Do you ever find yourself squinting at parts of your CATalyst screen, and wondering if you need glasses, or a better prescription for your current glasses or contacts? The problem may not be your eyes – it could be the settings on your screen are just too small! If the cursor is hard to […]
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It’s Court Reporting and Captioning Week and Stenograph is celebrating along with every reporter, CART provider, captioner, and everyone who works with them to provide an accurate record for all and access for the deaf and hearing-impaired community. Like you, we are grateful for this opportunity to share what we love about these professions. There’s […]
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There are times when proceedings are taken by two or more reporters, either in turns or in more than one session, that need to be combined into a single document. Even when all the reporters use the latest version of Case CATalyst, it can be a bit tricky to combine more than one take into […]
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The difference between properly written steno strokes for standard, everyday conversational words and steno for certain curse words, slurs/insults, and/or anatomical descriptions that may be inappropriate outside of medical testimony can be a single letter. For example, accidentally drop an initial P from the steno for submit and you get a four-letter word. Invert the […]
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The Manage Jobs feature is an incredibly useful feature in CATalyst. It’s the place from which you access, backup, restore and delete all of your CATalyst files: your cases, transcripts, dictionaries, layouts, include files… everything you work on and use in CATalyst. But did you know you can use it for storing and organizing files […]
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Many reporters and scopists ignore the toolbar most of the time because they are accustomed to using keyboard commands to do the vast majority of tasks in Edit. Most of the time this makes good sense; after all, why move your hand over to the mouse and then point and click on a toolbar button […]
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If your holidays favored you with the gift of a new computer you may be bursting with excitement and eager to get started, just as soon as you get that last job on your “old” system done. However, you can’t just dive into a relationship with new hardware; you need to know whether the system […]
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’Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, Except for the reporter or scopist desperately editing pages to try to get them out the door… That’s not a description of a happy holiday! The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. If you’re eager […]
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Remember the last time you misplaced something important? For example, I keep my keys in a bowl by my front door. If I forget to put the keys in the bowl as soon as I walk in the door, I’m pretty much guaranteed to put a few thousand steps on my Fitbit searching for them. […]
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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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