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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
Views and Zoom

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

Views and Zoom

Letter Writer offers three ways in which to view a letter, and an option to change the on-screen size without affecting the printed size.

Select View > Normal Text to display the letter without page boundaries (at the left of the Letter Writer window). Lines of text are wrapped and page breaks are shown as a line across the page.
Select View > Page Layout to display the page boundaries. Text and pictures are shown as they print on the page. This is known as a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view, as the letter is shown on-window just as it is printed.
Selecting View > Centred Page Layout moves the Page Layout view to the centre of the Letter Writer window.
You can also change the on-window display size of the letter to any size between 10% and 400%. 100% is the default setting. A number of preset sizes are available and an custom size can be typed in.
To select form the list of preset values, select View > Zoom, or click the down arrow on the Zoom list in the toolbar
To define a custom zoom size, select View > Zoom > Custom, or click the Zoom box on the toolbar and type in the size required. Press enter or click OK to change the Zoom size.
In the View > Zoom list, and on the toolbar, there are two further options which allow you to fit the Page Width or the Whole Page to the window. These options are also available as buttons on the toolbar.