November 6 2014

The Color Codes For Case CATalyst’s Brief It Pane

I Love Steno Logo (Cropped)The entries in the Brief It pane in Case CATalyst are colored in various colors. Here are the explanations for what the colors represent:

1) Entries that are reminders of briefs with shorter strokes that are already saved in your dictionary are colored in shades of GREEN.

2) Entries of personal briefs that are held in an ASCII text file in your system files case in a file called briefs appears in shades of ORANGE.

3) Entries that are Case CATalyst created suggestions for a brief appear in shades of YELLOW.

4) Once you write a brief that is listed in the Brief It pane, that particular entry turns to GRAY.

NOTE: The more a brief in the Brief It pane is suggested and not used, the darker the shade of the color of the entry will be.

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August 4 2014

Case CATalyst: How To Create A Customized Reminder

Case CATalyst offers a feature that allows the user to create a customized reminder that will appear before the user logs off.

PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS- MANAGE JOBS

-With Case CATalyst, you can create a customized reminder that will display every time Case CATalyst is closed.

How To Create A Customized Reminder: (1) In the Manage Jobs screen, click on Tools in the Menu Bar. (2) Click Options. (3) Click Manage Custom Reminders. (4) In the Custom Reminder Messages Dialog Box, click to check the option Show ‘Closing Edit’ Message. (5) In the Reminder space, write the title of the reminder you want to create. (6) In the Reminder Desc box, write what you want the reminder to be word-for-word. (7) You can click on the Test button to see a preview of the reminder. Click on Thanks For The Reminder to close the preview box. (8) Click Okay to save the reminder.

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July 7 2014

Case CATalyst: Want To Boost Your Editing Time? Use Hotspots

Hotspots- A feature that allows you to view all of your untranslates, conflicts, blank fields, and oops format symbols at the same time without having to scan through your transcript.

How To Open Your Hotspots: (1) Click View on the Menu Bar. (2) Click Panes. (3) Click Hotspots. The Hotspots Dialog Pane will appear on the right side. Your Hotspots will be organized by page and line number. You will also see the type of Hotspot and the text associated with it.

If you double-click on one of the Hotspot entries, your cursor will appear at the location of that hotspot in the transcript. NOTE: The audio will also play when you double-click the entry. (You can turn this audio feature off if you’d like to).

You can also use filter and search options in the Hotspots Dialog Pane.

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June 20 2014

What Is Cat Scratch? (For Case CATalyst Users)

The cat scratch function in case catalyst is akin to being able to place a neat Post-It list onto your screen while working on a transcript.

Cat scratch allows you to perform the following actions: Keep a suggested brief from Brief It on the screen to be able to easily reference it throughout a job, make a list of words and phrases in a separate pane on your screen, and make a list of the job’s most frequently used dictionary entries.

Below is a video showing the many functions of cat scratch:

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July 27 2013

Video: Case CAT Edit Commands


Here’s a video showing some of the edit features of Case CAT.

This video shows how to keep names that begin with the title of Mr., Dr., etc., together with the person’s actual name on the same line of a transcript. The sticky space feature is explained.

The video also shows how to create a new paragraph. In my dictionary, I personally have PRAF/PRAF defined as a new paragraph, and PAR/PAR defined as a new line. There is also a demonstration of how to all cap a phrase, or to uncap a phrase (highlight it, then press Ctrl + F5).

[NOTE: During the video, the reveal codes is on (Ctrl + Shift + R).]

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