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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
Selecting Text

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
- 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.
  - Auto Text
  - Bullets and Numbering
  - Creating and Editing Letters
    - Correcting and Deleting Content (Letter Writer)
    - 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
    - Insert and Overtype Mode
    - Moving and Copying Text
    - Moving the Cursor
    - Paragraph and Page Breaks
    - Selecting Text
    - Undo and Redo
    - Views and Zoom
  - Deleting Letters
  - Exporting Letters
  - Fields, Data, and the Data Toolbar
  - Formatting Paragraphs
  - Formatting Text
  - Headers and Footers
    Customise the headers and footers for your letters.
  - Inserting Other Content into a Letter
  - Inserting Other Files into a Letter
  - Labels
  - Letterheads
  - Mail Merge
  - Opening Letters
  - Page Numbering
    Add page numbering to letters.
  - Preferences (Letter Writer)
  - Printing Letters
  - Saving Letters
  - Spell Check
  - Styles
  - Tables
  - Tabs
  - Templates
  - Thesaurus
- Page Setup
- 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

Selecting Text

One of the easiest ways to select text within the Letter Writer is to use the mouse. This is done by clicking or dragging the mouse over the text to be selected.

To select a word using the mouse, double-click the word.
To select a line of text, triple-click a word on the line.
To cancel a selection using the mouse, click anywhere on the area outside the selected text.

To cancel a selection using the keyboard, press any arrow key.

Text can also be selected using the keyboard. The following table lists the keys that can be used to select text.


To Select	Press
One character to the left	SHIFT+Left Arrow
One line up	SHIFT+Up Arrow
One word to the left	CTRL+SHIFT+Left Arrow
To the start of a line	SHIFT+Home
Up one window	SHIFT+Page Up
To the beginning of the letter	CTRL+SHIFT+Home
One character to the right	SHIFT+Right Arrow
One line down	SHIFT+Down Arrow
One word to the right	CTRL+SHIFT+Right Arrow
To the end of a line	SHIFT+End
Down one window	SHIFT+Page Down
To the end of a letter	CTRL+SHIFT+End
All text in the letter	CTRL+A