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We're in the business of making money from production, and MTs aren't reading the help file on their Expander to see how to get the most out of it? I posted about Ctrl+K and a whole slew of entries that would make things easier (such as go back and change diagnosis to diagnoses, scroll down and back, delete words/lines in various directions, etc.), and MTs were gushing about how wonderful, how they never knew. Just very strange to me that MTs wouldn't know these things until somebody told them.
On that jolly note, here's another help (I'm not the original poster):
Use a semicolon for prefixes and suffixes:
For example make entries like this:
;t
and make the expansion -type
m;
and make the expansion micro
z;
and make the expansion ization
etc. you get the idea
Next time you're flying along you and hear "microhematuria," all you have to do is type m;hematuria. Same goes for hospital;z , which now expands hospitalization. You can even use these to combine with your shortcuts. For example, if you have a shortcut "ho" for "hospital" and you want to type hospitalization, you could then just type ho;z .
Also worth checking out is the "remarks" feature of Shorthand. Have something you're always forgetting? Make a remark in Shorthand. My company wants "times 3" transcribed as "x3." Since I'm having a heckuva time remembering this one, I made a remark for "times" that pops up a warning window every time I type the word.
And know you can LINK dictionaries together. You can also create a shortcut that will automatically hide the suggestion window when it's in your way as well as bring it back up when you're ready. It's all in there! |
I'm always stunned when people are surprised about this (sm) - MT
