Keith Vincent, CSR
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Over 200 short video lessons
.6 NCRA Continuing Education Units
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    This “Overview” expands on the material presented in the Total Eclipse Visualizers.  You do not have to have Eclipse loaded on your computer to use the “Overview.”  Plus, you can get .6 NCRA continuing education units while you’re learning to be more productive with Total Eclipse.
 

How the Video Player Works
Efficient Editing Tutorial Intro
What’s New in Total Eclipse

1. Display & Command Options
     General Display Settings for MS Windows
    Dialogue Customization:  Zoom/Resize
    Dialogue Customization:  Less/More, Anchor
    Dialogue Customization:  Transparency
    Dialogue Customization:  Font
    Toolbars:  On/Off
    Toolbars:  Docked/Undocked
    Toolbar Customization
    Mouse vs. Key Commands
    Hyperkeys
    Keyboard Customization
    Editing Font vs. WYWIWYG
    View/Hide Print Commands
    Color Selections
    Notebar Display and Font
    Notebar Options:  Phonetics, Timecodes
    Notebar Options:  Steno Width, Dictionary Review
    Multi-Document Display:  Open All Dictionaries
    Organizing Windows:  Cascade, Tile, New Window
    Spliting a Window into 2 Panes   
2.  Document & User Setup
    The Document Setup Wizard
    Paragraph Setup via the Document Wizard
    Paragraph Adjustments via the Document Wizard
    Paragraph Adjustments via the Document Ruler
    Paragraph Labels:  From Q to Q.
    "Fixed" Paragraphs
    Paragraph Behavior
    Footers:  Creation
    Footers:  Adjustments
    Timecodes & Text Box Setup
    Text Box Adjustments
    Current Document vs. Master Format
    Using a Block Files Folder
    Customizing your Phonetics Table
    The Metadictionary
    Loading and Switching Settings
    Save Settings vs. Create New User Format
    How to Undo Settings Changes (if not yet saved)
    How to Delete a User Format
3. Translation, Realtime, Synchronized Audio
    Read Notes
    Append or Extract Notes
    Translation Notes:  General Options
    Translation:  Add Initial and/or Final Block File
    Apply Phonetics & Dragged/Dropped Key Rescue
    Set up Writer. Follow Realtime Translation
    Pending Transplation Display, Auto-Split Window
    Adding a Serial Port
    Finding a Com Port (Using Device Manager)
    Alt T to Start Realtime Translation
    Instant Realtime
    Realtime Output
    Realtime Output Buffer
    Wireless Realtime Connections
    Steno Link Overview
    Steno Link Configuration
    Bridge
    TeleView
    Sound Recorder Test
    Using Earphones for Microphone Monitoring
    Audio Playback
    Playback Options:  Fast, Slow, Squelch
    Audio Auto-Stop/Play while Globaling/Typing
    Audio Compression:  Sound Quality and File Size
    Adjusting Synchronization, Using a Voice Recorder
4.  General Editing
    Insert/Overtype
    Typeover Tracking
    Add Lines and Paragraphs
    Oops and Delete
    Find Text, Steno, Paragraphs, Print Commands
    Using Find/Replace; Repeating Searches
    Scans & Multi-Scan
    Adding Speakers:  The Speaker Table
    Dictionary Entries for Speaker Identification
    Changing Paragraphs to Speaker Identifiers
    Correcting Speaker Names
    Pre-Translation Speaker Setup
    By-Lines
    Insert Missing By-Lines
    Dashes & Hyphens
    Mark Stitch Surround
    Mark, Copy, Cut, Paste, Read, Write, Separate
    Bold, Italics, Underlined
    Accents & Special Characters
    Page Breaks and Conditional Page Breaks
    Bookmarks and Comment Lines
    Spellcheck
    List Errors
    WATCH Words
    Graphic Links

• 5. Mostly Globaling
      Basic Globals:  Adding/Subracting Strokes
      Global Magic (Global at a Glance)
      The "Special Entries" List and Globaling Shortcuts
      Composite Entries to Unscramble Stacked Steno
      Spelling, Detect Conflicts, Default Dictionaries
      Suggest Dictionary Entries:  Misstrokes
      Suggest Entries:  Normalize Strokes
      Suggest Entries:  Integral Prefixes or Suffixes
      Text Globals
      Undo Global
      Where are Text Globals Stored?
      Conflicts
      Conflicts Tips
      Slop Strokes
      Prefixes and Suffixes
      The "Add Prefix/Suffix" Dialogue
      Autoincludes
      Splitting or Merging Files
      Quoted Testimony
      Speedkeys to Change Q&A to Quoted Q&A
  6. Head-Turners
      Autoreplacements: Type Fast, Prevent Errors
      Creating Autoreplacements while Globaling
      Macros
      Realtime Editing from the Steno Keyboard
      “Google Search” Macro
      Number Conversion:  Overview
      Number Conversion:  User Settings
      Form Fields (Fill-in-the-Blank Process):  Overview
      Form Fields:  Adding a Blank
      Automatic Indexing:  Overview
      Automatic Indexing:  Adding an Index Item
      - Sample Format Files (with 17 Visualizers)
   7.  Dictionaries
      Selecting Dictionaries and Master Job Dictionaries
      Changing Dictionaries during Translation
      Dictionary Display:  Columns, Fonts, Notebar
      Text-Sorted Dictionaries Find Steno Shortcuts
      Dictionary Columns:  Size, Order, Date/Time
      Dictionary Additions and Spellchecking
      Dictionary Editing Windows; Undo & Redo
      Dictionary Properties Dialogue, Comments
      Basic Dictionary Searches
      Dictionary Searches:  Go to Steno
      Contains, Starts with, Ends with, Exact Match
      Steno Keys vs. Steno Strokes
      Dictionary Searches:  Find and Replace
      Custom Search Builder, "Regular Expressions"
      Selecting Dictionary Entries to Copy or Move
      Moving Dictionary Entries
      Unmerge Dictionaries
      Exporting Dictionaries/Wordlists
      Scopist's Dictionaries
      Merging Entries from a Scopist's Dictionary
      Dictionary Statistics
      Dictionary Printing
  8. Printing and PDF & ASCII Files
      Printing a Draft or a Final Copy
      Timestamps
      Edit Timecodes
      4-per-page Printouts
      A Settings File for Multipage Printing    
      Word Indexe
      Stop Printing
      ASCII Files
      ASCII Styles
      HTML Index
      PDF Files
  9. File Management
      The Eclipse File Manager
      Windows Explorer
      File Search
      Deleting/Recovering Files
      Copying or Moving Files
      E-Mail
      Burn to CD
      Zip or Unzip
      Backup and Restore
      SET Files
      BAK Files
      Converting Files to/from Other Systems
      Sending Large Files
      Digital Signatures:  Setup
      Digital Signatures:  Verification
  Tutorials & CEU Credits
  For Teachers:  The Lesson Player
  For Students:  The Lesson Player
  Support & Updates
  The Total Eclipse Help System
  AccuCap:  Total Eclipse Captioning
  The Convenience Key
  Xtra:  Définir ou Corriger (A French Visualizer)  

Obtaining Continuing Education Credits
     Test 1:  Multiple Choice - 25 Questions
     Test 2:  True or False - 50 Questions
Note:  Two tests are offered.  Take whichever one you prefer. You can even take both tests, but double credit is not available.

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