my Transcription favorites are gone! Is there a way to backup

• my Transcription favorites are gone! Is there a way to backup - California
  • Retrieving Favorites - Running Through
  • In IE, just go to File, then Export to back up your favorites. - sm
  • Favorites - No Name
    • Thank you all for the help. I wasn't able to - California
  • Don't know, I doubt it - sm - ks
  • I hate computers nm - so sorry
    • Yeah, some days I do too, until I remember the typewriter. - California
      • Did you look in your recycle bin to see if maybe you hit delete by accident...nm - i_am_mtheaded
      • I dunno. I sure do miss my Selectric and those onion-skin copies. nm - Good times, good times. :)

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1.  The Wedding Singer

2.  Independence Day

3.  Home Alone

(not that anyone really cares mind you)

ER notes and oncology. 

1. Psych.

2. Ortho.

3. Cardiology.

4. Any discharge summaries.

Control + backspace to delete words to the left.

Control + delete to delete words to the right.

Shift + arrows to highlight words and/or paragraphs.

Control + arrows to move between words.

Here is another nice tip:

Messed-up Typing

If you are a new Word user, you may have noticed that there are many ways you can mess up your document using Word. This comment isn't meant to be flippant or disparaging. The truth of the matter is that Word provides quite a bit of editing power. Along with that power goes the ability to mess up a document if the powerful tools are not used correctly.

A very simple example may be in order. Let's say you are typing along, and you look at your document. You notice that some text you previously entered is gone, and each character you type seems to also delete a character. What is going on?

If this happens to you, stop for just a moment. Take a look at the status bar at the bottom of the Word document window. If you see the letters OVR in bold type on the status bar, the problem is that you have inadvertently hit the INSERT key as you were typing. When you do, Word enters a special editing mode known as "overtype mode" (that's what the OVR characters stand for). While in overtype mode, everything you type replaces something else in your document. For instance, when you type a letter, it replaces the letter to the right of the insertion point. When overtype mode is not active, your text is inserted where the insertion point is located.

To undo your messed-up document, first turn off overtype mode by pressing the INSERT key again. (The OVR characters on the status bar should no longer be bold.) Then, press CTRL+Z to undo your last edit. You can continue to press CTRL+Z until all the characters you inadvertently overtyped are again within your document. Now you can go ahead and continue typing without overtyping your original text.

every time she said CBC she followed it with capital C, capital B, capital C.     She was a PA.

You can look up expansions for abbreviations.  It also lists normal lab values, symbols and numbers definitions for the deciphering the ShortHand that nurses and other clinical personnel use on the chart.  It even has the JCAHO dangerous abbreviations list.  It just has a lot of little neat functions that I've found helpful.  Here it is:

http://www.medabbrev.com/main.cfm

pt=patient, hle=hyperlipidemia, hx=history, nd=and, nx=nontoxic, gm=gentleman, wsg=worsening, nt=nontender, fp=followup, fup=followup, otc=OTC, otcc=over-the-counter, gi=GI, gii=gastrointestinal, nvd=No nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea.  The list goes on and on!

Those are just a few of many.  I have most brand name meds set up for auto capitalization.  I also have abbreviations for most headings, ie: alg=ALLERGIES:, pexn=PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, soh=SOCIAL HISTORY, laby=LABORATORY:.

I don't know what I would do without my expansions.  I highly recommend them.  Good luck gettin more set up.

I have a second computer available, but I'm seriously considering getting a second Dictatphone system. I've already had headsets and foot pedals go on me.

Anyone else?

The one I normally use is sitting right on top of it. I have a switch box that allows me to share the keyboard and monitor with both. I also periodically transfer my updated necessary Word files to the backup computer.

I'm glad this subject came up as we do some traveling and I was just thinking about this as well.  How is the best way to back up the data?  Just use a CD or someone mentioned a flash drive external hard drive?  Don't know much about this new fangled technology, so am finding this very interesting and helpful.  Thanks for the info. 

I always keep my ShortHand files (and all other files I need to keep backed up) in the My Documents folder.  That way, when I have to do backups, I backup only the My Documentes folder.  Makes it a little more simple.  Then when starting shorthand you just open your *.spf file from the My Documents folder and load that.  Initially you can copy the *.spf file from the folder listed in the prior reply to your My Documents folder.  Then in the future, just open it from there and all new additions will be saved there.  I hope that makes sense.