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I have spent the entire night formatting documents. - dnr

Posted: Apr 26, 2013

It really hurts the line count bad. So far, I have had a lot of documents that require quite a bit of formatting - H&Ps, consults and ER reports from several facilities with each having different requirements and everyone wanting the ROS and PE different. Also, lack of punctation is hurting a lot too. I can't wait until I get out of here. Just 8 more months and counting!

At least you have work. - OOW

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Well, at least for today. Typically NJA on Friday and Sunday. - dnr

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At least 50% of my days are spent NJA. Thursday I usually have work. Friday I typically run out Saturday it is 50% whether or I run out. Sunday I run out IF I have any work at all.

weekends - worker

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Weekends used to always have work until they told people to switch their schedules around..now it runs out.

MM SR is the worst.... - sm

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I swear it's getting worse instead of better with all the mistakes I've seen. Things that used to be formatted no longer are, phrases typed that weren't dictated, and on and on. Do you make macros for all the headers? That saves a lot of time, in my opinion, instead of trying to make the text that's already there into headers. I do more deleting and re-typing, unfortunately, than trying to take the garbage that SR typed and make it right. That just takes too much time.

How did you make your heading macro? - dnr

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I had a working macro using ShortCut, but the way they have the heading now, it has a tendency to swallow up more words. They really wrecked the way headings work with their "upgrade"

If you type in Fluency... - sm

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that's the platform I work in, you make the heading as usual, red tagged and all, then block and copy the whole thing and do ctrl+E, click add (or use alt D or whatever it is) and you have your macro. Just make sure you have copied the entire header completely, right down to where your first line of text under the header would start. That will ensure you've copied the whole thing and will then put your cursor where it needs to go when you use your macro.

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