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SmarType Help, Please - Confused

Posted: Mar 08, 2013

I am just staring with SmarType and am having an issue whenever I use the word "he." SmarType kept replacing "he" with "her," so I deleted "her" from the auto-option. I thought that would fix the issue, but now it's replacing "he" with "heart," which is now the first auto-option word beginning with "h-e."

It's getting monotonous and time-consuming having to go back and correct this, as you can imagine.

Has anyone else encountered this with SmarType and how did you fix it? I've looked through every section of the instructions and can't find what the issue might be.

Also, I've noticed that it keeps trying to expand certain names (patient or clinicians) with the names of syndromes. I'm a bit perplexed about how to stop that particular problem, too.

Any expert SmarType advice would be really, REALLY appreciated...TIA.

It's been years since I had SmarType - But as I recall...

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...one solution would be to simply add the word "he" as one of your expansions, i.e. he = he

Unfortunately, it's been so long that I don't even remember the SmarType term for a regular expansion, but I do know that on the old version I used, at least, you wouldn't need it (or want) it to be a "block," just one of the short entries.

Spot on. Add the word he as a word in your - dictionary. Same with clinician names

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If you have a Dr. Anderson and Smartype wants to keep putting Anderson clamp, then just add Anderson and that will solve that problem. I do stuff like that all the time. I only delete things from the main library if the expansion is cumbersome and I have a shorter one that I prefer.

I've used Smartype for years, so let me know if you need any other help with it.

Smartype Guidance - Joe

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Please add the word "he" into the Vocabulary, as described in this important document: http://smartype.com/id10.html

For doctor's names, etc. that you use frequently, add them to the Vocabulary as well. That will keep them from expanding into symptoms. And remember, if you want to insert any text exactly as you've typed, even if it's a word not in the Vocabulary, just press Escape.

Smartype crashing, creating DUMP FILE - STEPH

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Please reply here - my email is not up anymore -
I woke up with the msg of ST crashing due to an exception!! I cannot find any info anywhere for what to do!! No one is answering my stress emails..anyone have this issue and what did you do??? help!!!

SmarType - Thank you all - Not Confused Now

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Thanks so much for everyone's input. Now that I've conquered adding words and phrases, this program is AMAZING. I'm already a very speedy transcriptionist but I can see where the utilization of this program will make me even faster...woot!!!

Thanks again to all who responded. Now I see what all the praises of SmarType are about!

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