Alcohol

This lesson will demonstrate how to insert the Alcohol Starter Pick List if your Summary docuplate does not already contain the Starter Pick List.  This lesson will also describe how to use the Alcohol Starter Pick List.

The Alcohol field in the Summary chart section is used to record the past and present alcohol use history.

Placing of the Insertion Point

Placing of the Insertion Point

1.  Place your insertion point to the right of the Alcohol 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 ok for you to begin entering data.

Inserting the Starter Pick List for Alcohol

Inserting the Starter Pick List for Alcohol

To insert the Starter Pick List for Alcohol:

1.  Type alc- into the Alcohol 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.

Alcohol Starter Pick List

Alcohol Starter Pick List

The Alcohol Starter Pick List is used to record past and present alcohol use.  It may not contain all the items you will use in your charting.

Accessing the Alcohol Pick List

Accessing the Alcohol Pick List

In SOAPware, text that appears Blue and Underlined indicates that a pick list is attached to the SMARText item.

Left click on the pick list header (ie: Starter - Alcohol:) and a list of items will appear in the SMARText Quick Access Dialog.

Choosing Items from the Alcohol Pick List

Choosing Items from the Alcohol Pick List

With the Alcohol pick list displayed in the SMARText Quick Access dialog, click to place a check in the box in the "Selected" field next to each of the items that you wish to insert into the Alcohol field.

When the items are inserted, the Alcohol Pick List header will disappear.