Thank you for replying to my VR macro question on mtstars. I was hoping someone like you with knowledge of Instant Text and VR work could help me out. Could you give me an example of how you would set up a macro to change a period to a comma and uncap the next letter in Instant Text for example? Do you think using macros and commands like this in Instant Text is more productive than creating them in Word?
MTSO for firing this lady>>
No, no, no, he was probably quite surprised and annoyed to be called by an a subcontractor he doesn't know from Jack, rather than the MTSO he hired to do his work. The MD is the one complaining to the MTSO when she doesn't meet TAT, and she CAN't meet it if the IC she hired doesn't send her work in on time. So what does she do? Offer the work to somebody who is more motivated than you. It's business.
You would be surprised how easily someone....sm
gets "lost in the shuffle." There are so many people applying for jobs and sending resumes. I found that the applicants who continued to check with me where much more apt to get positions. If I really didn't want someone because of their abilities, I would just tell them I had no openings, and they would stop contacting me. You don't want to bug them to the point of irritation, but you certainly should check.
I can easily see the difference.
I don't think you have a problem here.
Yes, I could easily become a recluse. Force myself to go out
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It could have easily cost you your life. nt
???? She didn't! We can easily see the difference.
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Enrichment is done easily in IT, although it can be done in Shorthand sm
This is where you take several days' worth of work for one doctor (if you have your dictionaries divided by doctors) and run the Enrichment option in IT. It looks thru the work and picks out the common phrases and words and automatically adds them to your dictionary. It's really cool! Shorts you didn't know were there suddenly pop up for you all the time. A lot of times it's things it never even clicked to me that the doc says it all the time.
If you want to do this in Shorthand, it's not automatic but can be done. You need to have another piece of software (or a website) and you enter your text in there. It picks out the common phrases and lists them out for you. Then you have to manually go to ShortHand and enter them. Takes quite a bit longer, but still worth it!
I would suggest y'all head over to productivitytalk.com and start absorbing all the knowledge for your particular expander. There is just a ton of knowledge over there, it will blow you away!
and you could have just as easily skipped my posting by that reasoning
Okay, Message Board Police. Next time I decide to express my opinion I'll run it past you for permission first, okay?
Amazing
Open, easily approachable, and true communication is key.
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But since you can switch so easily from one to the other, I just use my email on my main computer &
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Static IP address are not as easily attained as you would imply.
Also, most newcomers to the idea of FTP file transfer are not anywhere near the technical level of experience that you claim to have. My answers are being given to provide a SIMPLE solution for this person.
Static IP addresses are not free, either, so despite what you want to assert, your solution is not FREE.
If one is a nonproduction job, managerial,etc wool can be easily pulled
snap!
Google "soap note" and you can find it easily.
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Did you just say: You can very easily "add lines by inserting a word here and there"
I recall back in the mid 1990s, I was working with a fellow MT who was on midnight shift in medical records. He was making a huge sum of money and we all thought he was "the Whiz."
Come to find out, he was inserting phrases, embellishing dictated sentences I guess you'd call it, to get more lines per report. He got away with it for a number of years but was kissing up to the supervisor and director, always available to help out, nicest guy in the world - but a thief - who fooled us all.
Radiologist would surely notice eventually if not QA.
Macros
I am not a Medquist Transcriptionist but could you tell me to record a macro and then run the macro that you just made. I used to work at home and used Instant Text. I now work for a hospital and can't use that. They totally rely on Word capabilities. I do use the Auto Correct but I think if I could use a macro it might be better. However, it is hard to remember the various macros or abbreviations. I also have to contend that more than one person is using my computer. Linda
Macros
Can you use macros on your transcription platform?
WP Macros
At Productivitytalk.com there is a forum for WP for Windows macros. Hope this helps. 
Dr. wants macros?
Tell anyone who wants anything you have worked hard at to enhance your profession as a confidential handler of information that you cannot copy or lend any information from your computer as it violates your high standard of patient or doctor confidentiality. That should shut them up!
What are macros?
What are macros and why are they helpful in transcription?
Use of Macros
I use macros for whole paragraphs (i.e. physical exams that the doctors use all the time). I use auto correct in word to use as my Expander (i.e. bp for blood pressure). I've yet to try the other Expanders such as Shorthand, but maybe someday.
macros
by using auto correct.
RE: Macros
I don't use macros, I just use the Word Correct option, always have. But, now I use pcshorthand and I never have to keep making the shortcuts and stuff over and over again.
macros HELP!!!
I need serious help recording macros. If someone has macros for the following actions, I would greatly appreciate it if you could email them to me as an attachment. I need one for jumping that uses ?? and ctrl+J to get from ?? to ?? and one that starts automatic numbering in the 1) 2) format flush left. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
macros
Something similar happened to me not too long ago. What I found was that my Normal.dot file was corrupted. If that is the case, you need to rename the file to something that Windows will not recognize, such as *corruptfile* and then reboot your computer. Once it restarts, Windows will automatically rebuild another Normal.dot file that is not corrupt. Of course, you will lose any information you have already stored and you will have to start all over again building your macros. This is what happened to me and I ended up losing five years worth of stored macros. I still have not rebuilt everything that I lost with one corrupt file. Good luck.
Or how about macros
The template idea is a good one. If that doesn't work, something like a macro to do your report headings might work. One company I worked for wanted them to be in bold. It was a hospital account and I was doing consults, so a template wouldn't work as far as stock phrases, etc. I created macros for all of my headings and had all of my keyboard keys assigned with them. I had Ctrl M assigned to me IMPRESSION that was in bold and I was in the right spot to start typing the paragraph. I had all of my keyboard keys assigned to shortcuts that I had created - I overrode all of the standard shortcuts that Windows does.
The other poster is also correct in terms of phrases. Anything that is more than 3 letters that can be condensed down to 3 letters easily, you need to do. It does slow you down at first to do all of it, but it'll be worth it. Even things like "further evaluation" I have that condensed to "fe". You have to use a system that works for you and your brain. If I have two words I use the first letter of each word and if that letter combination is taken, then I use the first letter of each word and the succeeding letters from the second word, for instance "renal insufficiency" is "rin" since "ri" was already taken for respiratory insufficiency.
If you can change the position of words in your expander, i.e., change the order that words appear on the screen, that helps. I use Smartype and there were some words that Smartype didn't think were as important that I use a lot, so I was able to move them up in the "rankings" and have them appear on the screen sooner so I was able to get to them with fewer characters.
Good luck.
macros
I actually set up macros in Word. I have HPI for HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS and "hpil" for history of present illness, as sometimes I don't want it all caps.
I set up macros for all my headings, HPI, ROS, PE, etc., and assigned keyboard shortcuts to them. Ctrl + R was REVIEW OF SYSTEMS, Ctrl + P was PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, Ctrl + C was CURRENT MEDICATIONS, etc. I had to make a list as I used every single one of my keys for the different headings, but it saved a ton of time in the long run. You can set the macro up to have it bold and all caps and then either put your two spaces, or return to the next line wherever you need to start your typing.
I don't have that job any more, so I don't need those headings specifically, but I work on the Bayscribe platform that has some weird formatting things. To bold something you need <B>, so I set up a macro to do that and to give me the end bold code which is </B>. Saves me a ton of time so I don't have to look for the < or > keys.
Hope that helps.
Help-Building macros!!!
Can anyone tell me where to find a good resource for learning to build macros or Expander abbreviations.
I set up macros like that in Word
and assigned a shortcut combination to them. Such as Alt+H for history and physicals, etc. I don't know of any other way you could do it.
Macros - MSWord
When I do clinic notes I need to make a log, so have been copying the heading over to another document.
However, someone told me that in WP8 there is a macro that can do this automatically. If true, is there such a thing in Word?
If anyone keeps a separate log, can you tell me how you do it.
Thank you.
Doctor wants my macros!!!!!????
This is not the first time this has happened to me. However, I always have a hard time getting my pont across when asked. I once again have a doctor who would like to cut his rate, go to voice recognition, etc. However, he wants me to give him my macros! Am I to give him all my macros that I programed so that he can give them to someone else? I feel that whatever means or vehicle I use to give him the finished transcript is my proprietary information. I could really use some help in this fight though. Any thoughts or opinions would be greatly appreciated.
saving macros
You can save onto a disk by going to tools>templates and add-ins - click Add. Browse to find Program files/microsoft office/office 11/macros folder. C Click ok twice then pick tools>macro>macros. Choose support.doc from the bos. In the macros scroll box choose backup click run.
Most used? All 8000 of the macros
I currently have in my system. I could make a few thousand more honestly, but the system I use maxes out at 8000.
Macros also go by name expanders and
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Just starting macros...
Hey! Just starting to use macros here and have a few questions.
I have a few docs that say the same thing over and over, so I recorded macros using the following, and please let me know if this is what others do:
Control+D - neatly dressed and groomed
Control+T - thought processes linear
Control+J - judgment was intact
Just to name a few. I have been adding alt + things for others and so on...
How do you all remember what you recorded for what macro? Is this just you use it so much you just know? Also, how are macros helpful when your doc doesn't repeat themselves or says things slightly different each dictation? PLEASE UNDERSTAND I AM JUST STARTING AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM DOING. So, those of you that would like to write back, "what are you stoopid???", please refrain.
Thank you!!
WOW thanks. I've always set macros to do that. Duh!
Whole report macros
How many of you use whole report macros for specific dictators, and do you find that it is helpful?
I have tried it and it seems like it can be kind of a wash, because many times I had to delete, change, or move things around.
It seems a lot of experimenting needs to be done for me to figure out what does and doesn't help with my speed.
Any thoughts, experiences appreciated! 
I break my macros down. There may be
a part that is always, always the same and that will be one macro. The next sentence might be the same, except for right or left and I'll make that a separate macro.
I used to do lots of cataract surgeries and 99.9% of the time the only thing that changed was the eye having the surgery and the diopter of the lens so in that case I could do the entire report, one for left, one for right, and then insert a stop for the diopter so I could fill it in.
The doctor's didn't even dictate a complete report so you didn't have to read through the report anyway to make sure they weren't changing something. They would just dictate right, right, right, xx diopters.
Large Macros
Can anyone tell me how to monitor whether making a whole report macro is worthwhile? I have quite a few, but I cannot decide if it is worth it or not. I end up having to make changes and delete things. Often seems like kind of a toss up and wonder if anyone has any guidelines for this or has experiemented with any specific result.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
large macros
Huge macros have never seemed to help me, but on one account, there's a cardiologist who puts two huge jawbreakers into his mouth and then dictates at top speed. I managed to take his long ROS and his short ROS and his short PE and long PE and make four very useful macros, but I put @@ in at the variables. Works great for me. Turns out the guy says the same thing over and over, but it just sounds different if he's speaking Martian that day, or Yugoslavian, or pig latin. Good luck.
You don't need all those macros in Word. sm
I think for a lot of people that's a holdover from WordPerfect 5.1. Autotext or Autocorrect will do the same thing with formatting and you don't need to remember all those oddball keyboard shortcuts for macros. You would use an abbreviation that made sense to what you want to expand. You could use a macro to go back and apply formatting if your AT or AC didn't already do that for you.
Some are forced to work with those features in Word because of platforms, but I prefer a true text Expander that will work in more than just Word.
macros for "kaizen" of MT sm
i record multiple macros for "setting up" my docs--view and start point. i use different macro versions for different accounts; one account may need 150% and uses jump codes, while another needs 200% and needs a centered title, etc. i work in a platform that does NOT support keyboard shortcuts well, but when i build the macros in Word and then run them in the platform they create "kaizen" and improve my LPH/$$$ by keeping my hands on the keyboard. (also less risk of repetitive use injury from reaching for the mouse)...try that?
EditScript macros?
I just started working with EditScript for a company a month ago. I am new to editing and am very slow right now. I am encouraged by these postings that my speed will increase. I end up retyping large portions of the reports and don't see how I can ever make substantial $$. I have been an MT for years and years (1979) and have used just about every type of equipment and done just about every type of report. I know VR is the wave of the future, but I am worried I will never get the editing down. Some of the shortcuts seem to be more cumbersome than just using my arrow key, but when I check my line count at the end of my shift, there are all kinds of notes about how I did. I use autocorrect but don't know about macros. I used macros years and years ago in WordPerfect but don't know how to do them now. Can someone please give me some encouragement and tips on how you increased your speed? Escription has tips on-line but I was wondering if there are any training classes for EditScript - I am willing to try anything.
In Search VR Macros
What macros do you use for VR that saves you a lot of time. You know the ones for turning a period into a comma and deleting a space. That kind of thing. Which ones do you use?
naming macros
My biggest problem seems to be how to name the macro. Can you give examples of how you name them? I have Instant Text.
I agree. Use your macros and expanders for
that you always make mistakes in. I'm the same way with "hte" so I put it in my Expander to change for me every time. There is NO excuse if she's proofreading her work why she can't catch these mistakes. So, blame the doctor, get strict with her and if she doesn't like it, there's the door. Sorry but you deserve more than you're getting right now.
MACROS/EASY TEXT
HELP!!! Can anybody tell me how to create macros or easy text in Word 2003? I need to create macros that will allow me to just fill in the blanks......any help appreciated.
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