With a patient's chart open and the Summary chart section visible:

1. Place your insertion point to the right of the field header.

2. Left click your mouse to insert your cursor.

If the bold green brackets appear (as shown above), then the field is active and ready for you to being entering data.

To insert the Starter Pick List for the Surgeries field:

1. Type sur- into the Surgeries Field (as shown above)

2. Press the Spacebar to expand the Pick List.

Note: If the Pick List does not expand when you press the Spacebar, you may need to do a Shift  + F11 search to download the item to your local database. After you have used the Pick List once, you will be able to expand it using the Spacebar method.

The Surgeries Starter Pick List contains a list of some of the most common surgeries. It may not contain all the items you will use be using your charting.

In SOAPware, text that appears Blue and Underlined indicates that a Pick List is attached to the SMARText Item.

1. Left click on the Pick List header (ie Starter - Surgeries)

2. A list of items will appear in the SMARText Quick Access Dialog.

With the Surgery Pick List displayed in the SMARText Quick Access Dialog, click in the box in the "Selected" column next to each of the items that you wish to insert in the Surgeries field.

When the items are inserted, the Starter Surgeries header will disappear.

To attach a free text comment to the SMARText item:

1. Left click on top of the SMARText item (ie: Appendectomy - see above)

2. Begin typing your desired comments (ie: 1998 by Dr. Smith, as shown above). The Item Comment box will not appear until after you start typing.

3. Click Save to insert the comments or you can press Enter on your keyboard.