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Customizing MS Word auto number feature - TMEFG
Posted: Dec 23, 2009
We use a Word-based (2003) platform and when the documents are finished, they are automatically uploaded into Meditech. Most of the transcriptionists at our work have hashed out and come up with the best way to number lists that looks nice in Meditech. About half of us use the auto number feature and the rest do not. I have figured out how to customize the auto number feature to the way we want it formatted, but the settings did not stick when I signed out and signed back in. Does anyone have any insight to this? If it is something that just happens with the way Word is set up, I guess I can turn it off or just deal, but it would be awsome if I could make it stick. Thanks for any and all help :)
Customizing MS Word auto number feature - eagles_fan
[ In Reply To ..]I created a macro to create numbered lists. First I type the list without numbers. Then I highlight the list and run the macro. I'm using Word 2007, so my procedure to create a macro is different from yours. I hope this is helpful.
Text from Word to MEDITECH - MT who knows
[ In Reply To ..]Good luck with that! :-) First of all, it is not MS Word or any other application other than MEDITECH. I don't know what version of MEDITECH you are using and that may make a difference. I can only tell you what I know and experienced from creating MS Word templates to use with MEDITECH and HealthBridge. First of all, MEDITECH is not too "bright," :-). MEDITECH does not "understand" all the formatting features of MS Word or any other modern software program for that matter. :-) MEDITECH does not like auto-numbering or hanging indents or other stuff of any kind -- it's antiquated language will override and you get what MEDITECH version can offer. Macros do not matter, because all macros are are automated functions to do what you do, i.e. autonumbering, etc., in the first place; so, basically with macros keep in mind that you are just performing the same task only it is automated. :-) From my experience, working with a vendor, Word 2003, IT analyst, and MEDITECH, first thing you have to do is determine what your output can handle, because your input is only as good as your output. You can have the top of the line everything (which I have experienced when working as an MT with my ISP and as a graphic artist), you can format, set resolution, etc. to the high heaven, but if your output device/MT server/digital printer, or whatever cannot handle what you have created, i.e. in your case auto numbering, the system will either reject it or translate it into something else, which is what happens with the antiquated MEDITECH system. AND MTs NEED TO KNOW THIS, because nowhere on earth would anyone in this modern age even assume that there is a system out there that does not "understand" formatting techniques that are being used in MS Word (basically because everyone has used these features for years and all kinds of software programs use the features of Word, which are basic, and other programs use features that are even more advanced. Actually, I would say that ALL or at least most at this point in time medical records systems unless they are really up-to-date with the rest of the world lack this, which is why PDFs were such a big hit over the last few years -- but people in other businesses/industries have been using PDFs for years and really have moved on from them or improved them to a greater point.
WORD 2003 AND THE ANTIQUATED MEDITECH SYSTEM (and probably other medical records systems) ARE NOT COMPATIBLE. You can only create in MS Word what MEDITECH can handle if you want anything close.
Numbering - TMEFG
[ In Reply To ..]ExText is our platform, but the jobs upload into Meditech after we finish the job. We are now pushing to have more doctors e-sign (which has to be done in Meditech), so we want it to be as flawless as we can possibly get it without all the screwy formatting. Because we know that Meditech does not recognize things like the tabs set in auto numbering, degree symbols, or accent marks, we are trying to standardize the way we do things. I love using the auto number feature especially if a doctor goes back and adds a number in the middle of the list because it automatically renumbers the list for you. I customized it to take out all of the tabs and use two spaces after the number and before the first word, but with every document, it starts to indent again. All I want is for the setting for the indent to stick.
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