Yes, exactly sm

A few weeks ago I was asked to work in the office of one of the clinics I do overflow work for while their Transcriptionist was on vacation. I have almost 1700 shortcuts in my AutoCorrect - she only has a few. I tried not to add too many, because it was not my computer and I did not want to put anything in which would be confusing or conflict with anything she might normally type. I probably added about 50 shortcuts during three days (I kept track of each one and gave her a list so she could delete them if she didn't want to use them). It's hard to know which is quicker - just typing things out or stopping to put in shortcuts.

My major concern is that I have arthritis in my hands so I want to cut my Keystrokes down as much as possible, especially anything I have to use the shift key for. In radiology, of course we do lots of spine reports, and I really don't understand why people don't go ahead and set their AutoCorrect to automatically capitalize vertebral levels - C1, C2, C3, etc. There are 24 vertebrae in a normal spine, not counting the sacral segments, and then there are the disc spaces - C1-2 (or C1-C2, depending on the doctor). WHY would you hit the shift key that many times????

• Suggestions for a shortcut for with.... - t
  • Can you use a plus sign for hyper and minus sign for hypo? - nfm
  • shortcuts for hyperparathyroidism and hypo - Need suggestions
    • hypar and hopar maybe - tiredMT
    • I would use "hpt" and "hopt" nm - Rad MT
      • My brain doesn't work that fast - AnnieM!AnnieM!
  • "w" for with, "wo" without, "wi" within - AnnieM!AnnieM!
    • Me too! sm - Rad MT
      • We're CLONES!! - AnnieM!AnnieM!
        • Yeppers! sm - Rad Mt
          • ooh this is fun... my method for acronyms sm - tiredMT
            • Yes, exactly sm - Rad MT
              • totally agree, I have bilateral CTS sm - tiredMT
              • OMG - AnnieM!AnnieM!
                • You're welcome! :) How about some other folks sharing tips, too? - Rad MT
                  • I'm trying to abbreviate everything in Shorthand SM - EditScripter
  • I use wt nm - M.A.
  • I use w/ nm - Becky
  • I don't have one for with, but use an autocorrect for 'wtih' and 'wiht', LOL. nm - R

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