"Exporting from SEMD and Importing into Instant Text" by Gayla "Rennie" Bly Copyright 2005 Session Start: Sun May 01 00:00:00 2005 Session Ident: #MTville [10:06] You have Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary? [10:06] You can create an anatomy file from that if you want and [10:06] even import it into Instant Text. [10:08] If you have a minute, I can walk you through setting up an anatomy glossary from Sted's. [10:08] Okay, let's rock and roll! [10:18] Open Notepad. [10:20] Now, in Notepad, do a "save as." [10:20] Save as filename anatomy.txt and save it to your desktop. [10:21] Open SEMD (Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictionary). [10:21] Hit F7 in SEMD. [10:21] Then type [10:21] *muscle* [10:22] You should see a list of muscles come up. [10:22] Now, down in the list of muscles, [10:22] anywhere in there, right click and select Export. [10:23] Navigate to your anatomy.txt and click "Okay." [10:23] Now go to your desktop and open the file. [10:23] You should see the entries there. [10:24] Okay, now we are going to bring it into Instant Text. [10:24] Open Instant Text to full view [10:25] ( alt +/ ). [10:27] Go to Tools/Importer. [10:27] On the "Importing" tab, choose "Text File." [10:27] Then navigate to your anatomy.txt and open it. [10:28] Then it will ask what glossary name you want to use. Accept the default of anatomy.glo. [10:28] Then press Save [10:28] and then Okay. [10:29] Now close out of the importer window. [10:29] The glossary should show up in your listing; [10:29] If not, open it. Voila! [10:30] Now, I want to do an extra step. [10:30] I really think these entries are better in the "Word" advisory [10:30] rather than the "Phrase" advisory, which is where they are now. [10:31] Now go back to Tools. [10:31] Tools/Importer and then Workshop tab. [10:32] Click on the Transform tab, [10:32] and then click on "Phrases to Words." [10:32] Then navigate again to your anatomy.glo [10:32] and say Okay. [10:33] Then click Save when that's done. [10:35] Okay...one final lesson! [10:36] When next you want to add to this--bones, veins, arteries, tendons, joints, whatever, [10:36] here's what you will do: [10:36] Let's say you do veins next. [10:36] Export from SEMD just like before, but when you export it, [10:36] DO NOT export it to the anatomy.txt file [10:37] because it will write over what's already there, and we don't want it to. [10:37] Pick a temporary file name, just anything. [10:37] I always use X as a temp file name. I delete X when I'm done. ;) [10:37] Okay, export to X.txt (or whatever you've named your temporary file). [10:38] Then open X.txt and select all the entries and then paste them into your anatomy.txt file. [10:38] Your anatomy.txt file will grow over time as you add new stuff. [10:38] Now you can delete X.txt. [10:39] X.txt is only a tool to get the entries over to anatomy.txt. [10:39] Does that make sense? [10:39] If it does, we'll go to the next step. [10:39] We already have a glossary named anatomy.glo [10:40] So all you do now is to import anatomy.txt JUST like you did the first time. [10:40] It WILL write on top of the anatomy.glo, [10:40] but we don't care [10:40] because our text file (anatomy.txt) has everything in it. [10:40] Don't use anatomy.glo for anything else, [10:40] i.e., don't manually add entries to this glossary [10:41] because you'll lose 'em. ;) [10:41] If you want to add more anatomy stuff, [10:41] do it in your anatomy.txt file. [10:41] Anatomy.txt will be a permanent file, [10:41] until you think you no longer want to be exporting anatomy stuff to Instant Text. [10:42] =)