WHAT?
Eclipse Training: The Top 50 Secrets to Happiness… with Total Eclipse!
WHEN?
November 9-13, 2009
TIME?
We’ll find five hours in there somewhere to squeeze in training!
WHERE?
Aboard the Norwegian Sky cruise ship
Leaves from Miami Nov. 9 at 5:00 pm
HOW MUCH?
$219 plus tax for the cruise
$99 for the training (optional) -includes free DVD covering all class topics
WHO?
Training presented by Julie Samford
WHAT ELSE?
.5 CEUs
I have reserved a block of 50 cabins for a group cruise on Norwegian cruise lines. The date is November 9, returning on November 13. It’s five days, 4 nights for just $219 plus tax! You are invited! I’ll be offering a short five-hour training seminar for court reporters. Those who register for the class will also get a free DVD containing every bit of the class material. The training is totally optional, and you do not have to be an Eclipse user or even a court reporter to go on this cruise. Hope you’ll join me!
A deposit of $200 will hold your cabin for two people. The remainder is due by September 2. The cruise is $219 plus $69.56 tax, so the total price is $288.56. That rate is per person, based on double occupancy. If you need a room with three or four beds, please let me know and I’ll find out that rate for that. You can also upgrade to a room with a window or even a balcony.
If you need a roomate, there’s a female reporter I can get you in touch with who is looking to share a room. Please use the form at the bottom of the page to contact Julie Samford, or call 800-320-6223, ext. 1.
Click here to book your cruise now!
Many Southwest flights are $99 each way right now. You can fly into Fort Lauderdale, which is about 45 minutes from the Port of Miami. If you fly into the Miami airport, the cruise ships are only eight miles away.
| DAY | DATE | PORT | ARRIVE | DEPART | |
| Mon | Nov | 9 | Miami, FL | 5:00pm | |
| Tue | Nov | 10 | Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas | 8:00am | 5:00pm |
| Wed | Nov | 11 | Nassau, Bahamas | 8:00am | 6:00pm |
| Thu | Nov | 12 | Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas | 8:00am | 5:00pm |
| Fri | Nov | 13 | Miami, FL | 8:00am | |
Click here for more cruise details
Click here for Bahamas Bound Cruise Forum
Eclipse Training:
Let me guess. You’ve been on Eclipse for quite some time, but you were in a big hurry, so you just basically learned how to get a transcript out. You know that Eclipse has some really awesome features, but you just haven’t had the time to sit down and figure everything out. Well, then roll up your sleeves for my brand new 50 Secrets class! I’ve put together what I hope will be an amazing adventure featuring some of the best and the coolest tips, tricks and tweaks that Total Eclipse has to offer. My goal is to send you home happier than you’ve EVER been that you chose this great software program.
Auto Brief
- How to tell Eclipse EXACTLY how you want your Auto Briefs, like:
- no asterisks, please
- for the first brief, use “1-RBGS,” for the second brief, “2-RBGS,” etc.
- never give me a brief for phrases containing “it, or, and, exhibit”
- How to delete the last Auto Brief suggestion
- How to tell Eclipse you don’t like the last suggestion… please try again
- How to have your Auto Brief suggestions display “LIKE THIS” instead of “HRAOEUBG THEUS”
Translation Magic
- How to tweak your phonetic table so Eclipse knows how you write steno
- How to tell if your Translation Magic number is all wrong
- Three places to click for even better Translation Magic results
Dictionaries
- Some really tricky dictionary entries, like:
- how to define “street” so that if it’s used as part of an address, the word before it is automatically capitalized and the number before that word is turned into digits, as in “9 Pencil Street”
- how to define “exhibit number” so that it seamlessly translates as either “Exhibit No. 2″ or “the next exhibit number.”
- how to define “TOD” if sometimes that is your “today” or “Todd,” but many times it’s the suffix “-ed” and then the word “to” (and you will never, ever see “it was mention today me” AGAIN!)
- A simple keyboard command to instantly add a dictionary entry
- How to turn any list of words and phrases from the internet or a list of spellings for a job from another reporter into an Eclipse dictionary
- How to set up one job dictionary that will be used continuously if you’ll be working on the same case for two weeks
Realtime
- How to write notes to yourself in realtime that you don’t have to worry about an attorney ever seeing
- Two ways to S-T-I-T-C-H in realtime
- including spelling out S-T-R-A-T-F-O-R-D with just two steno strokes
- and how to use that same method to fingerspell at lightning speed
- How to use the built-in macros
- like the one that comes in handy when the attorney repeats everything the witness says, and you only have to write it out the first time.
- How to blank the screen in realtime in two quick strokes
- How to write a realtime stroke to have your computer ask the attorneys to slow down
- How to write a realtime stroke to have your computer ask the witness to spell something
- How to use Eclipse to write realtime directly into your email or any Windows program
- How to have your realtime jobs automatically named by date and time in any format you like, as in “November 9, 2009 – 10:00 a.m.”
- How to end one realtime file and start a new one with two strokes
Editing
- How to use autoreplacements to type in long words and phrases
- A great trick for automatically formatting the witness speaking in colloquy
- Automatically have Eclipse put in “BY MR. JONES” after colloquy
- How to tell at a glance which dictionary to blame for a weird word translation
- How to have your dictionary open at the top of your screen and follow along with the word your cursor is on while editing
- How to tell Eclipse to put any capitalized globals into your job dictionary instead of your main dictionary by default
- How you, your scopist or your proofreader can write notes in the transcript while editing that you don’t have to worry about an attorney ever seeing
- How to get Eclipse to quickly scan through the transcript, only stopping on places where you need to global an untranslate, choose a conflict or fill in a blank.
Audio Synchronization
- Two simple steps to set up audio synchronization
- How to check the audio on your computer
- How to automatically skip over the pauses when you’re listening back to the audio
- How to tell Eclipse to pause the recording for you if you’re not writing anything
- How to make the audio stop playing back when you’re globalling, and automatically start back when you’re done with the entry
Good To Know
- How to have Eclipse take those pesky final “L” shadows out of your otherwise perfect strokes
- How to use the speaker table
- How to download updates
- How to use the seating chart
- Back up files directly to an external drive
- How to use the PDF manual on your computer
- How to create your ASCII with a special hyperlinked word index
- One button to click for an instant in-depth explanation of any user tab or window
- How to have Eclipse automatically create a backup every 10 minutes, and how to use that backup in case of emergency
- And last but not least, how to have your appearance page automatically fill in with those same wonderful clients you work with all the time.
The class will be 5 hours or .5 CEUs. You’ll also get a free DVD covering all the seminar topics. The cost for the seminar is just $99!
Please do not bring your writer to the cruise training! We do not want this to turn into a realtime connection troubleshooting seminar. Julie Samford will cover each topic quickly and thoroughly, and then we’ll go on to the next one until we’ve knocked them all out. This is not a “how to get out a transcript” class, although we do offer those at other times. Please call tech support with your Eclipse questions and don’t save them up for class time. In a normal seminar, you could do that, but let’s get it done and get to the beach, people! We’ll be on a mission to learn 50 great features, and in order to fit them all in within the five-hour period, we’ll need to rock ‘n roll at a good pace. You’ll have a handout and a DVD to go over again at home if it doesn’t all quite sink in!
Please register as soon as possible if you’re planning on attending the class, because I need to let the cruise line know what size room we’ll need for training. Thanks for your help!
