Many reporters are unsure whether they should choose Yes or No when setting up the Suffix Drag feature. If you’re not sure; or if you’ve ever wondered whether you’ve set this feature properly, today’s blog entry should help! First, for those unfamiliar with this translate option, there are occasions when untranslated steno appears on your […]
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Reporters and scopists spend a significant portion of their lives in a seated position. You sit when you write. You sit when you edit. When you’re not working, you most frequently want to sit and relax! The problem is, too much sitting can be the source of a number of long-term problems – weight gain, […]
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In a few days, people all over the United States will be getting together with family and/or friends and reflecting on what makes them feel thankful. I have a lot for which I am thankful, and my Stenograph and greater court reporting industry family is a major reason I am thankful this year. 30 years […]
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At the end of last month, I had the pleasure of working with and training a wonderful group of reporters at STARCON 19 in Minneapolis. In addition to the five classes I taught, I worked with eight reporters in half-hour, one-on-one sessions to answer questions they needed to have answered, and countless others during breaks […]
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Coming up with simple but unique one-stroke steno outlines for speaker IDs, or AccelerWriters (macros executed during translation to edit from the writer) or even a unique fingerspelling alphabet can be difficult when you’re trying to avoid conflicts. Some reporters and captioners have even asked our developers to enhance future writers to include an “extra” […]
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Whenever a scopist runs spell check on a reporter’s job, they may choose to add spellings to a job, case or Personal wordlist. These entries can be very helpful to the reporter for both edit and translation. For example, suppose the word labelled appeared in the job, and the scopist knows you would prefer that […]
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When you include a standard page such as a title or certificate into your job, or when you combine separately scoped or proofed segments into a single job, if you are interrupted by CATalyst asking you, “Do you want to change the filled in field from THIS to THAT?” you may have wondered whether there […]
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Each time Windows Update downloads and installs an update to your operating system, the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power setting for each of your USB ports may return to the default setting: selected. While this is probably a good idea for the average Windows PC user who requires any […]
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If you were grading yourself as a Case CATalyst user, what marks would you give yourself? Getting a job out the door should get easier as time goes on. If you’re working just as hard as you always have but your translation rate hasn’t improved or the number of pages you can edit in […]
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Reporters use a variety of methods for organizing their jobs. Some like to store jobs by date; for example, a job taken on September 16, 2019 would go into a case named September, which is stored along with jobs from January, February, March, etc. in another case named 2019. Other reporters prefer to organize jobs […]
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