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If your working in Word, you can create macros - sm

Posted: Aug 23rd, 2018 - 11:44 pm In Reply to: Tips to increase line count - Help

to do any routine tasks in the report. I agree with the use of an expander. The first time I did a doc's report, I would save the main report text in my expander. I would put ## in all the places where I would need to put new information, like the patient's age, temperature, etc. Then I had a macro to jump to each ## in the report. I would tweak these initial templates as I went adding one for each unique report type I heard. I also had macros for deleting a paragraph, sentence, etc. and learned lots of keyboard shortcuts. However, after my employer increased line count requirements a 3rd time, I decided to get out. Now I'm working at a call center and have already received more recognition and rewards than I ever did in MT. I hope it works out better for you.

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Tips to increase line count - Help (Views: 1093, 2018-08-23, 12:12 pm)
- Increase line count - Veteran MT (Views: 1011, 2018-08-23, 12:37 pm)
- I agree with Veteran MT and will add.. - MT68 (Views: 775, 2018-08-23, 12:46 pm)
- Just my preference for a word expander: Instant Text - sm (Views: 743, 2018-08-23, 1:18 pm)
  - Agree - MT (Views: 593, 2018-08-23, 4:14 pm)
    - You unfortunately soon won't be able to use IT with any Nuance-based platform at all, though. - Due to VDI. Not with Emdat Inscribe or EditScript (Views: 841, 2018-08-23, 4:33 pm)
      - VDI - no Instant Text ??? Not with Emdat, Inscribe, etc.??? - workstoomuch (Views: 2192, 2018-08-24, 12:19 pm)
        Word expanders that sit on your desktop will not be - accessible while you are (Views: 1145, 2018-08-24, 12:49 pm)
        In a nutshell. More posts on the Company Board about VDI, for anyone interested. - nm (Views: 1037, 2018-08-24, 3:11 pm)
- shortcuts for everything! - long time MT (Views: 762, 2018-08-23, 4:48 pm)
  - Thanks - I will try (Views: 574, 2018-08-23, 7:14 pm)
- Use an expander - smills (Views: 664, 2018-08-23, 6:54 pm)
- If your working in Word, you can create macros - sm
  - Not the OP, but - have a question (Views: 860, 2018-08-24, 2:40 am)
    - Yes, there are metrics, so if you want to avoid - sm (Views: 608, 2018-08-26, 11:59 pm)