Word Lists
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Word Listsby kassknits - 12:05AM, Aug 16, 2007 |
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Hi everyone,I’ve used NoteBook for about a year and love it. Although like others have posted, I’m sure I’m not using to it’s full potential. Which brings me to why I’m here. I need help with using NoteBook for a specific purpose. I know it can be done, I’m just not sure how to do it and my attempts are feable, at best.I need NoteBook to organize, sort, and find medical terms I enter. I’m studying to be a medical transcriptionist where I need to know how to spell medical terms, abbreviations, drugs, prefixes, suffixes, plurals, tenses, etc. All those different categories can be dividers, but when it comes to the actual page and cells, I’m lost on how to make a list and sort it. Right now, I’m creating my lists in Excel but that seems so, well un-Mac like (if that’s a phrase.). I’ve got a great program in NoteBook and would love to use it for what I need.Ideas? Tips? Something? Oh, everytime I use the Help file in NoteBook it crashes on me so whatever I haven’t discovered on my own, I’m in the dark about, which probably explains why I can’t figure out how to make a personalized medical dictionary.TIA for your ideas. I appreciate you taking the time to read and/or answer my post. |
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Hi Kassandra, I'm not sure if I understood exactly what you want. But: You can sort in different ways cells on a specific page. Under View -> Auto-sort you get a lot of possiblities. Or you can open the inspector and choose Action -> Sort and there specify your sorting options. Other solution: Maybe you want to use a specific numbering system for your list? I have no solution for your Helpfile, only the usual ones: repair permissions, reinstall the helpfile and/or the application. I just tried and NoteBooks Help is working, as well as the QuickStart Guide and the link to the Online Tutorial Videos. (NoteBook 2.1 (v256)) Ursula
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Hi Kassandra, I use NoteBook all the time to make lists for my students. Since it is a language class, I put the opposite language underneath the word as a child of the word I would like them to learn. For sorting, go to Tools-->Inspector. In the Inspector, choose the gear icon at the top, then choose the sort tab. You can even take your lists from Excel and paste them into NB directly: Copy the lists in Excel, switch over to a page in NB, choose the menu item Edit-->Paste-->Paste Text as an Outline. While the words are still selected, choose the menu item Format-->Remove Custom Formatting (this will remove the table lines brought over from Excel). Hope this helps, Rich
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Thank you both very, very much. I got NB to do exactly, perhaps better, than what I wanted.  Here's what I failed to do - use Outline pages. I've never used those before since all my work in NB is actual writing and not outlining. I forgot those were there and it took awhile for me to get the hang of it. But once I did, it put that Excel file to shame. I read other posts about the Contents Card, and although I like it, I need the real estate more. So I colored the Contents tab bright yellow and the Index tab hot pink. One click and I'm right where I need to be. The help file worked, as long as I didn't use the search feature. I finally figured out how to use keywords and that really put my project into super organization. Wow I can finally relax now that I have a system in place. I'm glad I asked for help. Thank you again so very, very much.
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Just bumping this up in hopes someone may be able to help me :) If anyone (kassknits? you there?) could show me an example of NoteBook being used for medical transcription word lists, I would really appreciate it! I’m sort of grappling with figuring out the word list thing AND the software :) TIA!
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Ursula
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01:21AM, Aug 16, 2007