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Week in Review for April 14 – 20

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Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for April 14 – 20. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! This was a busy week for us; we finished up the Active Words series, took a little detour to discuss Qwerty and Dvorak keyboards, and finished by starting our biggest series yet: Info on the transcription job field. I hope these blogs have been helpful, and remember, if you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me … Continue reading →

Active Words: Opening Websites and Documents

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If you haven’t heard of Active Words before, I suggest starting at the beginning and reading the first blogs, here. AW has another function that I use constantly: Opening up a website that I go to regularly, without having to open another tab in my browser and then bring up my list of bookmarks with the website listed in it. With AW, all I have to do is type in the word or letter I assigned it in AW (Google, for example, has the letter “g” assigned to it) and then hit the F11 key. No matter where I’m at, … Continue reading →

Active Words: Automatic vs Manual Correcting

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In my last blog, I talked about Active Word’s ability to fix all of the typing errors you make, without you having to do anything but enter the information into AW one time (about a 20 second process.) When you enter these corrections into AW, it allows you to choose whether the corrections will be done automatically (“acess” becomes “access” without you doing anything) or letting you hit a “hot key” when you want the correction to be done. Knowing whether you want the correction to be done automatically or manually is about 70% of mastering AW. There are very … Continue reading →