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What Help and Training Tools come with Total Eclipse?

     Press F1 to open an extensive Built-in Help System.
         Highlight any menu item and press F1 for Help.
     Over 200 short Visualizer movies
         integrated with the Help System and the Editing Tutorial
     Interactive Efficient Editing Tutorial (with easy links to Visualizers)
         Learn how to use Hyperkeys for speedy editing.
     A comprehensive User’s Manual in both hard-copy and electronic versions
             (Click here for a sneak peak at the manual.)
     Your Training Certificate is good
           for headquarters training, personal training, seminars,
           or purchase of e-Power Video Tutorials.
     24/7/365 Technical Support via Advantage Software’s toll-free number
     Internet Support and CR-Net
     Lesson Player for steno teachers and students

A Glance at the Total Eclipse User’s Manual

List of Visualizers built into Total Eclipse

How the Video Player Works
Efficient Editing Tutorial Intro
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
   Vox Audio Setup
   Vox Train (Create/Refine Voice Model)
   Vox New (Train New Word)
3. Translation, Realtime, Synchronized Audio
   Read Notes
   Append or Extract Notes
   Translation Notes: General Options
   Translation: Add Initial and/or Final Block File
   Translation Magic:
       Phonetics & Dragged/Dropped Keys
   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

What about support and updates?

     One year of support and updates is provided with the purchase of Total Eclipse.  Support is provided on a 24/7/365 basis, and there’s no limit to the number of times you can call our toll-free telephone number. Frequent updates are provided as part of support.  After the first year, support/update policy renewals cost $595 annually.  Again, this covers support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, as well as all updates, even total rewrites of the program.

How often is Eclipse updated?

   The general release version of Eclipse is updated about once or twice a year.
     Eclipse always goes beyond the state of the art.  Thus, the development version of Eclipse is updated about once a week.
     Eclipse users know that their good ideas for improving the program are taken seriously, so their thinking caps are always on. Once new features have enjoyed a time of use and acceptance in the development version, these features are folded into the general release.

Are there improvements to Eclipse that are NOT covered by the support/update program?

     No.  Eclipse has been totally rewritten several times, in part as a reflection of the ongoing user-developer collaboration.  Total Eclipse^M is the 15th version of the program, and it certainly won’t be the last. As the program evolves, we maintain the same key commands wherever possible to make it easy for you to grow with us.  Just keep your support/update policy in effect, and you’re covered. So you can be confident your software will remain state of the art.

See it in Action