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Posted by Roger Buttermore on January 26, 1998 at 20:12:12:
In Reply to: Re: Power Secretary fo C.P. and M.D. students posted by Kathryn Hird on November 04, 1997 at 00:09:52:
I bought Power Secretary several months ago on my wife's behalf. She has suffered from CTS for several years now and was dictating books that I and my daughter typed at night. However she needs to make notes and even handwriting is unbearably painful now.
Unfortunately she never got past the first training session. She is/was? a fiction writer (20 books in print), and finds the hassle involved with PS to be detrimental to the creative process.
I had a go at it myself soon after purchase and found that on a 14 inch colour Mac screen the little window was difficult to position so that it was in view but didn't interfere with the main document window. I recall that at least four reps were necessary (I have an American accent - my wife and daughter Australian) but the performance was getting worse instead of better. It wouldn't string words together coherently in the document. I never got back to it but if I do, am tempted to throw several hours away and start over rather than retrain my file.
After completing her training as a travel agent, my 18 year old daughter has now come down with the same symptoms as my wife and will probably never be able to use a keyboard again. She completed the PS training session but reckons she needs someone to assist her with subsequent training of the program. Is this necessary?
We may have wasted our money. Have you any suggestions?