrs at a time at least 5 or 6 times since December 1, and in November it was more than that. I have a friend who worked for this company as well and she was having similar difficulties. The only thing that we can figure is that they are shorting us line count some way, because after 6 months at it, it should be easier/faster/more money, but it is less and less every single pay period. It is not a nice thing to accuse a company of doing, but it SEEMS that way to us. I am fed up with being expected to type every single OP note that comes in 24/7 and meeting the 6 hr TAT for them on weekends, evenings, holidays, wee hours of the morning...

    I took back a job I held for 2-1/2 yrs. The team leader has changed and this gal thinks that I should be on call 24/7 for whenever she has work. I might have some at 7 a.m., or perhaps not until 6 p.m. or later. I can't plan my personal life and between these two IC situations, I find that I am not eating on a daily basis, not showering on a daily basis and not sleeping more than 3 or 4 hours at a time. I have lost weight and I don't feel very well. I woke up today with a rip roaring head cold (my first in nearly 8 yrs) and it has already moved to bronchitis and I am expecting pneumonia by the weekend because I develop it very easily. I already have deep pain in my back.

    Yes, I should call in sick tomorrow, but I really can't take the fallout. The job I took back I am covering for another gal who wanted vacation over the holidays and if I have to call in sick, the team leader will call me and pitch a fit about how this is my responsibility. It IS my responsibility, I did say I would do it, and I will do it, despite being quite ill. In the past, when I worked for this company, they would not allow me to call in sick for a "cold" without a doctor's note. I worked through many illnesses with them and only called in sick when I developed West Nile Fever and while I was sick for over a month, I only called for my last 12 reports one day when I could no longer see the computer screen because my head hurt.

    The problem is that yes, many MTs lack work ethic. They don't take their responsibility seriously. This is not a work as you please career, not even for an IC. I can see the MTSO's point of view, I truly can. Like finding experienced, reliable and capable MTs, for the MTs who are these things, finding a company will treat you like a human being is equally difficult. I sit here, feeling lousy and like I am an utter slave labor with no consideration whatsoever. I know that my work needs to be done, but when I am this sick it is better that someone else do it for the sake of the work, for accuracy and for speed of getting it out. I know that I am needed, but to be the MT these companies need me to be, I also need to look after my own health.

    I will also mention that when I have asked for vacation, I have been approved for the time, but the MTSO queues up my work and calls me then I am not on the system getting it done. I have told them I had been approved for time off, but the MTSO didn't schedule anyone to cover for me and I am told to get on work, vacation or no, if I want to keep my job.

    Thus, I work 24/7/365 and have for years. I work sick, I work when I am in pain (I have an AI disorder), I work exhausted from staying up all night covering for others who are allowed to call in sick and have vacations when I can't have either. I work having no health insurance and not being able to afford the $125 a month to buy some with a high copay so I can see a doctor. I work without breaks for breakfast, lunch or dinner and I sometimes come close to having an accident because if I leave my desk to go to the little girls' room I get nasty calls about where I am at and what I am doing.

    Many MTs are mistreated, and I am one of them.
    Microsoft Word.. The oold Word used to do this and I'm new to 2003 Word..nm
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    Tell him you'll give him your macros if he'll give you his Lexus, his ski cabin, and (nm)
    ;p
    Control. I'll still get OT though. And you'll
    still sit and complain!


    I'll join you on that one, I'll be 58
    @@@@
    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
    nm
    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!


     


    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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