Words and Phrases

It only uses the first letter and if I add more than one letter it prompts me to add it as a phrase. But it is one word that I want to shorten and I want it to show on the word list, not phrase. Am I missing something?

If you want to see your word in the Word advisory, the word needs to be listed just under the first letter. The main characteristic of the Word advisory is that the short form you use is undefined. You can type the first letter of the word and any letter thereafter, and the word will show up (it can even be a phrase).

If you want a defined or dedicated short form for a word, the word will be added to the Phrase section of your glossary and come up in the Phrase Advisory. The Phrase advisory shows you all entries which have defined short forms. You type the first 2 letters of the short form and you will see the first short form that starts with these letters. When you run out of short short forms, you can give long short forms which need not be typed in full as you can "jump ahead" within your short form (abbreviate the abbreviation) assuming you use marker keys to expand.

You may have a short form like mistymeanor for your address. If you use the ; to expand, you can type mi plus yer to see your address come up, even when mistymeanor is the 46th entry of the mi...-entries.

There are more than 150 phrase entries in the Medstart glossary whose short forms start with tp and if you type tpor you will see immediately the phrases that contain the patient and the operating room

Marianne