• Press F1 to open an extensive Built-in Help System.
• Help is Context-Sensitive. Highlight any menu item and press F1 for Help.
• Interactive Efficient Editing Tutorial
• Over 200 short Visualizer movies,
  linked to the Help System and the Editing Tutorial
• A comprehensive User’s Manual in both hard-copy and electronic versions
• Advantage Software Training Certificates
  good for headquarters training, personal training, seminars,
  or purchase of video Tutorials.
• 24/7/365 Technical Support via Advantage Software’s toll-free number
• Internet Support and CR-Net
• Lesson Player for steno teachers and students

Total Eclipse includes a very extensively illustrated user’s manual, in both hard-copy and electronic versions. Even so, we hear people say, "I don't really enjoy reading manuals. I'm more of a visual person. Show me, and I'll understand."

Good news! More than 200 short movies are built into Total Eclipse 4.1. There's no extra charge for these. You don’t have to download them or have an internet connection to view them. They’re called Visualizers, and they let you see and hear how to use your software. Each Visualizer lasts only a couple of minutes but is packed with information.

The Visualizers are based on the e-Power Video Tutorial "A Total Eclipse Overview". So after you’ve watched the Visualizers, you can purchase the "Overview" tutorial and take a short test in order to earn .6 NCRA continuing education units.

Here’s a list of the Visualizers that are currently built into Total Eclipse. Each year we update them and add additional topics to help you take full advantage of Total Eclipse.

A Glance at the Total Eclipse User’s Manual

How the Video Player Works
Efficient Editing Tutorial Intro
1. Display & Command Options
General Display Settings for MS Windows
Dialogue Customization: Zoom/Resize
Dialogue Customization: Less/More, Anchor
Dialogue Customization: Transparency
Dialogue Customization: Font
Toolbars: On/Off
Toolbars: Docked/Undocked
Toolbar Customization
Mouse vs. Key Commands
Hyperkeys
Keyboard Customization
Editing Font vs. WYWIWYG
View/Hide Print Commands
Color Selections
Notebar Display and Font
Notebar Options: Phonetics, Timecodes
Notebar Options: Steno Width, Dictionary Review
Multi-Document Display: Open All Dictionaries
Organizing Windows: Cascade, Tile, New Window
Spliting a Window into 2 Panes
2. Document & User Setup
The Document Setup Wizard
Paragraph Setup via the Document Wizard
Paragraph Adjustments via the Document Wizard
Paragraph Adjustments via the Document Ruler
Paragraph Labels: From Q to Q.
"Fixed" Paragraphs
Paragraph Behavior
Footers: Creation
Footers: Adjustments
Timecodes & Text Box Setup
Text Box Adjustments
Current Document vs. Master Format
Using a Block Files Folder
Customizing your Phonetics Table
The Metadictionary
Loading and Switching Settings
Save Settings vs. Create New User Format
How to Undo Settings Changes (if not yet saved)
How to Delete a User Format
3. Translation, Realtime, Synchronized Audio
Read Notes
Append or Extract Notes
Translation Notes: General Options
Translation: Add Initial and/or Final Block File
Apply Phonetics & Dragged/Dropped Key Rescue
Set up Writer. Follow Realtime Translation
Pending Transplation Display, Auto-Split Window
Adding a Serial Port
Finding a Com Port (Using Device Manager)
Alt T to Start Realtime Translation
Instant Realtime
Realtime Output
Realtime Output Buffer
Wireless Realtime Connections
Steno Link Overview
Steno Link Configuration
Bridge
TeleView
Sound Recorder Test
Using Earphones for Microphone Monitoring
Audio Playback
Playback Options: Fast, Slow, Squelch
Audio Auto-Stop/Play while Globaling/Typing
Audio Compression: Sound Quality and File Size
Adjusting Synchronization, Using a Voice Recorder
4. General Editing
Insert/Overtype
Typeover Tracking
Add Lines and Paragraphs
Oops and Delete
Find Text, Steno, Paragraphs, Print Commands
Using Find/Replace; Repeating Searches
Scans & Multi-Scan
Adding Speakers: The Speaker Table
Dictionary Entries for Speaker Identification
Changing Paragraphs to Speaker Identifiers
Correcting Speaker Names
Pre-Translation Speaker Setup
By-Lines
Insert Missing By-Lines
Dashes & Hyphens
Mark Stitch Surround
Mark, Copy, Cut, Paste, Read, Write, Separate
Bold, Italics, Underlined
Accents & Special Characters
Page Breaks and Conditional Page Breaks
Bookmarks and Comment Lines
Spellcheck
List Errors
WATCH Words
Graphic Links

5. Mostly Globaling
Basic Globals: Adding/Subracting Strokes
Global Magic (Global at a Glance)
The "Special Entries" List and Globaling Shortcuts
Composite Entries to Unscramble Stacked Steno
Spelling, Detect Conflicts, Default Dictionaries
Suggest Dictionary Entries: Misstrokes
Suggest Entries: Normalize Strokes
Suggest Entries: Integral Prefixes or Suffixes
Text Globals
Undo Global
Where are Text Globals Stored?
Conflicts
Conflicts Tips
Slop Strokes
Prefixes and Suffixes
The "Add Prefix/Suffix" Dialogue
Autoincludes
Splitting or Merging Files
Quoted Testimony
Speedkeys to Change Q&A to Quoted Q&A
6. Head-Turners
Autoreplacements: Type Fast, Prevent Errors
Creating Autoreplacements while Globaling
Macros
Realtime Editing from the Steno Keyboard
“Google Search” Macro
Number Conversion: Overview
Number Conversion: User Settings
Form Fields (Fill-in-the-Blank Process): Overview
Form Fields: Adding a Blank
Automatic Indexing: Overview
Automatic Indexing: Adding an Index Item
- Sample Format Files (with 17 Visualizers)
7. Dictionaries
Selecting Dictionaries and Master Job Dictionaries
Changing Dictionaries during Translation
Dictionary Display: Columns, Fonts, Notebar
Text-Sorted Dictionaries Find Steno Shortcuts
Dictionary Columns: Size, Order, Date/Time
Dictionary Additions and Spellchecking
Dictionary Editing Windows; Undo & Redo
Dictionary Properties Dialogue, Comments
Basic Dictionary Searches
Dictionary Searches: Go to Steno
Contains, Starts with, Ends with, Exact Match
Steno Keys vs. Steno Strokes
Dictionary Searches: Find and Replace
Custom Search Builder, "Regular Expressions"
Selecting Dictionary Entries to Copy or Move
Moving Dictionary Entries
Unmerge Dictionaries
Exporting Dictionaries/Wordlists
Scopist's Dictionaries
Merging Entries from a Scopist's Dictionary
Dictionary Statistics
Dictionary Printing
8. Printing and PDF & ASCII Files
Printing a Draft or a Final Copy
Timestamps
Edit Timecodes
4-per-page Printouts
A Settings File for Multipage Printing
Word Indexe
Stop Printing
ASCII Files
ASCII Styles
HTML Index
PDF Files
9. File Management
The Eclipse File Manager
Windows Explorer
File Search
Deleting/Recovering Files
Copying or Moving Files
E-Mail
Burn to CD
Zip or Unzip
Backup and Restore
SET Files
BAK Files
Converting Files to/from Other Systems
Sending Large Files
Digital Signatures: Setup
Digital Signatures: Verification
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.0
What’s New in Total Eclipse 4.1
Tutorials & CEU Credits
For Teachers: The Lesson Player
For Students: The Lesson Player
Support & Updates
The Total Eclipse Help System
AccuCap: Total Eclipse Captioning
The Convenience Key
Xtra: Définir ou Corriger (A French Visualizer)