FLAGGING A PERSON TO MAKE THEM AWARE THAT YOU HAVE MENTIONED THEM IN YOUR POST
If you type an @ and start writing a persons Health Unlocked name you will see a drop box appear and you can scroll down to that name and select it. The more letters of their HU name you type the quicker it will be found. It will then notify them that you have mentioned them.
So for BobD on here it would be (type the @sign first) then BobD . Bob will now get an email notifying him that I have mentioned him. Notice how the name turns blue when it's done correctly and the @ sign has disappeared.
IF YOU'RE NOT SURE HOW TO SPELL A WORD
On a PC there is an easy spellcheck (must be a way on a mobile phone or iPad too - someone tell us here please) . If you're not sure how to spell something, write the word as best you can (it will have a red line under it if you haven't typed it correctly) and then right hand click with your mouse anywhere on it and it should list the word spelt correctly, drop down to it and the word you typed will be corrected. A word I'm often not sure of spelling is arrhythmia so I write it as best I can, see the red line underneath telling me it's wrong and follow the instructions I've listed above.
Hope this information is of some use. I'm certainly glad I know the spelling tip.
Jean
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Spare a thought too for the non techies who hardly know how to work the computer.Just finding the symbols and identifying the jargon is a struggle. If anything in these older years idicates I may be 'losing it' it is using a computer.....and the anxiety is very bad for my Afib!
If I ever write anything you don't understand, please let me know. If I'm ever confronted with being shown something I can't take in (which is often), I ask if they can explain it like they're talking to an 11 year old. Then I have a chance of learning something! I've worked on PC's for many years now and about 20 years ago gave basic tuition, so have it all drummed into me, but technology is changing all the time. Everything is so complicated now isn't it, television, mobile phone and even the washing machine!
Years ago there was a great cartoon titled The Pedants Revolt which showed a king in his castle surrounded by serfs. The king was saying " I thought there would be less of you " and the serfs shouted back "FEWER".
Just a note Jean, the @ only works if you are on the computer, or are logged in via a web browser. It doesn’t work if you are using the HU app on your phone 😉
I use a spell checker and it is a nightmare, it often decides for itself which word I intend to use then chooses the wrong one and if I haven't noticed makes a complete nonsense of my post ...
The spellchecks and predictive text on phones and tablets are really annoying. I am sick of having to change x Ray's to xrays . It does not seem to learn after being changed a few times that xrays is what you want to write.
I hate it when it puts the apostrophe in the wrong place. It makes me look so uneducated. At least changing the word to a Wrong one is obviously the predictive text.
The @ sign shouldn't be showing and the print should have turned blue. Perhaps you can't do it to me as it's my post and I'd get your reply anyway. Try notifying someone else you know on here.
Thank you for that, I knew the spelling trick but not how to tag someone from here. Two members recently asked me to let them know how I got on with my ablation and I just hoped they had seen it when I posted. X
Is it only me, but I am intrigued that your message commenting on spell check actually has an incorrect spellcheck in it.
Shouldn’t the very last word be ‘tip’ not ‘top’.
I know the pedants will jump on me saying it’s a typo not a spell check error as both words exist and the ‘I’ is next to the ‘o’ on a normal persons keyboard.
It always reminds of the time I was going to play golf against a very good friend. So in a mood of bravado and high banter I messaged him saying I was going to give him a damn good butt kicking ( meaning on the golf course of course).
Have you noticed that the ‘l’ is next to the ‘k’ on a keyboard. Result, extreme embarrassment.
I have spent my life using computers, then PCs and laptops, and regardless, my three grandsons (six and two almost four-year olds) leave me standing. They swipe and scroll so fast in spite of being strictly limited on all screen time. They know how to navigate and explore and if it weren't for the fact that both my sons-in-law are on the ball I would really worry.
It is the same with the television controls. My husband was incredulous coming home after a two-month road trip I hadn't watched television once; the rigmarole with three separate controls didn't work. My six-year old grandson watches me in increasing frustration and eventually asks 'Can I try, please?' Twenty seconds later, we are watching what I was trying to find. I am embarrassed!
I trained to use computers in 1987 and then they were always part of my working life. Can't say I was fascinated by them, but did a lot of editing and design.
We used to publish a small circulation magazine so I, too, did a lot of editing and design! I enjoyed that, but the problem for me now is (not) keeping up with the huge leaps in technology whilst not being in the front line any more.
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When is ablation necessary
Pain when breathing and short of breathe post ablation update 
Three month post second ablation 
Update to private cardiology consultation.
Exercise and AF: from Patients Day 2018
