it can be normal, but what is normal?

• Is this really normal? - Burnt-out MT
  • I have the same problems (only have dial-up too) - sm - Laura E.
  • Burn out - Angie
    • Thank you all - Burnt-out MT
    • What companies pay hourly? nm - Curious2
  • This is becoming the normal, unfortunately. To get assigned docs & accts. makes for good line - counts. Bouncing around stinks! nm
  • it can be normal, but what is normal? - sm

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There is no *normal* in this life..........

There ARE conformists and nonconformists but normal doesn't exist. Sorry. 

You must have a preconceived idea of what *sanity* is, eh?  *lol*

"In order to remember something new, I have to forget something old."

Truth is, you may be able to remember the pair of ice skates you got for Christmas when you were six, but you don't remember to buy milk for 2 days in a row.

My mom always said that her "brain was full of useless information." 

I am just wondering what is the average TAT for some of you that are independent contractors.  I have an account that has a very short TAT and it is clinic work.  I have an average TAT of like 6-7 hours.  If it is not turned in at that exact time, I get an email saying that the work needs to be sent over.  Is that normal?  Also I haven't gotten a raise in three years.  I get about 6.5 cents per gross line (no matter now much or little is on the line). I have been with this company for five years.  I just need some advise here.  I am told by my husband constantly that I need to just completely move on, but I like the work because it is easy. 

The company I am with is pushing hard for MTs to go from clinic and ER notes to acute care.  After 4 years, I feel like I am ready for this but this company offers extremely little in the way of samples, maybe 2 or 3 on some of the toughest authors; no way to review reports that have been sent for editing, and no way to communicate with others working in your accounts.

I have the basic format of the work down but the authors can be very tough to learn with no feeback.  There also does not seem to be any kind of raise involved, so if I can do 250 LPH doing clinic notes why struggle through that with a company that does not seem real inclined to help?  For those who do acute care, do you prefer it or do you do it for more money?

Surely someone else has encountered this problem.  Well, we got a brand spankin' new Dell XPS 420 to our door yesterday!  It is wonderful... I just have a slight problem.  Had Word 2007 loaded onto it and now trying to figure out how to convert my normal.dot from Word 2003 to this.  Any help?  It is loaded with a ton of info that I REALLY need. 

TIA

Problem is with some of the proprietary software created by some MTSOs, the normal dot still will not save even when you have the prompt, all you get is a message that normal dot is open elsewhere or some such nonsense, and then you are offered the opportunity to save normal.dot by another name, and even then it still won't save.

I posted earlier an autoclose macro that may solve this problem; however, it probably would be a good idea to also use an autoexit macro as well to cover all bases and I will post both here. 

If that does not work for you, I do have another work-around but it is a lot more complicated.  You can solve part of the problem by attaching and add-in your own templates, and save your macros and your autotext there instead of normal dot, but autocorrect is saved in normal dot, and you have to save your normal dot to save your autocorrect:

So try these macros;  cut and paste into your macro editor:

Sub AutoClose()
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
MSGBOX "Normal template is saved
    Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
MSGBOX "Normal template is not saved
End Sub

Sub AutoExit()
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:
If NormalTemplate.Saved = False Then NormalTemplate.Save
MSGBOX "Normal template is saved
    Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
MSGBOX "Normal template is not saved
End Sub

If everything is saving as it should, then you can just delete the line of code that has the msgbox so that word just closes without having to click okay. Write me if you need some help doing this.

Hang in there. Could be worse. You could be trying to find a shirt to match your skirt for tomorrow morning. :)

Last year was the pits for me. My mom died. A month later my car died. A day after we finally came up with major bucks to get the car fixed, my sister almost died from an aneurysm and spent over a month in the hospital 100 miles away. Then my grandson was born 1 month early, too small and with a cyst on his brain and spent 3 weeks in the hospital. Then we found out that one of our twin grandaughter's, who was born with a hole in her heart, still has it, and although smaller, hasn't healed by 18 months as expected. Things were a bit rough last year, but I have a wonderful husband and kids, a strong family and a sense of feeling thankful for what I have. One of my mom's favorite sayings was, "This too shall pass." I certainly hope it does for you. Take a deep breath (another one of mom's favorites) and march on! You can do it.

P.S. Sister is fine, grandson is thriving and granddaughter is healthy and due for a cardiology recheck next month. They're going to monitor for now but will have to close up the hole in her heart should she start to get sickly. She's 20 months and 30 lbs. and 34 inches tall, the exact same size as her twin.

Good luck to you.

Here's the instructions from the Word Help files:

The Normal template (Normal template: A global template that you can use for any type of document. You can modify this template to change the default document formatting or content.) opens whenever you start Word, and it includes default styles, AutoText, macros, toolbars, and other customizations that determine the basic look of your document.

1. On the File menu, click Open, and then navigate to C:Documents and Settingsuser nameApplication DataMicrosoftTemplates.
   

   If no templates are listed in the Open dialog box, click the arrow next to the Files of type box, and then click Document Templates.

   
   
2. Double-click the Normal.dot file to open it. To be certain that you're working in the default template, check to see that Normal.dot appears in the Word title bar.
   
3. Make any changes you want, using the menus and dialog boxes just as you would to change default settings for a document, but remember that any changes you make to Normal.dot will be applied to documents that you create in the future.
   
4. When you have finished, on the Standard toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Save .

Note  If Normal.dot is renamed, damaged, or moved, Word automatically creates a new version (which uses the original default settings) the next time that you start Word. The new version will not include any customizations you made to the version that you renamed or moved.

turbo-clauses.       Just laugh with me, I know what she meant, it just sounded funny.

normal does not exist today on any level, cultural, socioeconomical, et al.....

You must be one of those who has preconceived ideas on sanity.......LOLOL

Oh yeah, D.C. is real normal these years.....Washington DC that is...ROFL

*normal* means one has a preconceived idea of what *sanity* is....

Everyone has got a story - there is not a family out there that does not have some kind of *story* - crosses all socioeconomic levels too......it's not just an urban blight thing - it has crossed all levels of society/cultures/religions et cetera......I don't need to tell any of you, I'm sure you are all seeing the changes from decade to decade just like the rest of us!  Sad world, indeed. 

The Amish are the most peaceful.....they keep their doors unlocked.  THIS last thing was THE STRAW BREAKING THE CAMEL'S BACK in my mind!!!  Geesh....and a milkman no less.....an area where milk is still delivered to people's doorsteps (I grew up with that happening but haven't seen THAT in decades).  Terrible world, little optimism (what with all these *politics*), very sad, indeed.