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Posted: Jun 16, 2010

With the newest version of EMDAT, can you type in Word and paste into Emdat, as long as there are no generated fields and it is just straight type?

No c/p need to work in Word through Emdat - EmdatQA

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When Emdat is open, you can open Word (I assigned Word to my F9 key). You can transcribe while in Word if your player will work - you may have to select a different player. The problem is not that you can work in Word through Emdat or even that you can copy and paste from Word into Emdat. The problem is that you bring hidden coding from Word that could lock up your document in Emdat. I lost 3 hours of work one day because I copied a previous transcription done by someone else (who had transcribed it in Word) and when I pasted it into my Emdat document, it carried the Word hidden coding. I had to contact support. They copied it into Wordpad, exposed the coding, stripped it out and was able to copy the report I needed back into Emdat.

Now I use Shorthand as my expansion program and only use Word to do spellcheck. BTW, if you try to bring Word formatting into Emdat, you will have a very messy report that you have to straighten out before releasing the report through Emdat.

If you NEED to transcribe in something other than Emdat, you may want to try WordPad, but I won't guarantee there will not be formatting issues.

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