Edit Commands

Listed below are Alt commands in alphabetically order. Also listed are the corresponding Ctrl commands and function key assignments Note that your function keys may be programmed differently.) It is highly recommended that you edit into a test transcript and try each of these commands.

1. Ctl+KT - copy title page. If you want to copy a title page from another transcript, edit into the second transcript, place the cursor at the beginning of the transcript and press Ctrl+KT. You will then be asked for the name of the .WRK file you want to copy the title page from. Then you will be asked if you want to copy the title page, title page plus index/exhibit pages or title page plus index/exhibit pages plus sworn statement. This command works best if you use the .ti on/off and .ex on/off dot commands to surround the title and exhibit/index pages. The command will still work if you don't use these dot commands, but you may get more text copied than you want, but you can then delete the excess text.

2. Alt+1, Alt+2, etc - you can define up to ten attorneys or other speakers (THE COURT, THE WITNESS) using an Alt+number. When you press Alt+ number and if you have not defined a speaker for that number, you will be prompted for the speaker name. Then place the cursor where you need the speaker and press the Alt+number. The Edit program will automatically format the transcript with the speaker name (colloquy). If you place the cursor on or before the Q of a question, the speaker name will be formatted as a BY Line. If you highlight an untranslate or mis-translate, the speaker name will appear in the define box preceded by an A: (i.e. A:THE SPEAKER) and you can then global the speaker name. Note that if you use A:LEFT1, A:RIGHT1, etc., when you define the attorney names, Alt+1 will automatically be assigned the attorney name for A:LEFT1, Alt+2 will be A:LEFT2, Alt+3 will be A:RIGHT1 and Alt+4 will be A:RIGHT2.
3. Alt+Hyphen (Alt+-) - this command will hyphenate a word. Place the cursor at the beginning of a word and press Alt+-. A hyphen will be placed at the end of the current word. If you highlight a phrase (mark word or F5) and press Alt+- All of the words, except the last word, will be hyphenated (i.e. son in law becomes son-in-law) and the phrase will be placed in the define box so it can be globaled and/or placed in a dictionary.

4. Alt+= - this command will place dashes ( -- ) at the end of the current word. The format of the dashes is taken from your information file under the Edit Options tab.

5. Alt+A (Ctrl+QW or F11) with the cursor placed anywhere on the first line of an answer (A.), this command will change the answer symbol to a colloquy speaker (i.e. THE WITNESS). If the cursor is placed on the first line of colloquy, the colloquy speaker will be changed to an answer symbol. ). If the cursor is placed on the first line of a question, the question symbol (Q.) will be changed to an answer symbol (A.). See Alt+Q for changing a question to colloquy.

6. Alt+B (Ctrl+QS) - this command will place the cursor at the beginning of the line.

7. Alt+C (Ctrl+OU or Shift+F6) - with the cursor at the beginning of a word, this command will cap or uncap that word. If you highlight a phrase and press Alt+C, all of the words of the phrase, except prepositions, will be capped (or uncapped) and placed in the define box for globaling and/or adding to a dictionary. For example, "city of bend police department" becomes "City of Bend Police Department".

8. Alt+D (Ctrl+ or Shift+F2) - this command will interrupt a question, answer or colloquy. With the cursor anywhere in a paragraph, after pressing Alt+D, dashes will replace the punctuation at the end of the paragraph and dashes will be placed at the beginning of the next question, answer or colloquy.

9. Alt+E (Ctrl+QY or Ctrl+F9)) - this command will erase all of the text from the cursor position to the end of the line and will reformat the remainder of the paragraph accordingly.

10. Alt+F (Crl+QF or Shift+F1) - this command will allow you search for text. Press Ctrl+L (or Alt+F1) to repeat the last find and replace.

11. Alt+G (Ctrl+QP or Alt+F2) - this command will ask you for a page and line number and then take you there.

12. Alt+H (Home key or F12) - this is the same as the Home key and will take you to the next untranslate or conflict.

13. Alt+I (Ctrl+KR or Ctrl+F7) - this command will allow you to insert a file, such as an include file, text file or .WRK file.

14. Alt+J (Ctrl+OO or Shift+F8) this command will join two paragraphs. With the cursor anywhere in the first paragraph, press Alt+J. If the following paragraph starts with a question or answer symbol or colloquy speaker, the question, answer or colloquy will be removed and the rest of the paragraph will be appended to the current paragraph.

15. Alt+K (Ctrl+OK or Alt+F5) - this command will allow you to program a function key (shifted and unshifted F1 through F10) to do a specific function or functions. For example, let's assume a medical term kept coming up during testimony and you wrote it several different ways and it is not possible to global it, or you need to global various steno strokes to the same word. You can program a function key so that when you come to the text of the medical term you would mark it and then press the function key so that in one keystroke you delete the bad text and replace it with the correct medical term. To do this, press Alt+K and then pick a function key (F1 is used for help and you may want to use it). Then type in ^Tword (^T is Ctrl+T which is the word delete command followed by the word you wish to insert followed by a space). The ^T deletes all of the marked text and then the word and space is inserted. Note that when you save out, the program key will revert back to the original function.

16. Alt+L - this command will change the punctuation at the end of the previous paragraph. See the Alt+Y command to change the punctuation at the end of the current paragraph.

17. Alt+M (Ctrl+KB or F5) - this command will mark (highlight) a word. You can use this command several times to mark several words.

18. Alt+N (Ctrl+ON or Ctrl+F4) - this command will format highlighted text to a number such as spelled out, telephone number, social security number etc.

19. Alt+O (Ctrl+KV or Shift+F12) - this command will paste text from the clipboard to the cursor position.

20. Alt+P (Ctrl+OP or F8) - this command will insert a paragraph.