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May I please hear from those successful at VR? - Please help.
Posted: Mar 21, 2012
I know there are many who are opposed to VR, but I would like to hear from those successful at it and enjoy it. I need some tips. I have to do this, and I want to get good at it no matter what.
My account is fairly easy. There are some problem dictators who should not be on there though, and this keeps my line count down to 250-300 most days. Today, they were not on there and I edited 400 LPH!! However, my hands are really hurting. I am having trouble feeling comfortable with the new "home position" of my fingers down at the Ctr, Shift, ALT, and arrow keys. If I could keep them there, that would be okay but I have to keep bringing them back up to the original home position to type something in. How do you do this.
Also, do you have the cursor following along with the voice? I keep trying that, but it appears it is slowing me down. In order for me to do that, I would have to speed up the voice so much that I am afraid I would miss something. Is it just as fast to read and use the Ctrl arrow to follow along?
As far as cutting and pasting, I find it easier to use the mouse, mostly because when I cut and then place the cursor where I want it to paste, it pastes on the line below that, EVERY time. I am using ChartNet.
Again, I am finding that the new lower "home position" is what is hurting my hands and making them sore, not using the mouse. I try to use it as little as possible, but when we have to pull in previous dictation from an old report, it is so much faster.
Does anyone have any tips that they would like to share for speed and hand pain? Thanks in advance.
Don't know if you'd call me successful... - time4achange
[ In Reply To ..]...but here's what I do. My "home" position for my right hand is middle finger on the up arrow. Then I can go up or down quickly with that finger, L or R with index or ring finger. I put some nail polish nubbins in several layers on my J key, my E key, my right Alt key, my P key, my left shift key, and my / key. The raised bump on the J key allows me to find my "other" home position quickly. The shift and E key allow me to move from header to text quickly, and I also use alt+shift+arrows to highlight text for cut or copy and paste. The others I use a lot for my platform (I'm not on ChartNet). I use my arrows and page up or down to move through the text, not the cursor with the voice. As far as the pain, my chair is up pretty high relative to the keyboard. That seems to be a less awkward position. If I have a whole day of really hauling, my right wrist will start to hurt, but otherwise this seems to work. Hopefully others will have some good suggestions for you.
Nail polish? Never thought of that. - Thanks so much
[ In Reply To ..]Time4achange, you are quite resourceful. After typing using the same "home position" for more than 30 years, it is very hard to change. Your keys and mine are not the same, but the idea of nail polish is quite a good one. I am also going to see if I can elevate myself and still reach the pedal because my chair is broken and I can't change the height.
Thanks so much for these suggestions.
VR - CB
[ In Reply To ..]I agree with you, I don't understand some of these editing programs where you have to make your own shortcuts (they should be part of the system) or make you use the arrow keys (your hands should always be on the home keys for speed/typing the corrections).
I used Dictaphone Extext before - much more efficient - sometimes averaging 500 lines an hour in a good day. I'm stuck using an M*Modal based program now so downloaded Autohotkeys (free) and programmed some of the Dictaphone key combinations/shortcuts. I disconnected the cursor and use these shortcuts to follow the dictation, cut, paste, back up, select and highlight, capitalize, etc. so I can keep my hands on the home keys. Also, because I use the ALT button as part of my combinations, I bought an ergonomic keyboard which has bigger ALT buttons than most to make that more comfortable. Productivitytalk.com has lots of great tips. Good luck!
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