Help & Visualizers

Keith Vincent, CSR
1910 Ottawa Lane
Houston, Texas 77043
Tel. 1-713-523-6345

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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.
     More than 250 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

Total Eclipse includes a very extensively illustrated user’s manual, in both hard-copy and electronic versions.  Even so, we hear people say, “I don’t really enjoy reading manuals.  I’m more of a visual person.  Show me, and I’ll understand.”

Good news! 250 short movies are built into Total Eclipse. There’s no extra charge for these. You don’t have to download them or have an internet connection to view them. They’re called Visualizers, and they let you see and hear how to use your software.  Each Visualizer lasts only a couple of minutes but is packed with information.

The Visualizers are based on the e-Power Video Tutorial “A Total Eclipse Overview.” So after you’ve watched the Visualizers, you can purchase the “Overview” tutorial and take a short test in order to earn .6 NCRA continuing education units.

Here’s a list of the Visualizers that are currently built into Total Eclipse.  Each year we update them and add additional topics to help you take full advantage of Total Eclipse.

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
- Auto-Magic and AutoBrief
   The Info Bar
   Auto-Magic Overview
   Auto-Magic:  Numbered Choices
   Auto-Magic:  Numbers, HotKeys, Pop-Ups, and Fonts
   Auto-Magic in a Notes File
   Auto-Magic in a Dictionary
   Auto-Magic:  Beginning/End of Paragraph
   Auto-Magic:  Untranslates and Globaling
   Auto-Magic:  Conflicts and Typeovers
   Auto-Magic:  Spellings
   Auto-Magic:  Marked Blocks of Text
   Auto-Magic:  Punctuation
   Auto-Magic:  Numbers
   Auto-Magic:  Form Fields
   Auto-Brief during Realtime Translation
   Auto-Brief Setup Dialogue
   Auto-Brief Display
   Auto-Brief:  Requesting/Rejecting Suggestions
   Auto-Brief Steno Theory
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
   Remote Scoping:  Steno Link
   Remote Scoping:  Steno Link Configuration
   Remote Scoping:  Steno Link vs. Division Intervals
   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
   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
   Redacted Text
   Vox: Apply Corrections
6. Head-Turners
   Autoreplacements: Type Fast, Prevent Errors
   Creating Autoreplacements while Globaling
   Macros
   Realtime Editing from the Steno Keyboard
   “Filler” Macros (Retroactive Realtime Transcription)
   Passport Stenowriter:  Extra Keys for Realtime Editing
   “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
   Build Dictionary
   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
   Vox New (Voice Theory Two-Step)
   Creating and Installing a Passport Stenowriter Dictionary
8. Proofreading, Printing and PDF & ASCII Files
   Spellcheck
   List Errors
   WATCH Words
   Proofreading with a Kindle e-Book Reader
   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
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.0
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.1
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.2
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.3
What’s New in Total Eclipse 5
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)  

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 5 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.

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