Making the Most of Singles
I think of a Singles glossary as a kind of bonus – no matter which other glossaries I’m using, I can always rely on certain expansions showing up after hitting just one letter. It’s also fully customizable. Go to Options|Singles to see which singles glossary is in use. You can edit this glossary in a simple text program such as Wordpad or Notepad (just be careful to keep the .glo extension when you save it). You can alter the order in which words appear in your advisory by moving them around, and of course, you can delete or add whatever you like at this stage too -- even phrases if you like. Neither are you restricted to using the actual first letter of the word/phrase. You could, for example, have the patient as one of your expansions for the letter z (just to make good use of an unusual letter). You can also specify how many lines of singles appear by going to Options|Singles, even setting this to zero if you prefer not to see their entries at all. If you use a phrase expander key, you can choose to use it for singles too, in which case the number of lines appearing in the advisory will default to one. This is also the dialog box for you to choose which singles glossary to use -- medical default, general default, or one of your own. Singles glossaries can be a big timesaver. Try playing around with them; you might be surprised. If in doubt about any of the options, click on Help when the Options|Singles dialog box is open for context sensitive assistance. MarieR
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