Re: Just a Thank You

From: Margie (nomoremargiesjunk_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:25:51 GMT

I transcribed some baseball-related stuff and I entered things like
World Series, American League, National League, etc. They are still
in there, and it cracks me up when one pops up inadvertently while I'm
working.

Margie

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:56:53 -0500, CyberCafe <pkbk@badger.tds.net>
wrote:

>
>
>djgordon wrote:
>
>> Just wanted to say thank you for the numerous discussions on here about
>> expanders and the like. Since I don't do medical reports and notes I never
>> thought about using something like that as I never know what I might be
>> typing next. But here lately I've been doing a ton of training seminars for
>> GlaxoSmithKline for their Coreg clinical trials and I have gotten so sick of
>> typing the word vancomycin that I finally just went into QuickWords in WP
>> and set up a shortcut to type it every time I type vnc. I am in the process
>> of putting in a lot more for meds and disease states that I know I type
>> quite a bit and it's great. So just a thank you to those of you who have
>> discussed this and talked about how it helps in production. I'll be honest
>> and say that for the longest time I have wondered what the heck I'm even
>> doing here as a lot of the discussions don't even pertain to the type of
>> transcription I do, but I have finally found something that helped out.
>> Thanks all.
>
>I also do a lot of transcription (particularly interviews) not related to
>medicine, and I can't survive without my expander. I'm glad I'm an MT because
>some interviews were related to medicine, and I would not have been able to do
>them without the MT training. You might want to think about a medical spell
>checker if you continue to do projects like the one you mentioned.
>
>Barb
>
>>
>>
>> Dani

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