markers...I settled on semicolon (sm)
Posted By: tnmt on 2007-09-25
In Reply to: yup. I think you are right...OVERLOAD! - backandforth
for phrases and the straight brackets, i.e. [, and ], for the word markers after playing around with it. I kept hitting the shift key when I tried to use / as a marker. For times when I want to use a semicolon, I made a short form jj (and now I don't remember why, but there WAS a reason, lol).
Anyway what's important is that you settle on what's comfortable for you. The markers were a big change for me, too. Good luck and keep trying! You can do it!
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QA markers
I do QA and as long as I think the MT made a good effort to get the blanks, then I don't have a problem with trying to figure out the rest. Obviously we don't like swiss cheese reports either, but sometimes it just takes another set of ears to make the whole thing come together. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 sets of ears before we can get it down to few enough blanks to send to the facility. These doctors who slur whole sentences together in one mangled word should be getting some kind of feedback from the MT vendors. Legally, we shouldn't fill in those kinds of sentences because we never really heard what he/she said!
I use markers
Gets to confusing with the space bar and I have accidently inserted things that were not supposed to be there. I use the ~ for phrases and the for words.
If you have questions, feel free to e-mail. I have had IT for a long time and love it.
Markers. nm
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Use the semicolon
Name it something like ;y with your expansion being
-year-old
Yes, you can set your own markers sm
I did not use spacebar because I use Auto Correct too and that works on the spacebar.
MY QA took out the semicolon. What do you do?
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I tried the permanent markers...sm
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I think she should have replaced the semicolon with a
comma and should have taken out the other comma you have in there.
Semicolon -- Am I Wrong?
The QA people in my company insist that a semicolon goes in the following sentence - I beg to differ. What's your take?
"He appeared comfortable; in no acute distress or pain."
I work QA and no way does a semicolon go there!
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I would put a comma but definitely not a semicolon.
Jump markers in Word
Can you please tell me how you created these in Word. Still trying to figure that out. TIA!
You don't need a macro. Just add a semicolon in front of
your yo abbreviation so autocorrect will back up and take out that space. Then type 34;yo and it will expand to 34-year-old.
Agree with this, shouldn't have a semicolon.
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Bayscribe jump markers?
Is there a way to put a jump marker in Bayscribe? I have looked through all the information I was given and even checked their website, but I can't find this anywhere. I'm trying to make some shells and would like to have this feature if possible. Thanks.
Use a semicolon prefix before your yo abbreviation, then you can
type 34;yo to get 34-year-old. There are lots of prefixes you can use--see SH's help file. BTW, this also works in autocorrect.
Instant Text users. Do you use markers.. sm
I am new to IT and so far am using my space bar as it is what I am accustomed to but realize there are lots of reasons to use markers. Just curious how many of you use markers and how many use the space bar and what your opinions might be. Thanks!
I use markers. i use semi-colon for pharses, which is where i put all my shortcuts at. sm
works a whole lot better than spacebar and only took me about a week to get used to the change when i switched from spacebar. FYI, i don't keep my thing open at the bottom either like some say they do. i move it to where i can't see it and just use memory so that i can go faster without selecting 1 or 2 or whatever pops up down there.
{@KEY BkSp}-pack-per-year is for Shorthand. Using the semicolon works with both Shorthand and
;yo = -year-old
;py= -pack-year
etc...
Replace semicolon with comma, remove comma
.
10 reports/hour or 25 markers/hour
NM
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