Hi, Denise.

Click the Translator menu and select Commands.  This will open the Command window.  Scroll down until you see the command you're looking for, then double-click it.  If your Commands file is intact, it should tell you what the stroke was.

You're welcome, Denise!

I had to show one of my classmates how to set DC up to properly do numbers, so I wrote this article sometime back.  That's how I got to be so familiar with the Commands application!

Hi, Denise.

If you just double-click the Command Editor directly from Windows, it brings up a window pointing to the digitalCAT folder ... and specifically to the Realtime Commands file ... so you'd want to back that one up as well.

Hey, quick question, or at least I'm hoping this wil be quick: I wanted to differentiate in my dictionary between gait and gate.  There are entries for these words but I wanted to change them. When I tried to do so, I received the following error message:

 "The changes you made to the table were not successful because they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key, or relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain duplicate data, remove the index, or redefine the index to permit duplicate entries and try again."

I'm not yet savvy with this software, I'm not sure that I know what that means, but I believe it's saying that changing gate will somehow affect other words with gate in it, like investigate, instigate, etc. Am I at least in the ballpark with my assumption? Any help getting around this error message would be appreciated.

Hi, Curtis.

What that error messages is telling you is that the change you want to make already exists in the dictionary.

The best way to avoid this is to open the dictionary with the Dictionary Maintenance program (Start --> Programs -->  DigitalCAT --> Dictionary Maintenance) and, with the desired dictionary open, type an S.

That will bring up the steno search window.  Type the steno of the outline you're planning on entering into the dictionary and if anything comes up, that means it's in use.

Hope that makes sense ....

Hi, stupid question here.  I am transferring my digital cat files onto another computer.  How do I transfer everything, includes, cover pages, etc.?

I got the dictionary transferred, but that's it.  I'm going back to work supposedly for the second time in a year.  This time I got a call from someone who isn't going to expect me to drive 190 miles round trip for FREE!

Thanks, everyone!

of course, everything is on a flashdrive.

Hi, Denise.

I've never done it, but I guess I would copy the entire digitalCAT folder to the flash drive, install digitalCAT on the new computer, locate the digitalCAT folder on that computer, right-click it and delete it, then locate the digitalCAT folder on your hard drive and drag it into place.

Yes, that's the long way around, but if you do it this way and it doesn't like your "new" digitalCAT folder, you can always put the old one back and drag your Dictionaries folder, the Transcript folder, your Commands file, etc. over.

One of those should do the trick, and hopefully it will be the first one!

So.  What's the story with the 190 mile drive ...?

Thanks, Glen, you whiz!  I'll try it when I get back from the gym.  I got everything up and running, just need to transfer all those other files.  I really have lost about 30 WPM on my speed.  Now I'm worried.  Oh, this goof ball wanted me to drive for free to a city that's 190 miles RT.  So that put all my hopes of working again on the back burner because I don't work for free!

Then I get a call from a lady who has a good reputation and so I'm going to sit out with her once I'm confident that I'm ready to work again because she said she could use me locally and wouldn't expect me to drive for free.   I guess that guy giving out free travel at reporters' expenses has a bad reputation.

Thanks again, Glen!  You're awesome!

P.S.  Right before I checked the site here, I put my flashdrive in and then dragged the command editor file over to transcript editor and it didn't work.   I'm afraid to delete anything.  

Wow, some people, huh?

Good that you've found someone to sit out with; don't forget to ready the article on internship! on Cheap and Sleazy!

Not sure what's going on with the Commands file; that really should have worked!

Denise, while looking around in digitalCAT's Transcript Editor, I found Tools --> Export/Import Settings!  This will export *everything* from your old settings!

Hi, Glen, I forget how to sync up the transcript (while editing and gets off track for some reason) with the steno notes to match them back up again.

Also, I used to be able to just plug in the audio device, but now for some reason, I have to go into advanced audio and tell it to use the USB device every time.  Any reasons why this is happening?

Also -- sorry, I know I'm being a PITA, but how do I transfer my quick types over? Is it possible?  I'm not certain on export/import setting doing that.  I got everything transferred over to the other computer but did it via explorer.  Thanks!

I have a command while writing in realtime to make time.  That one works.  I know I have a command for make date.  I'm dumbfounded as to where to look for these commands.  They're not in my realtime commands.  I haven't worked in four years and I was on this software for only 1 1/2 years.  Any help please?  I'm not working yet so I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars for tech support.  Thanks!

Don't quote me because I am away from the computer that has the software, but I am thinking *maybe* you will find it under Keyboard or Keyboard / Macros somewhere?

Go to your dictionary and click to add an entry.  When you do, you'll see a box below that says "Commands."  Scroll down the list to find the entry that says Make Dollars.  Click on that, then input the stroke you want to use to make something in dollars.

Thanks, I'll check it out.  Would you be so kind as to try to answer a couple of questions If you scroll down, it's about my notes and my transcript getting out of whack and how to fix it.  Thanks!

Hi, Denise.

I'm sorry I missed your question! Unfortunately, I've only run into this (the misaligned notes thing) when I'm practicing.  If I read your question correctly, you're talking about how when you delete something, then click a word to check the steno,  the word you clicked on and the word shown in the notes don't match, correct?

If that's the case (and since I'm only practicing), I just create a new file, save it with the same name, replace it, and start fresh ... but that solution isn't what you need, I'm sure.

Denise,

I've honestly never had that problem happen to me, but could it fixed by using the Tools>Restore raw steo track prompts?

Thanks everyone!

Can someone help me with sharing a .dm file/audio file?  I don't know how to send the file to my scopist so she can use the audiosync. Thank you!

Hi all,

Getting back into it. 

Can someone tell me if there is a way to change the foreground/background colors to highlight the word the cursor is sitting on when you are scrolling through a documents you're editing? 

I haven't been on here for a while, but was wondering if anyone in Digital Cat could use an experienced scopist? I need to pick up some hours and would love to make life easier for you. My email wasn't correct on here, so I'm not sure if anyone has tried to message me in the last year or so. I can provide references, so that would be better than taking my word, right? Thanks and have a blessed week!

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Can someone please tell me how to put the steno outline back in my dictionary?  I decided to make BUR a brief for about your, then I changed my mind and so I went back and left it blank for English translation and now when I'm writing nothing is coming up for BUR, no steno or anything.  I just got my machine out after almost ten years of vacation.  I miss my machine!!  Thanks

Hi, Denise.  

You should be able to do that from the Dictionary Maintenance program ... and to get there, I believe it's at C:/Programs/Stenovations/digitalCAT/DictMaint.exe

When you have that one open, click the File menu and select Open, and you should be able to see your dictionary in the file navigation window ... so select it.

Next, hit the S key on your computer's keyboard. That should open a search window, into which you should type that PB-UR outline, and then hit Enter.

That should bring up the outline you're looking for. Once you see it, it should be selected, but if it's not, click it, and then hit the E key on your keyboard, and from there, you should be able to add the outline you want.

Hope that helps!

--gdw

Glen, Your answer is at least ten years out of date.   Please refrain!  She is going to have all sorts of problems following the path you just sent her down.  

Denise, Please email me at greta@stenovations.com or support@stenovations.com for a quick and accurate answer.  

Is anyone else still waiting to see that "quick and accurate answer" ...?

In this case, Denise should contact support@stenovations.com.  Sometimes there are issues that I am not able to address and support needs to be involved.  

Perhaps, but that's not what you posted last month.

So you're saying you don't have a "quick and accurate answer" at the ready, even after telling everybody that what I suggested was "ten years out of date" and how she'd have "all sorts of problems" following what I posted?

Glen, there are other issues at play that you don't know about.  Calling support is always the best plan.  :)

One of my CART providing friends called Support, when she got that dreaded message that her dictionary was corrupt.

The support tech -- the very same guy that blocked me from all of the Stenovations groups on Facebook, by the way -- took over her computer ... and could not fix the problem.

She did the job as best she could being a dictionary down, and promised her client a cleaned up copy later.

Then she got on Facebook and wrote about what happened, so I asked her if she would send me her corrupt dictionary, which she did.

I went about it in a rather round-about way, but I was able to fix her dictionary for her ... thanks to an odd error message I remembered seeing a few years ago.

After I fixed her dictionary the first time I then remembered a couple of menu items in the Dictionary Maintenance program, under the Tools menu -- namely the "Compact and Repair" menu item.

I selected that, pointed it to the damaged dictionary, and within minutes, it was fixed.

Not bad for a guy who doesn't work in tech support, huh?