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Correspondence
Work with documents, letters, and images, whether created in Clinical, imported or scanned into Clinical, or received or sent via communications services such as email, SMS and MDExchange.
Letter Writer
Use the letter writer to compose patient letters and other documentation.
Creating and Editing Letters
Formatting Text
Font

Correspondence
Work with documents, letters, and images, whether created in Clinical, imported or scanned into Clinical, or received or sent via communications services such as email, SMS and MDExchange.
- Communications
  Clinical has multiple communications functions that facilitate and record communications with patients, within the practice, and with other medical professionals and healthcare providers.
- Address Book
- CDA Documents
- CDA Viewer
- Messenger
  Messenger is a built-in text-based messaging utility, allowing users to communicate instantly with all staff members and practitioners on the practice network.
- Email
  Send email from within a patient's record.
- Filtering/Searching Correspondence Records
- HealthLink
  Submit HealthLink forms from the HealthLink tab of the patient's record.
- Importing ECGs into Clinical (FAQs)
  Import electronic copies of ECGs into Clinical
- Letter Writer
  Use the letter writer to compose patient letters and other documentation.
  - Opening Letters
  - Creating and Editing Letters
    - Auto Text
      Use Auto Text to quickly insert bodies of text into a letter using a single keyword or phrase.
    - Creating CDA e-Health Documents
      CDA documents can be shared between registered practitioners via systems such as MDExchange and My Health Record.
    - Editing Letter Details
    - Correcting and Deleting Content (Letter Writer)
    - Insert and Overtype Mode
    - Moving and Copying Text
    - Moving the Cursor
    - Paragraph and Page Breaks
    - Selecting Text
    - Undo and Redo
    - Views and Zoom
    - Bullets and Numbering
    - Fields, Data, and the Data Toolbar
    - Formatting Paragraphs
    - Formatting Text
      - Colour
        Set the font colour used in letters.
      - Font
      - Position
      - Special Characters
    - Headers and Footers
      Customise the headers and footers for your letters.
    - Inserting Other Content into a Letter
    - Letterheads
    - Inserting Other Files into a Letter
    - Page Numbering
      Add page numbering to letters.
    - Preferences (Letter Writer)
    - Spell Check
    - Styles
    - Tables
    - Tabs
    - Templates
    - Thesaurus
  - Saving Letters
  - Mail Merge
  - Exporting Letters
  - Deleting Letters
  - Printing Letters
  - Printing Labels
    Print labels for affixing to letters.
- MDExchange
  MDExchange is a system and subscriber service for the rapid and secure electronic transmission of communications between medical professionals in MedicalDirector 3.7 and later.
- MedicalDirector Cover
- My Health Record
  Access a patient's My Health Record from a patient's clinical record.
- Correspondence Permissions
- SMS Reminders - About and Registration
- Documents

Font

Procedure

To change the font format of text within a letter:

Select the text to be formatted or position the cursor where the new font format is to start.
Select Format > Character. The Font window appears.

Select font settings as necessary.

Click OK to apply the selected format.

Alternatively, you can use the following keyboard shortcuts or toolbar button to apply formatting to selected text.


Attribute	Shortcut	Toolbar Button
Bold	CTRL+B	B
Italic	CTRL+I	I
Strike Out	None	N/A
Underline	CTRL+U	U
Double underline	CTRL+SHIFT+D	N/A
Word underline	CTRL+SHIFT+W	N/A

To determine what formatting has been applied to text:

Click within the text you wish to inspect.
Either;
- Examine the various font settings on the toolbar, or
- Select Format > Character from the menu bar to display the Font window. This window will display settings for the current text

Font

Procedure

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