Using the WP for template letters
Here is another way to go. I have thought of using IT Includes more for templates, normals, etc. However, I like my present set up where I use the WP file list. I do use Includes and have thousands of entries in each doctor's set of Included glossaries from previous work and from the ABCZ set. But I keep surgery and correspondence templates in each doctor's folder (I have only about 15 doctors now). I put the template at the top of each folder by beginning it with a number, e.g. (simplifying) WP shows: C:\Smith
1 DrSmithHP
Advantages:
I can begin typing with a template or with a patient file from the same list, if a repeat patient. Using the old file of the same patient saves retyping the demographics. I can convert an updated template (some doctors update on the fly) by deleting patient information from the file just typed and renaming the older template, all in the WP. (This can be done easily using IT too but it seems mighty simple this way.) I don't have to update IT. Disadvantage:
If the template or normal is partial (e.g. the PE only, not a complete template with header, salutation, signature, etc.), I begin the filename with a 2: 1 DrSmithRSh
I could put these in Instant Text but I like to have them in the WP where they are also quickly accessible for revision and where they are in proximity to patient files. Just another way of working. Jon
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