Do you use Alt A????

[Janiece Young]

 

Do you use Alt A when Replacing, J defining, E defining or D defining?

This is for when you are editing.

You highlight your text. Say, for instance, you have "green light company" come up in your text and it's lower case. You want it to be capped. You don't want to type it again.

You highlight/mark "green light company" and then you hit control J to job define. The next step is you hit Alt A. That brings the text "green light company" into the Job define box. Then to get each letter capped you simply hit Alt A. If you would want all the letters capped, GREEN LIGHT COMPANY, you would hit Alt A again. If you decide you want them lower case, hit Alt A again. This saves a lot of typing.

This can be done when Replacing, J defining, E defining or D defining.

[Christina Smith]

Another trick I like is used to insert dashes.

 

Let's use "hit and run accident" as an example.

Open the J-define window and F6 to pull in the phrase or letters you need to hyphenate, in this case, "hit and run."

Once "hit and run" is in the New Text window, use Alt+-, and it will insert the hyphen in the empty spaces between the words.

 

(And Janiece, this is Christi (the other Christi) from the Court Reporters Site, the one you helped set up the quick-keys and macros. I don't know why I registered as Christina here. I need to fix that. LOL)