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Medical Transcribers Start Another ActiveWords Forum

Joi, a so-called MT (Medical Transcriber) evidently heavily infected by the recent outbreak of the highly contagious ActiveWords virus, has started her own ActiveWords forum on her board Tripicheck's MT Productivity Forum. The board is targeted at medical transcribers. Besides the obvious ActiveWords, members talk about all kinds of topics like text expanders, grammar questions, speech recognition and job opportunities.

Does anyone happen to know how I can subscribe to this forum?

I think I'm going to stop counting the number of ActiveWords forums already out there! ;-)

Shorthand Experts Review ActiveWords

Among the numerous supposedly doubtful subscriptions by Russian spammers on the ActiveWords Community Forum member list I recently discovered a typical Dutchman's name of someone named Harrie. This forum member had submitted an enthousiastic post on the ActiveWords Forums:

I'm new here. Hello! I'm looking forward to learning all about ActiveWords!

Boxing Monkeys

David Hamel from Boxer Software just sent me an announcement of the release of their new clipboard text conversion tool called Text Monkey. I have been using David's advanced text editor Boxer since its DOS days. Boxer Editor for Windows is now a full-blown macro-enabled tool. On several occasions I have experienced that Hamel considers customer satisfaction a high value. Hey, he even speaks a little Dutch! Back to their latest offspring: Text Monkey.

Text Monkey is capable of just about 40 tasks, of which to my opinion the most useful and notable are that it
1. removes e-mail quoting prefixes, like >>>>>
2. converts HTML back to text by removing tags and converting symbol codes like > back to a >
3. eliminates leading, trailing, duplicate spaces
4. deletes empty lines, deletes lines containing or not containing certain text
5. indents text allowing you to specify which indentation character or string to use
6. strips out specified characters
7. replaces one text string with one other text string
8. calculates word and character occurrences
9. sorts the text by column

Text Monkey is available for download as a 10-day evaluation version. The current release is 1.0. There is a Lite version with limited capabilities that you may use for free. The professional version costs $29.99. Existing Boxer Editor users get a discount. BoxerSoftware accepts PayPal payments and provides electronic downloads as well as shipped versions.