Realtime Bridge - Bienenstock Court Reporting
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1. Bridge Version 2 0 User Manual gt ADVANTAGESOFIWARE 925 Central Parkway www eclipsecat com Stuart Florida 34994 772 288 3266 800 800 1759 FAX 772 288 1737 2007 Advantage Software Inc Copyright 2007 by Advantage Software Inc All Rights Reserved Worldwide This manual contains information and trade secrets proprietary to Advantage Software Inc It is intended for use by Advantage Software customers only No part of this manual may be copied or distributed transmitted transcribed stored n a retrieval system or translated into any human or computer language in any form or by any means whether electronic mechanical magnetic manual or otherwise or disclosed to third parties without the express written permission of Advantage Software Inc ABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents FABLE OF CONT Srs INTRODUGHON BEE 1 What S ee E Mado vlan 1 SEUD o N O O EEN 1 Salle 1 Basie Procedu EE 1 THE BA DEE VIIND UI BEE 3 Quick START amp NAVIGATING IN BRIDGE oooooococccccconoconcncncncococonocnonononcncoconononononcnencncnos 5 SEARCHING IN BRIDGE EG 7 USNO Me Sea Ee 7 COUN GK Se A Cerrado risa dianas 8 MN e o 9 Me ITS TL asistidas 9 EISE 9 ODOM SE 9 EE 10 SAVE AS st ee a ee a ge ee 10 SED ENEE 10 E EE 12 A ee ee ee ae ee 12 EE ee 12 Eege EE ee 12 TNE Edit On EEN 13 CODY EE 13 POS ee A qu E E DE EE E E a E 13 QUICK Eege 13 EE Ee ee E 13 ING CC a E O A 14 o E E E EERTEUTER 14 RT2. BRIDGE demo Press Ctrl K key words BRIDGE deposit The demo function displays a toolbar along the top with Stop demo Pause demo Faster Slower buttons About Bridge This menu option displays the Bridge version number and copyright information This information may be utilized during troubleshooting by ASI support 22 Arrenp x A Toousar BUTTONS Button Function Button Function CH Help Opens Help file Help Copy Copy Places highlighted text into the Clipboard Visualizer Opens ee browser with 20 KE Visualizer movies Paste Paste Places the contents of the Clipboard at the cursor position Connect Connect to KS Realtime data Connect stream Keywords Opens a dialog listing keywords to highlight throughout the transcript Setup Setup gt communications gt Play Play Plaus if available an audio or video file associated with the transcript Scroll Cursor to end of transcript m Open Opens a Y previously saved Open transcript Save Saves the current transcript pa Print Opens the Ga Print dialog 23 24 Aerrenp x B Speep Keys Keystroke Function Keystroke Function Ctrl N New file Ctrl G or Ctrl J Go to Communication Ctrl 1 Ctrl 2 Issue codes Ctrl 0 E 0 BEE BEE om EY TI O nach LI ST J carter amago os II ot O O op TT O mn Lee IE EEE om TO IS EEE Qui
3. E 29 Maximum WM 28 Ment Dar ee een 3 Multimedia settngg 11 A A OA 1 11 27 28 TN ee A TO 9 25 eege sees 14 Nofe CO UM 11 Note dialO Bor nen 5 Note Searching Orriols 8 OPM 9 12 25 COOOL essen 26 27 EE 13 25 Play multimedia u 17 A A A 12 Question searching for 8 Quick MAK E 13 Quicksearch backward or forward 5 realtme cece eeee eee 1 9 11 12 27 28 Realtime Linesin 11 SAVE O A tates 1 9 10 12 25 A eda 10 ScrolingeTeilime ee 5 SEALCH Dar a teen 8 16 17 Search bar 3 5 7 16 17 18 19 20 Search Mei 16 SEID ern 1 9 10 23 25 26 27 SHOW File ae 18 Space bar General mark 5 SE MG nennen nase 20 Speaker searching Tor 8 e EE 5 Status Bit aussen 3 Text searchin e aaa 7 TMA COGS Sa ee ee ee 3 13 A E 18 Toolbar 3 9 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21523 KS 3 9 18 MIC WM COU anne 18 WISUAIIZCIS ee 21 NV TING OW AAA O REEL EEEIENERETEFRIERER 3 ZOOM O A T EA 19
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5. S Zoom In Ctrl 7 location in the document the timecodes for that line of ren v Status bar the document and the type of issue for any mark on Colors Crit i nn S e Line Numbers that line There are also indicators for Caps Lock on or Spacing rie We off CAP Number pad lock on or off NUM and Auto scroll End v Keywords ni AL HI T ee ee N Senf Welt er mv es ew Scroll lock on or off SCRL N BridgeDemo brg Bridge File Edit Search View Help GASS EES RC Help Visualizer Connect Setup Scroll Paste Keywords Index Play 001 13 By Mr Marshall Let me Cep that your 17 51 09 4 001 14 deposition today is being transcribed in real time This is a note thanks to our skilled court reporter here Since the 12 91 21 attorneys are using a special program called BRIDGE 17 91 24 their computers are displaying an instant rough draft of 17 9132 your deposition This helps them to follow what you re 17 51 38 saying make notes and prepare prat that sii will 17 51 44 searhfor fimo 66 A a an 2 SN B TT r For Help press F1 Page 1 Line 19 17 51 44 15 CAP NUM SCRL The size and position of the main window will be recorded so that when you close Bridge it will open back up in the same place The page numbers are displayed on the left of every line as page line 001 15 Timecodes are displayed on the right side Notes display in a small border with a background color that defaults to light y
6. file will be transmitted Press Alt T to open the Translate notes dialog Mark the Realtime radio button Click OK to begin the realtime job At this point you or the other user s can open Bridge and connect to your output The Bridge user simply goes to File Connect Ctrl T See below for additional Bridge settings When you are finished writing realtime press Shift Alt T or use the Production menu Stop translation command Note The realtime settings can be made once and left alone for subsequent realtime jobs You do not need to reset them each time you open a realtime file 28 INDEX Al CAS iii 21 Allow backepnaces 27 AMMO ON er 5 14 Answer searching Tor 8 APP CCUG ee 27 A e A 14 Attachment searching for 8 o AN 20 E A e O ete 20 COM POL Eee 11 27 EH 1 9 12 23 25 28 CODY Areas 13 25 Delete Marken 14 Drossel 22 Eclipse user seWP u neennse 26 Ede Mein see 13 EXPORT aaa 12 Erlen DU ee ee 9 MAA a a 11 Stee E A ES E ITE IT 16 25 ASA 16 Find Eeer 16 Flush Word Delaw 27 Poll see 19 Force MACIAS ridad 27 GOTO A A 17 Jae EE 9 21 Help Men een 21 EE 1 3 16 ESAS 13 Issue searching re 7 Issues MAA er 15 Keyboard Bart ss 5 21 FC SELON em e 25 KeyWord ia 16 Eine Number es ee 18 A E 20 Location Go to Search for 7 Location mdiceators 3 Manase Issie sans 15 Marker sea 1 3 5 13 14 15 25 Maik see een 28 Mark Searching e EEN
7. 26 4 From the drop down list of Comm device choose to send the output to a COM port or to send the text to a file on a network The Bridge user or users can then connect to the file on the network a b If using a COM port choose Com port and select Setup gt gt Choose the port you are using from the list and set the Baud rate to 38K 38400 If sharing the file over a network or running Bridge on the same computer on which you are running Total Eclipse choose File sharing and select Setup gt gt The Browse for Folder dialog box will open allowing you to select the location for the shared file Browse For Folder O Program Files DO Advantage Software DO Bridge E G EclipseMT E CH Documentation E LC Lessons 9 Portable Macros O Program Files 9 Spell i Users 5 HCap OORT O Hilson Make New Folder OK i 5 Under Output characteristics you can make choices that affect the way your text will appear in the Bridge file d Apply edits When selected your editing changes will appear on the Bridge output The edits will be applied when the cursor moves to the next paragraph Allow backspaces Leave this option off f you do NOT wish to allow backspace characters to back up over existing text Note that you can still delete one word in realtime even if this option is turned off Force margins This option allows you to change the margins on the Bridge display When this option is
8. altime you want displayed at the bottom of the split screen that appears when you scroll up during a Realtime session Multimedia Opens a Multimedia settings dialog to control the settings for the audio file Multimedia settings KEN Timecode offset 00 00 00 00 WAN ME ZEC 000 Start time for this file 2341708 Alternate media file path Tn Cancel When finished with settings click OK to choose them or Cancel to exit without saving the changes 11 Connect gt Speed key Ctrl T Toolbar button This opens the Open file dialog box where you can choose the bridge file you wish to view You will use Connect to view a realtime file Open to view a previously saved file Connect Print amp Speed key Ctrl P Toolbar button ee Print This will print the entire Bridge file exactly as it appears on the screen including the font and other display information such as whether or not to show timecodes This printout will also include a report at the end which lists the marks and notes and the page and line numbers where they appear Any notes that are written will appear on the right side of the text The notes will wrap to several lines if necessary Export Speed key Ctrl E The Export function will export the contents of a Bridge file to an ASCII file Exit Speed key Alt F4 This function will close the program If you have made changes to an open file Bridge will ask if you want to Save your changes
9. arch backward and Quicksearch forward Quicksearch backward Note FS Speed keys See graphic nu fam p y srap Quicksearch forward Mark FQ These commands allow you to d Go to trl 5 or Crl SR Ge perform searches with single keystrokes without using the Play multimedia Ctra search bar The cursor will move to the next line containing the selected search item Attachment F12 Question Ctrl g Answer Ciril 4 Speaker Cole F8 will take you to the previous Note with the cursor n the note ready to edit F9 will take you to the previous Mark whether 1t has a note or not F11 will send your cursor to the drop down list of issues on the Search bar Go to Speed key CG or Ctrl J This keyboard menu shortcut selects Location in the Search type selection list on the Search bar and puts the cursor in the search data field This field w ll show a small prompt to suggest what to do such as Type a page line or timecode Play multimedia gt Speed key Ctrl M Toolbar button Play This command will play the audio or video file associated with the transcript you are viewing if one is available 17 THe View Menu Speed key Alt V This menu contains commands appropriate to the file currently open as well as the visibility of components of the Bridge window MEN Help Sh owi H de Show Hide w Tool bar Font Shifteciree 9 Search bar i Zoom bn Cirl Weed This option toggles on or off the Tool
10. bar Search bar en v Status bar oom OU E Issue bar Status Bar Marks and Keywords ie E Y Timecodes l Line Numbers It also controls the Timecodes and Line numbers seg ne v Marks Auto scroll End v keywords Timecodes Toolbar button pl Mi i Selecting Show Hide Timecodes cycles the display of timecodes from hours and minutes 18 30 to hours minutes and seconds 18 30 46 to off entirely You can also toggle through the timecodes options using the Toolbar button on the Search bar Note that the display on the Status bar shows Timecodes in hours minutes seconds frames 18 30 46 09 line Numbers Toolbar button 1 y The Line Numbers On Off toolbar button on the Search bar toggles the Page and Line numbers display on and off Page and Line numbers are displayed on the left of every line as page line 001 15 Marks Toolbar button gr This option toggles the display of marks and associated notes on or off Keywords Toolbar button This option toggles the highlighting of Keywords in the document on or off The Keywords themselves remain in the list unless deleted 18 Font Speed key Shift Ctrl F Toolbar button This menu choice opens the Font dialog box Font style Regular A A YY Arial Black Cancel Aral Narrow E Fr Arial Rounded MT Bol Bold Italic Tr AvantGarde Bk BT F BankGothic Md BT Tr Baskerville Old Face Effects Sample Strikeout Underline Aa BbY yZz Colo
11. before exiting 12 Search View Help THe Ep r Menu copy Get Paste Ctrl Speed key AIt E Quick mark Space or FS Issue code Issue i Ctl 1 Mote Enter or Insert Issue 2 Cr e Attachment Crit Issue 3 Crl 3 Contains commands appropriate to the file currently ee er Site Crs Opel List marks Chi Se ae Manage issues Cl Sa Se Issue 7 Chr Issue 8 Crl s C OP y Issue 9 Ctro Issue 10 Ctrl 0 Speed key Ctrl C Toolbar button Copy Y ou can copy part or all of the document and paste it into any Windows software Highlight the portion of the document you wish to copy using your mouse or Shift plus up or down arrow keys and choose Edit Copy or Ctrl C Then open your word processing software Notepad Wordpad Word etc and choose Paste Ctrl V to insert the selected text Whatever is visible when you highlight the text marks timecodes line numbers will be included in the copying process If marks are included the type of mark will be noted and any accompanying notes will also be displayed in the pasted document Paste Speed key Ctrl V Toolbar button Paste This option places text from the Windows clipboard into an annotation associated with a mark in Bridge First place text from any source word processor spreadsheet etc on the Windows clipboard using Ctrl C Place your cursor on the line where you want to place the mark with the information and choose Edit Paste or Ctrl V A mark will be placed on that
12. cksearch back ward Quicksearch forward F8 Note Shift F8 Note Mark Shift F9 Mark Issue Shift F11 Issue F12 Attachment Shift F12 Attachment Ctrl Q Question Shift Ctrl Q Question CtrI A Answer Shift Ctrl A Answer CtrH R Speaker Shift Ctrl R Speaker 29 Rrrenoix C Torat Ecuese Serup Procepure This information is for the Total Eclipse user setting up to run Bridge In order to send a transcript to a user running Bridge the Total Eclipse user must first add the Bridge settings to Total Eclipse 1 Go to User Settings Alt U Realtime 2 Your bas c Realt me settings Flush Delay Pending translation display Follow always and Division interval will apply to the Total Eclipse document and have no bearing on the Bridge document 3 In the Output format list box see if Bridge LawBridge TeleView is listed If it is select it and choose Change If it is not listed select Add and the Output format dialog box will open From the drop down list of Output formats choose Bridge LawBridge Tele View W Output format Output format Bridqe LawBridge Tele view Gomm device File sharing Ke Output characteristics Apply edits All caps Auto dial Flush word delay ty Force margins a Space Timeout to blar k Left margin Wai time to blank Right margin FB i Se Max rows Sen Indentation Foreground Attribute Background Caption channel Se Mode Encoder Hangup mode
13. d er pha mr A Paro adoos Fg a CRP Ri Ce ca Poda Bub rt au ral ae Kb KK Band Fe mi pareggi cri the thee Bech ie mi ae de n E Ge ig re ra mi 21 ar em E D key Display Disclay Calar Gr O MA rom nacn Spacing Chil F Zog in Cir Zeom Gul Cr 7 Shen Hide Timecodes 153 Som Hida Line Sumteri its Kerger Sur Cil E OH Shon Aida Kees Quick Searches Sacked j PS shi Pa Cuen Chi CO Ares Ei a larka obese keus E A de all Piar and Mo Diulk Mark Spscasar or Fl 2 Are Chek et marge or cick Porches ar s bate Aipeog io lime ard art teisa Eher mei Pees AER or MEAT Kein dou Chek on hepa oer ler lara Cil l Ce Zi ee sans Sick on booed on lizar Bar The Search Dar amp also mach bps opioa tect press EHTER key Speeches Ciel Fie Find Hr eet Inu Fi Hedi Previous Irar Sure Fl Demo This menu item starts a self running demo file It acts exactly like a reporter writing realtime into the system including applying edits It works by slowly reading in a demo law file from the same folder where Bridge is installed You can use any law file for a demo so as an alternative to the particular demo file that ships with Bridge you can prepare your own demo files to show your clients to demonstrate your work e Bridge Demo Bridge File Edit Search View Help Y JEAN Help visualizer Connect Setup Scroll Open E Stop demo Faster Slower
14. d to open a list of issue codes where you can type in descriptions for 10 different issues and can also select issue colors by clicking on the color to the right of the issue description field and selecting a color using the color dialog The colors are stored in the global Bridge settings the issue descriptions are stored with the document il 2 3 4 5 6 pl a a o Cancel 15 THe Searcy Menu Speed key Alt S Find Speed key Ctrl F This command places the cursor in the search data field on the search bar For the Text search the combo box lists the text from the last 10 searches Note allows you to search for text inside notes Text searches are whole word matches and are case sensitive only if the search text contains any capital letters Find Previous Speed key Shift F3 Toolbar button on Search bar This option will move the cursor to the previous instance of the specified search data Find Next Speed key F3 Toolbar button on Search bar This option will move the cursor to the next instance of the specified search data Keywords Speed key Ctr K Toolbar button Keywords This command displays an edit box for typ ng in keywords Those keywords are then highlighted on the screen wherever they appear in the text All keywords are whole word matches and are only case sensitive fthey contain any capital letters Word Index V Speed key Ctrl W Toolbar button l 16 Quickse
15. ellow to look like a post it note If necessary notes overlay the timecodes Quick START amp NAVIGATING IN BRIDGE Using Bridge to follow the creation of a transcript in Realtime you can move around in the document using the following keys and commands Scroll l 2 3 4 10 The up 7 and down arrow keys move the cursor up or down one line The Page up and Page down keys move the cursor up or down one screen The Home key moves the cursor to the beginning of the transcript The End key moves the cursor to the end of the transcript You can also use the Scroll Tool bar icon If a Realtime session is in progress the cursor goes to the end and continues to follow along as text is created Note If you scroll up the bottom part of the screen automatically turns into a split screen scrolling realtime display When you move the cursor back down the split screen goes away You can define how many lines of split screen scrolling realtime you want at the bottom in the settings dialog the default is 5 Pressing the Enter key opens a Note dialog box and places a mark on the line containing the cursor when you click OK in the Note dialog box If there is a mark already on the line pressing Enter will re open the Note dialog box so you can edit your note Pressing the Space bar places a General mark on the line containing the cursor If there is already a mark on the line pressing the Space bar removes the mark as lo
16. es the line spacing of the document you are viewing moving through single spacing 1 5 spacing and double spacing You can also use the button located on the Search bar Auto scroll Speed key End Toolbar button scroll This menu option speed key or Toolbar button sends the cursor to the end of the document Note If you scroll up the bottom part of the screen automatically turns into a split screen scrolling realtime display When you move the cursor back down the split screen goes away You can define how many lines of split screen scrolling realtime you want at the bottom n the settings dialog the default is 5 20 THe Hew Menu Speed key Alt H Help Topics Speed key Fl Toolbar button Opens the Bridge Help file Visualizer Speed key Shift F1 Opens the Introductory Bridge Visualizer file in your browser with links to over 20 Visualizer movies covering various aspects of using Bridge Except for a 5 minute overview movie most are designed to be watched with no audio Manual Opens the Acrobat Reader version of the Bridge User Manual Keyboard Chart man a OF VEQCAS 18 AS E d Eli Ei El Y Ele E Opens a one page chart showing the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts and icons Mana shot he Aulo Splil Winden Lie Lis Dra sarral fo mau Bagi ree F rder auto LE PRT core for evi are poe for ieam rg te hin imap 2 St Belle Lira Ta crol ds md cick Gerell een O Hise voor Poll Hea
17. key Alt F The File menu controls functions that affect the entire document Use the File menu to create New Open Save Print rename Save As or Export a document The File menu also offers the options to Setup your connection settings and Connect to a realtime session The File menu also keeps a list of recently opened documents a handy shortcut for getting to frequently used files To open one of the listed files simply click on the filename appearing on the recent documents list New Speed key CN This option opens a new blank document Use this when you want to start a new session If you already have a document loaded when you hit the connect button it ADDS the new text to the existing document You only use New if you want to start with a blank document Open FB Speed key Ctrl O Toolbar button A d Oper Opens the Open file dialog box Size Type File Folder My Recent 14 KB Bridge Document Documents Desktop My Documents Mu Computer ei gt Mu Network File name Budget emo brg Places Files of type Bridge Files brg Ka Cancel You use the Open option to view a previously saved file Save Speed key CS Toolbar button save Saves a previously saved file Ifthe file has not been saved the Save As dialog box opens and you can name the file and save it Save as Speed key Shift Ctrl S Opens the Save as file dialog box Save As Save irr E Bridge e Docs QPe
18. line with the text in the note Quick mark Speed key Space or F5 This option places a General mark at the cursor and lets you type a note without opening the Note dialog If you cursor to the line containing the mark you can type or backspace directly in the note area Or you can press Enter to open the note dialog where you can edit the note Note You can add a mark to any line your cursor is on and type n a note simply by beginning to type When finished the up or down keys will take you to the next or previous line of text in the transcript Issue Code Speed keys Color coded Buttons numbered 1 10 on the Issue bar You can stack multiple issues on one line which will be represented by stacked colored circles on the display Issue buttons toggle on so when the cursor is on an issue coded line you can see the toggled in buttons as 13 well as the colored circles Any issue can be toggled on or off at any time The issue coding can be done on a line whether it has a note or not but the text of the issue code will appear before the note text n the note box on the right side and fl Speed key Enter or Insert Toolbar button _ If you press the Enter key this box will open and allow you to This option Opens the Note dialog box When you are in add a note to the line containing the cursor the Note box you can perform complex edits such as copy paste etc Clicking OK closes the dialog and adds a General mark i
19. ndicated by a black dot between the line number and the text Cancel 003 19 ithasreal value For instance sometimes you ll see Hitting the Enter or Insert Key places a 003 20 me make a note in the rough draft on my screen or General mark with the Note text here 003 21 perhaps mark a spot as I m listening to you Call it 18 01 When the cursor is on the correct line for the note it becomes the active note and you can see by the text color and a static cursor at the end of the text when you can type backspace into the note If several notes overlap vertically the active note always displays on top Attachment Speed key CV If you execute this command on an empty line 1t will open a file dialog and let you attach a file If the line already has an attachment it will open it To delete an attachment you can use the Delete command just like deleting a note or mark Eclipse will ask if you are sure you to wish to delete the mark An attachment appears as a note containing the lt lt filepath gt gt If there 1s a note on the line the filepath will be below the text of the note Delete mark Speed key Delete or F6 This option will delete the mark from the line at the cursor position It will also delete any associated notes and attached files If the note area is not empty Eclipse will ask if you are sure you to wish to delete the mark 14 Manage Issues Speed key Ctrl I Issues N so Use this comman
20. ng as you have not added a note If there 1s a specific issue mark without a note on the line pressing the Space bar removes the mark Pressing the Space bar again will replace the mark Pressing a letter key places a mark on the line and lets you type in a note directly in the note area to the right of the transcript window If several notes overlap vertically the active note always displays on top Pressing the up 7 or down arrow key exits the note area and moves the cursor up or down one line You can use the Search bar at the bottom of the window to search for any Text Location Mark Note Issue Attachment Question Answer or Speaker using the Find Next and Find Previous buttons after specifying what you want to find Additional buttons on the Search bar let you toggle on or off timecodes page line numbers marks and keyword highlighting Other buttons let you adjust the line spacing and magnification zoom in or out You can do a Quicksearch backward or forward using Speed keys or the Search menu items to search for the previous or next Note Mark Issue Attachment Question Answer or Speaker Speed keys for these and other features are listed in the Appendix page In addition clicking on the Help menu Keyboard Chart opens n Acrobat Reader a one page chart showing the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts and icons SEARCHING IN BRIDGE USING THE SEARCH BAR AA PA NI gt gt EE Search f
21. off the default setting the text on the display conforms to the paragraph margins set in User Settings Paragraph All caps This option sets the Bridge display to all capital letters Flush word delay This option controls the amount of time in milliseconds for example 2000 milliseconds 2 seconds the system will wait before transmitting the very last word written Each word will wait until the following space is transmitted before it is displayed Setting this to zero turns the option off and causes the system to wait indefinitely You can set this 27 6 delay so that you will have the opportunity to delete a word the viewer has not yet seen f Header You can type into this space a piece of text such as UNCERTIFIED ROUGH DRAFT and that text will be transmitted to Bridge at the beginning of every page g Maximum WPM This option sets a maximum speed that words are allowed to display on the screen If the written rate goes too high this option will begin intentionally pausing slightly between each word displayed When the written rate slows down the display will continue and will catch up with the reporter When finished with the output settings close the User Settings dialog boxes BEGINNING A Ren nme BRiDGe Session ll SH e Eh e Connect your writer to an available COM serial port on your computer Connect the Bridge user s computer to yours via serial ports or log on to network to which the output
22. or Location Type page line or timecode Ez CR For Help press F1 The Search bar located near the bottom left corner of the Bridge w ndow contains a Search for selection list so you can search your document for any of the E following Search For Text MM For Help p Text Location Mark Note Issue Attachment Question Answer and Speaker Next to the Search for selection list is a combo box where you enter the tem you wish to find For each type of search the combo box will coment suggest the information you should enter After specifying the search Question information if needed hitting enter will move your cursor to the next nn occurrence of the tem e Text Speed key Ctrl F Y ou can type text into the combo box and hit Enter to find 1t The combo box lists the text from the last 10 searches Text searches are whole word matches and are case sensitive only if the search text contains any capital letters e Location Go to Speed key Ctrl G or Ctrl J You can type a page line or timecode e Mark Searches for the next mark of any kind whether it has a note or not Search for Issue For Help press F1 Select issue Selecting Issue opens the combo box listing all of the issues for the current job and you can select from that list o L Tr ee eee ee ee 10 11 General e Note Searches for the next note w th the cursor n the note ready to edit Yo
23. r MN Black ze Script Westen e From here you can select preferences for Font Font style Regular Bold Italic Bold italic Size Effects Strikeout and or Underline Script Western or Hebrew Note that to change the color of the text you use the View menu Colors dialog Zoom In magnify F Speed key Ctrl Toolbar button EA Zoom Out Speed key Ctrl Toolbar button Ze You can Zoom in and Zoom out which works s milarly to using successively stronger Zoom in or weaker Zoom out magnifying glasses The Zoom in and Zoom out buttons on the Search bar control zooming Both buttons use a magnifying glass icon the difference is that zoom n has a plus sign on it and zoom out has a minus sign The zoom in magnifies the display to show the document n greater detail The zoom out reduces the display to show more of the document in the available display area Each click of a zoom button changes the display incrementally 19 Colors Colors Speed key Ctrl D Selecting this menu option opens a Colors dialog where you can set the colors for Text the color of the labels for Questions Co Ma Answers E H Speakers Questions and Answers as well as the Keywords Background colors for Normal text the Current line the Current line split realtime window highlighted Keywords and Notes Realtime window Cancel Spacing A Speed key Ctrl B Toolbar button Choosing this menu option toggl
24. ridgeDermo brg Mu Recent Documents Desktop Mu Computer Mu Metw rk File name Places Save as type Bridge Files brg This menu choice gives you the option to save the file with a different name or in a different folder Setup Speed key Ctrl U Toolbar button IE Opens the Settings dialog box Setup Settings Protocol re Bridge Caseview ASCII Method C Comm port e File sharing Baud 38400 MM Note column 60 Realtime lines E Multimedia Cancel 10 Within the Settings dialog box The Protocol radio buttons contain these choices Bridge Caseview Livenote Summation ASCII Comm port radio button spin control to choose which COM port you will use to attach to the computer running CAT software Baud rate drop down list 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 Choose the highest setting Bridge and the CAT software can both go 38400 is usually a good default value File sharing radio button Check this when running Bridge on the same computer as Total Eclipse or across a network Total Eclipse will save data into a file and Bridge will read data from that file in realtime Note column specifies an arbitrary horizontal position for notes expressed in number of characters The default setting is 60 but can it be adjusted larger or smaller depending on how wide the margins in your CAT software tend to be Realtime Lines the number of lines of split screen scrolling re
25. sible and the Bridge user may call up transcripts from files stored on the user s own computer or network FERTURES When following a realtime transcript the Bridge user may interact with the transcript in a variety of ways When the reporter makes editing changes the program is able to refresh the transcript in realtime With little effort or distraction the user may make a simple mark insert a note attach a file a word processing document a graphic file a spread sheet etc or set a coded issue mark at any point in the transcript Files can be saved and multiple files can be viewed with each file opening in a separate Bridge window Basic PROCEDURE A typical realtime Bridge session might include five general steps Connect to the court reporter and open Bridge which creates a new document Choose preferences for working with the transcript l 2 3 Connect to the transcript 4 Follow and interact with the transcript during the proceeding 5 Print Export or Save the file optional THe Bripce WINDOW The Bridge Window consists of the Menu bar the Tool bar the text area the Issue bar with buttons for Issue Codes 1 10 the Search bar and the Status bar The Tool bar Search bar Issue bar and Status Bar can be toggled on or off by ven ES selecting or de selecting them n the View menu Show Hide J Toolbar Search bar On the Status Bar are indicators of the cursor s GA renee a A e
26. u have to option to type note text to find e Attachment With Attachment selected hitting Enter finds the next attachment in the document e Question With Question selected hitting Enter finds the next Question paragraph in the document You can also enter text to look for in a question e Answer With Answer selected hitting Enter finds the next Answer paragraph in the document You can also enter text to look for in an answer e Speaker With Speaker selected hitting Enter finds the next Speaker in the document QUICKSEARCH You also have the option of doing Quicksearches which are commands that allow you to perform searches with single keystrokes without using the search bar The cursor will move to the next line containing the selected search item An exception is a Quicksearch for an issue you must select an issue from the drop down list in the combo box Keystrokes for Quicksearch Quicksearch backward Quicksearch forward F8 Note Shift F8 Note F9 Mark Shift F9 Mark F11 Issue Shift F11 Issue F12 Attachment Shift F12 Attachment Ctri Q Question Shift Ctrl Q Question Ctri A Answer Shift Ctri A Answer Ctrl R Speaker Shift Ctrl R Speaker Quicksearches can also be accessed using the Search menu Search menu Quicksearch backward backward and Search menu Quicksearch forward options Menus There are five drop down menus in Bridge File Edit Search View and Help THe Fire Menu Speed
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