Tutorials

Keith Vincent, CSR
728 Tirrell Street
Houston, Texas 77019
Tel. 1-713-523-6345

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A Total Eclipse Overview
    
Revised and Expanded for both Versions 3 and 4

Price: $69.95

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.
 

Please note:
All videos run from CD-ROM disks and can be played on your computer even while Eclipse is being used.

Tutorial Outline:

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 availabl
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