she is nana - the one who is 'spreading the word' over here
Posted By: anon on 2008-03-11
In Reply to: Quick question for you - sm
that over there is up and running.
She does not get it yet.
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Go Nana!
I am not very old, but have been doing this a long, long time. I worked on a typewriter with carbon paper. Strolling down memory lane! What a joy! I'm sure you found out like I did that the world of computers has made life easier to a degree; however, like you I am from the old school where I still pull out my Stedman's even though Google is just a keystroke or two away from me. I guess I just feel better seeing it in black and white on paper. I have had to learn to dwell amongst this wonderful cyber world! I love this board, and I liked your post. Well put! We need you Nana! Keep up the good work! The new MTs coming into this field are the wave to our future, and I feel they deserve a chance. We were all new once. A lot of us were fortunate enough to work on-site for a long time before diving into the shark tank from home! LOL - This helped me so much! I am still learning each and every day even after this long time and I am loving every minute of it. MT or BUST!  
Nana - thanks. (sm)
Can I get more advice from you on that first way you do it - when I talk to my boss Monday?
How long have you been doing this? Is it working to everybody's satisfaction?
Please write to me if you have anything more you can share about it. I'm working for a walk-in clinic with about 5 centers and they are going a little crazy at the moment trying to figure out how to do all this.
keywestsweetie@gmail.com
Thanks
Chrissy
Nana....
if you had a website that was hijacked...do you really believe that you have to just let it go and go start another site? She is telling a HUGE LIE. Her story makes no sense whatsoever. She has no control over this site anymore BECAUSE IT IS NOT HERS!!!! IT WAS NEVER HERS!!!! She was just the money handler! She is a big, fat, greasy LIAR!
I loved it too Nana, old MT here also,
boy do I remember the carbon. I started in radiology where there were 5 carbons, and if I made a typo I had to fix every single one, what a pain that was. Let me say also, I was with MQ 16 years and if I left a blank for QA, they never gave me feedback, never told me about Google (not a computer lover), when I researched, I used books, of which I have many. I was lucky enough as far as the doctor names that my two accounts were local and I had the good old phonebook. I did like your post, made remember the good old days, and sometimes I wish I had one of those typewriters. Have a nice day everyone, I am off today, going to visit my expectant daughter.
Nana needs a hobby
Wow, you sure waste a lot of time getting your anger out at someone who is within her rights to comment on the quality or lack of quality of MTs. Maybe you Nana are a decent MT and they certainly are out there. Can a QA person vent or do you have such a problem with that that you have to write an editorial about it. Get working and get over yourself.
Nana, U are a perfect example...
of all that was wrong with this site B4 - negative, repetitive bashing for no reason other than boredom, I guess. It's interesting how this site has become a whole lot more informative and fun to come to now that all of us horrible "banned" people have come back - in fact, I wear my banning by what's her name as a badge of honor! So please do enjoy her new site - and we'll enjoy ours, mmmkay? 
Nana referred to me as QADRAGONLady below and... SM
I wanted to move this discussion back to the top so I started a new thread. She asked if I share any websites or information with the MTs I QA and my answer is, I do.
For instance, when looking up a doctor's name, did any of the MTs here know that most states have a state department for professional licensing where you can look up MDs, DOs, physical therapists, nurses (both LPNs and RNs), etc? So in addition to using the AMA, website which is great because you can do a sound alike search, you can also go to each state's licensing website. I should add that no one ever told me this when I was an MT. I just discovered it on my own because I cared enough about the work I put out to make sure I exhausted every resource possible.
Another nifty, self-taught, trick of the trade... I have the website for every facility for every account I work on in my favorites. A lot of times a facility will have a doctor finder on their website. In addition, they may say the name of a ward or department that you might be able to reference on the website. Not to mention, it helps to know where the facility is located for future reference such as when a dictator mentions a place of employment in a patient's social history. If you know where your facility is located, then you can look at the yellow pages online for that area.
I always share any great terminology or drug websites I come across. There's a great website that will list most every hospital in any particular state and a link to that hospital's website. All I had to do to find that website was do a Google search for "hospitals in Arizona or California or Texas" (whatever state you need) and I found theagapecenter.com website.
No one person ever sat me down as an MT and gave me a step by step on how to use my reference books or the internet. I taught myself because I CARED. That's the problem with a lot of the MTs I QA. They don't care. The say the MTSOs only care about the bottom line, well the MTs only care about the bottom line too and the end result is poor quality and subsequently loss of American jobs.
But so what?!?! I'm just a dragon lady and most QA people are just big meanies anyway. MTs can keep blaming everybody else for their low wages and offshoring, but it's time to step up and take some responsibility.
Nana referred to me as QADRAGONALady below and..
Through those many years we had the luxury of time for research and education. These MTs today must concentrate on getting as many lines as possible within as short a time as possible. There is just not the luxury of time for research we enjoyed. Its a whole different ball game now. These young robots need every bit of patience, encouragement, and help we can give them in their struggle to maintain a living in our chosen field. They memorize quickly and do not forget the things they must learn on the fly.
Wasn't bashing you Nana!
I just thought my post might come off like that LOL. Guess I was sort of agreeing with you! Didn't want it to sound wrong since I attached it to yours!
I agree with you, Nana. It's an uphill battle. SM
I do my part by being very lenient with the MTs when reviewing work -- i.e., I don't count off for using cc versus mL or for typing Alzheimer's instead of Alzheimer, etc. The dangerous abbreviations list is for written notes and orders on the patient's chart.
The flip side of me being lenient is when another QA person counts off for things I've been lenient on, then the MT throws a fit and says "well one QA says one thing and another QA says another."
So, there is a need for a standardized set of rules across the board that all companies should adhere to. I'm just not sure AAMT or whatever they are called now are the people for the job. It should be a committee made up of MTs and dictators.
JMO
one more ques nana: digital signature. ?how do you get it on there (sm)
On that first way you are describing --- are your docs able to SIGN OFF on the note digitally?
Microsoft Word.. The oold Word used to do this and I'm new to 2003 Word..nm
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If you picked the correct Word version at installation, if you pull up a blank Word page & do an inc
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Sorry, but your schedule doesn't justify making up your own rules. Use the word board for word q
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I simply used the word as the point of reference. If I had referred to someone AS 'that word'
your read my post that said we are all just people no matter what color we are?
Info/help on open Word 2007 docx with Word 2003.
I have a friend who sent me a document with .docx extension, presumably Word 2007. I can open it in Word 2003; however, all I see are musical notes and highlighting, no text (this is a document with words and highlighting only, no pictures, music notes, etc.). I tried to open this with Notepad and only see the usual gibberish.
I know I opened another 2007 Word doc before and I remember seeing the converter load at that time but that was probably a year ago. Is there something that has changed that I'm not aware of?
Darn Microsoft.
Is any one running ExText with Word 2000 and EditScript with Word 2003 sm
I am interested to know if anyone is running two platforms with a different version of Word on one computer.
I am running eScription's ES with Word 2003 and want to run ExText but their version of Word is 2000. Has anyone done this or doing it now. If so, have you run into any problems.
I can't seem to get a straightforward answer from the Techs at either company. I can't just load ExText and jeopardize it interfering with eScription.
I am interested to hear any and all comments. Thank you so much in advance for any help!
it is attached to your version of Word. Open Word and it'll be on your tool bar. NM
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I type the letter "l" in IT and the word cholelithiasis is my word selected?Why?
I want to get rid of this. Entered left again but it is still giving me cholelithiasis as the only word option to select from.
This is why I find this program crazy. Everytime I sit down for the day, there is a whole new experience with it!!! I have to stop and think before each word!!!
How do you make fields in Word Perfect like in Word? I'm drowning out here
in new keyboard commands, macros, etc. Thanks.
In the future, please post word questions on the Word board.
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Can you use the Word autocorrects or only Smartype? What about the Word auto text? tia nm
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Word AutoText, AutoCorrect, and Spellchecker, and other Word features
I have just started working for a company that uses Word (my previous experience was HTML-based and had its own autotext and spellchecker).
I have never bought medical spellcheckers nor Instant Text, especially that I have learned a lot from posters here that one could use the autocorrect feature for long words/phrases/paragraphs/templates. I have heard of people saying autocorrect was not meant to be used for such.
I have been browsing some features of shortcuts in Word (using the Assistant), and have discovered that it has AutoText. I tried it by highlighting a whole document (canned procedured), then hit Alt+F3, assigned a code, and voila! I have a template that readily inserts into an open Word document by typing the code and hitting Enter.
Also, I have learned that I can insert empty fields (for variables in my templates like BP/HR/RR/Temp values by hitting Ctrl+F9, then when I have inserted the autotext for a template with such empty fields, I can readily jump from one field to the next (to fill them up with values) by hitting F11 (or Shift+F11 to go to previous empty field).
We do know that many dictators want us to type verbatim even for running sentences, so that I have found the Spelling and Grammar checker feature of Word quite cumbersome. I discovered tonight that I could use just the spellchecker feature by clicking on Tools > Customize, then under Categories, select Tools; under Commands, select Spelling. I dragged that onto my tool bars so I can do a quick spellcheck. Cool thing was, the previous documents I have made with new drug names, etc., which I have spellchecked using a non-Word program, were automatically included in its database (so I do not have to re-enter them as I begin to utilize this feature). Drawback: I could not make a shortcut key for this (have to use the mouse again!)
Then I made my OWN keyboard shortcut for autocorrect by going to Tools>Customize>Keyboard (click on button then another window appears), Under Categories, choose Tools; under Commands, choose AutoCorrect. Under Press new shortcut key, assign the shortcut you want (F key, Alt or Ctrl + desired key), then click on Assign button.
Well, that is all I can share for now. I have learned a lot from posters here, and I hope I have added some info, especially for Word users like me who can be categorized as average.javascript:editor_insertHTML('text',' ');
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Qa sent me 2 corrected report. One had hypenated word changed and other had same word
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why on 1 computer for the same report would the word count be different in Word? (inside)
Like on 1 computer with word the document was 27000 character counts w/spaces
and the other computer (the one i type this account on says 13,000. How can there be such a difference with Word being the same? I am baffled.
Please post word questions on the Word board.
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How do they define a word? Is it characters? Is it the MS Word definition
of a word? You can fit approximately 500 words on one page of typing. It's about $.055 per line, or $2.75 per page. It's up to you. It's not great, but you are a newbie. If you don't have any other offers out there, try it for a while to gain some experience.
Switching from Word 2000 to Word 2003...
Has anyone upgraded from W2000 to W2003? If so, did all your autocorrect entries and normals transfer easily? I would like to upgrade but don't want 2 lose my shortcuts and expanders! TIA
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A majority of the software used IS Word based, or do you just want to use Word by itself? nm
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Word has its own excellent word expander in Autocorrect.
It reminds me of the old PRD
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.....
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what version of Word do you have? Here's a link for Word 2002 -sm
This looks like a long and drawn out thing to do, but it's not that hard really.
When I did it, I checked and found that I had the support template already in the folder, so I was able to skip down to "Back up your AutoCorrect entries on source computer." It's named support.dot and is found here:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice10Macros
Just following the instructions closely, it was really easy.
If you don't have Word 2002, I think there are other methods avaialable.
Here's the link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269006
Can you transfer them from Word 2002 to Word 2003?
I was able to transfer mine from one computer to another when I had Word 2002 on both of them. Now I have a new computer with Word 2003, and have not been able to do it. The autocorrect has a different file name.
Now, regarding my use of the word 'nigger', I used the word as a point of reference. And, to
I had also said, before the thread got moved and deleted that we are all people and that color shouldn't make a difference. What it all comes down to is Dog Chapman is a prejudiced person and he got caught. What his son did was wrong, but it still doesn't make Dog Chapman right.
Regarding AAMT, I thought what one poster said about Dog getting paid 6 cents a line for being AAMTs "motivational" speaker was hilarious. And, what on Earth did having him as a speaker have to do with MT???? Again, I thought it was a tremendously dumb move on AAMTs part.
I dunno about Word 2007 but Word 2003
has AutoCorrect, which is probably what you're meaning. When you program a macro, it records your Keystrokes and actions and is more complicated than what you're needing.
In Word 2003, type the word/phrase you want (i.e., degenerative disc disease) then highlight it. Go to Tools, AutoCorrect Options, and your highlighted word should be in the "with" box. Type your shortcut (i.e., ddd) in the "replace" box. Click Add then OK. To use the new entry, just type what you put in the replace box (ddd). No other keys necessary. I would guess it should be about the same in Word 2007.
Hope that helps! Feel free to email if you have more questions...
Calculating lines using Word Count in Word
I have recently started a job where lines are calculated using the Microsoft Word word count tool. I think I read that you get cheated out of lines if a company counts this way. Is this true?
Word 2007, Word 2002, or 2003
How many transcriptionists have switched to these versions of Word? I am still using Word 2000, and it works well for me, but have been offered job with a company that uses Word 2007, and another company that will let you use Word 2002 or 2003. I am fighting this and am at the point where I just might not accept a new job because of this change. I can't imagine why they would want to change from Word 2000. Your opinions, please. Thank you.
In Word 2007, you can add Word count to the status bar.
Right-click the status bar and select Word count. Once it appears on the status bar, you can double-click it to bring up the statistics dialog box that shows characters. You can also find this option on the Review tab, Proofing group, Word Count.
It is Word. ExText is the word expander
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