You don't need all those macros in Word. sm
Posted By: CheriL on 2009-04-03
In Reply to: macros - Happy MT Robin
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.
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Instant Text Macros vs Word Macros
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?
Are you trying to move your macros from Word on one computer to Word on another?
If so, try this....Go to microsoft.com and search for Word 2000 Supplemental Macros. When you get the article, it will tell you to download the small application. You will open the application in Word, and it will give you instructions on backing up the macros you already have. You will do this on the computer you want to move macros from. Once you have made a backup copy, email it to yourself. Go to the computer you want to put the macros on. You will need to download the Word Supplemental 200 Macro application on this computer also. Save the email you sent yourself on your desktop, and open the application in Word again just as before. You will select restore and pick the file on your desktop to restore to. The macro will do all of the work and transfer all of the macros into your new computer.
Now, if this is not want you wanted....... never mind.....
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.
setting up macros in word
I used to do this about 8-10 years ago, but forgot how to do this. Please post how to do this. This is for Word 2002.
Thanks
Word 2007 Macros
When you open your Word document, there should be an option in the toolbar above that says "Developer." Enter Alt F8 to view your macros, but I think you have to manually hit the Record Macro to enter new macros.
p.s. I prefer the previous Word version over this "new" one.
Auto correct in Word and a TON of macros....
I have a question on macros in MS Word 2003. Thanx!
I have turned off my macro function somehow in MSWord. I can't record or play macros. I get an error message ' compiled error - invalid outside procedure'. I have tried many things, I have changed my security to low, but still cannot run macros. I have gone online and have tried suggestions on 'visual basic editor', but still nothing. I need help, I do not use a word expander, I create and use macros and insta-text for myself. If anyone has any suggestions, please share!
Thanks so much!
-Jade
macros in radnet or word 2007
I have a new job typing in RadNet and it has macro system. does anyone know of a macro system that I can use with radnet (radiology) dictation. thanks. Rita
Does your Word version let you make Macros?
I have never been able to figure out how to do special format characters in ShortHand, but if your Word version allows you to make Macros, you can set up a Macro that will do the same thing as ShortHand. If your transcription platform does not accept Macros, you might still be able to “trick” it by then linking your ShortHand to your Word Macro. It works for me but every Word version and transcription platform is different, so you may have to play around a bit before you hit the right combination. If you need specific instructions to set up the Macro let me know. Good Luck.
word has both autotext and autocorrect plus macros
I really don' t see all that much need to buy a ShortHand program, especially when you are just starting out and probably put out a lot of money already. Just click on your toolbar, click on autocorrect, and you will get a menu that you can use to add in your new expansions.
if you would like to access this toolbar from your keyboard, you can create a macro that will do this.
Sub ATxtShow()
Dialogs(wdDialogToolsAutoCorrect).Show
End Sub
Paste this into your macro editor, and now record a "hot key" macro on whatever key(s) you would like to use. I use alt-5, but you can use any alt or control key combination you have free.
I certainly hope this macro posts properly, I tried 3 times to post a macro that to count characters, and each time a quote mark was removed by the system, but I hope this will post properly. I will follow up on this immediately after posting and make sure it is correct.
How to copy macros from WordPerfect to Word
Does anyone know how to do this? Would save so much time, as we have tons. Thanks for any ideas!
There are updated macros in all versions of Word
except 2007. The macro for 2000 is called macros9.dot and can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. The AutoCorrect Utility in 2002 & 2003 is in the support.dot template that is included with Word. You can go to this site to get the macro for 2007:
http://jay-freedman.info/
There are updated macros in all versions of Word
except 2007. The macro for 2000 is called macros9.dot and can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. The AutoCorrect Utility in 2002 & 2003 is in the support.dot template that is included with Word. You can go to this site to get the macro for 2007:
http://jay-freedman.info/
Or you can simply locate your .acl file and back that up. It's easy to find if you add an entry and then do a search for it by the date modified. Just make sure you are searching hidden files and folders.
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.
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 can easily do it without the macros. sm
Add an autocorrect. Now do a search for the .acl file by the date you made your change so you know you have the correct file. You need to make sure you are searching the hidden files and you probably need to change your search view to Details so you can see dates. You can right-click the file and send it to your CD (or however you want to transfer the file).
Do the same thing on the new computer so you can find the correct folder path and paste your file.
Sometimes the MS macros don't work because you probably have some entries that are multi-line with paragraphs.
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.
How to import Shorthand macros into ESP?
Can anyone tell me how to import my ShortHand macros into ESP? My company would not help me do it. I can't believe they wouldn't when they are the ones who tolld me Shorthand macros were compatible with ESP anyway.
If you charge for the macros, what makes you think
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Aren't macros copies of what others have said?
Aren't macros carbon copies of what someone else is dictating to you? You have it in your pc to make you're life easier, but it is not "your words" coming from your mouth. These words belong to the dictator... Am I missing something here? That is why at the end of the report, the dictators initials come first and they are in CAPS, and your initials come second and are in lower case. 
If he didn't tell her to make the macros
????? I think this is just someone trying to "get back at a doctor". I don't see the harm in giving them to him with a line rate charge. But maybe I just live by karma and not using "revenge" tactics. I believe if you are giving, then you will receive. I am not saying offer them for free. I think I would charge a line rate just for going through the trouble of printing them. I do believe that when a doctor dictates normals, they do belong to him and not the transcriptionist. The Transcriptionist transcribes them. He/she is not the "author". It happens every day when work is outsourced. The samples are handed right over to the outsourcing company with no charge. The hospital/physician does not charge the outsource company for handing over the samples. What if everytime we needed a sample to guide us, we were charged for that? It is the same argument here. The company I work for gladly hands over samples/templates to make my job easier, and they do not charge me for that. JMO. Maybe I'm just a realist. I say be a better person and give the man the macros with a line charge assessed if that makes it more fair. Is anyone seeing my point here? There is something underlying in the "don't give them your macros", and I just think it is more like a way to get revenge because of the hurt feelings in the way that he may not need the typist once these are given. I'm sure he's not looking for "the patient, follow-up, etc.". He probably wants "normal" paragraphs that he has dictated as part of a report. The typist is not the author of that, the doctor is. JMO.
Books on shortcuts and macros...
Know of any books on shortcuts and macros other than "saving keystrokes?" Thanks.:)
Saving autocorrect and macros
I know this has been asked before and I did neglect to write down the responses, but I am wanting to reformat my hard drive, but I want to save any autocorrect and macros I have already saved. how do I do this. I am not able to locate any normal.dot file, so please don't tell me that. I have Windows XP and office 2003. Any techies out there that can help??? Thanks in advance. KS 
copying macros to other comp
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