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Hi there. Are you still on this board? Hopefully you are on the road to getting much deserved help.  I know many of us are thinking about you.  I would e-mail but don't want to invade your privacy.  Keep us posted and feel free to vent as much as you need to.  I'll be checking here as well as the other boards for you.  We care.

who are making more money with VR than you did with straight transcribing? 

If so, how many LPH did you average when doing straight transcribing? 

If not, how would you rate the difference, approximately in % of income lost?

TIA.

Or does it depend on the keyboard?  If it depends on keyboard, how can I program it to show up on my monitor in the bold green letters I have seen that some can do?  Anyone know?

Does anyone have any info. on transcription for police and sherriff departments?  Including:

- Going rates to transcribe tapes, digital (recorder and call-in) and SR (if it's done), and

- Common billing charge method - per page, report, line, audio hour, audio min.

Have you ever done this type of transcription?  Is it worth it?  Think I remember seeing something in the Archives...

Would you be willing to pay someone to run your errands - dry cleaning, videos, books back to library, take your car in to get serviced, take your car to fill up the gas tank, pick up/drop off someone at the airport, pick up kid at school and take to soccer practice, etc.?  If so, how much would you pay?  Thanks for any responses.

I used to do this about 8-10 years ago, but forgot how to do this.  Please post how to do this.  This is for Word 2002.

Thanks

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Fascinating stuff! 

I was working on a large file and had saved it in Word. I then went back to work on the file and hit a key that made the page go blank.  When I went to close the document it asked me to save any changes on the document. I answered yes, and now when I click on that document it is all blank! Shouldnt the previous info saved be there, even if the current stuff is not? Please help me!! Thank you

Is it right-hand dominant or right hand dominant?  I thought if you were using a phrase to describe a noun the phrase should be hyphenated, as in The patient is right-hand dominant OR The patient is a right-hand dominant male; either way you are describing the noun (male/patient).  thank you

Long discussion short...would/do you *allow*, for lack of a better word, your husband to go out on the weekends w/HIS 20-something year old son and hang out at sports bars and the like?

I have a friend whose husband goes to these places at least 2-3 times a week after work to *relax* after a *stressful day at work*!!! Meanwhile, she is at home working (MTing)...with 2 young children...yet she has to stay at home while he's out drinking and who knows what else! This just infuriates me to no end, even though it's not my husband or really even my business...I probably wouldn't even know about it, but for the fact that this guy asks my husband to accompany him when he goes.. (they work together; my husband is his boss)...

I just want to know if this bothers anyone else as much as it does me...and I KNOW IT AINT NONE OF MY BUSINESS, I haven't ever brought it up to the friend...I just get angry when my husband tells me this...

Since I have always picked up work from an ftp site, I am not familiar with a C-phone or re-record equipment.  What exactly is this and how much would it cost to purchase it?

After living in town for a year and having DSL, I have now moved back to the country where DSL is not an option.  I have contacted my local phone providers as well as Verizon wireless to see about a wireless (satellite?) connection.  Dial-up is so slllloooowwww -- it's driving me nuts.  Does anyone out there have any suggestions. 

I have tried Earthlink, Verizon, and my local phone provider.  The best I could get was Verizon Wireless, but it was $60 a month and had a limit of 5 GB per month.  I'm not sure how much I transmit/receive, so I would prefer an unlimited plan.  Any ideas? 

Also, how secure are these satellite connections? 

Some have posted that Axoltol has a great platform and is very user friendly. What type of macro system do they use or a better term "word expander?" Is it spf file compatible?  

I have 15 years of experience at home transcribing for family practice and currently work part-time at home as an IC.  I would like to keep the account I have but perhaps add another to bump up my hours a bit.  Almost every job I see posted requires acute care experience.  Does anyone have input as to whether it is possible to obtain work without the acute care experience?  I love the work I have done.  Yes, it is probably easier than ESL or acute care but it does require attention to detail and accuracy just like everything else. 

Please advise what someone in my position should do.  I am sure these jobs do not appreciate people posting without the experience listed so I have not done so. 

My current work is local and is on tapes but I am willing to learn a new system or possibly obtain different equipment.  Any input will be appreciated!  Thanks in advance.

I have noticed on most job requirements they say no dial up or satellite internet.  High speed isn't available in my area and my only option is satellite for high speed.  Anyone know why lots of companies don't want satellite?  I thought it was a good thing?

I have worked with a guy here and there.  It amazes me that they are able to make more.  In one position, there was a guy in a position to distribute work who funneled the canned op reports (vasectomies primarily) to one guy on my account.  Another is one I am working with now who somehow convinced those hiring him that he required a certain amount of money to raise a family.  And he gets it.  Seems to me that this is favortism.  The "it's a man's world" frame of mind.

Has anyone else experienced this? 

paid for products because they're buggy and have horrible customer support!  I bought Express Dictate for my doctors and Express Delegate and I have had nothing but one problem after another.  Forget calling, that's not an option.  I have emailed until I'm blue in the face and the "support" I get are canned responses and they do not address the problems I'm having.  They have a forum you can post on, but no one ever posts responses. My client has been extremely patient, actually too patient, and now I'm looking for another alternative.  I can't tell you how many sleepless nights I've had over the past almost 4 weeks.  Thanks for letting me vent...sigh....

I am trying to locate a 9-pin port to install on my pc to use the 9-pin footpedal but I have called Circuit City's 800 number and nobody could help me... I had no luck at Best Buy online either. 

I have heard mixed reviews on the usb-9 pin adapter.  Do some work and some don't?  I would rather go this route if it does work.  Please let me know of any information you have on this, like what works and what doesn't as well as where to buy.

Thanks so much!!!

Is ExSpeech the VR software that has no footpedal and everything is done using specific keys on the keyboard?

Thanks

I really know nothing about these sort of things and would like a second opinion, so thank you for your patience in answering these questions for me!!

I looked at Sam's and basically saw nothing that was decent in memory and still high prices. I've been looking at Dell's website and saw they have a new line out for businesses. There are 3 here I am looking at. Each looks the same for memory. I really do not see what the difference is on each one or if one would be better than the other for my needs. Could someone please take a look at these 3 and give me their opinion.

For the money and with the amount of memory being offered, it seems that Dell is the way I need to go.

I appreciate the help! :o)

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