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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.
Formatting Text
Special Characters

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
  - Deleting Letters
  - Exporting Letters
  - 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
  - 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

Special Characters

Before you begin

You can insert 'special' characters such as the © copyright symbol into a letter. Windows provides a small utility called Character Map which can be used to display all the characters in the Extended character set to see all the available characters and obtain a character number.

Note:

the instructions below for locating and activating the Character Map may vary depending on your version of Windows.

Procedure

Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar.
Select Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. Note that this location may vary depending on which version of Windows you have installed. The Character Map application opens.
Select the font set you wish to browse from the Font drop-down menu.
Use the scroll bar to find the character you require. Click on it to select it.
Make a note of the Keystroke in the lower-left corner. In this example 7 has been selected and the keystroke is U+0037. You can use this keystroke combination to insert a special character at any time. Alternatively, if you click the selected special character will be copied to the clipboard, after which you can paste it into your letter.
Close the Character Map and return to Letter Writer.
Place the cursor where the new character is to be inserted.

Hold the ALT key and type the number on the number keypad - not the number keys above the alphabet keyboard. Release the ALT key to insert the character.


Examples:
Character	Keystroke
	ALT+0233
	ALT+0169
	ALT+0174
	ALT+0188
	ALT+0189
	ALT+0190
	ALT+0176
	ALT+0153

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