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Georgia Green is <<... preparing a presentation on automation for teachers
who manually proofread reams of student-transcribed medical reports. The
redlining feature of Word does an adequate job of identifying deviations
from a
master key, but an extremely useful addition would be a detailed summary of
redlining changes.>>
I'm not sure what you mean by "master key". If you're talking about words
that don't match those in Word's dictionary, and that must be checked
against a medical dictionary, you can either build the dictionary yourself
in Word (by adding correctly spelled jargon to your custom or personal
dictionary) or purchase special-purpose dictionaries for Word (I believe
that either Stedman's or Dorland's comes with a Word-compatible spelling
module, but haven't checked recently). If you mean that you want to compare
a dictated document (which originated in Word) with the result of what the
student typed (also in Word), Word's "compare documents" feature works
adequately, albeit not flawlessly.
--Geoff Hart, FERIC, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
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