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Word Macros for manipulating transcripts created in Transana Transana users have requested tools for manipulating Transana transcripts. While I have not yet had the time or resources to incorporate these into Transana, there is a set of macros for Microsoft Word that accomplish several useful tasks. You can get these macros by downloading the file Macros.txt and copying them into the Macro utility within Word. To use the macros, the first step is to export your Transana transcript to a Rich Text Format document. To do that, load the transcript in Transana and choose File > Save Transcript As. This will export your Transana transcript to a Rich Text Format document you can load into Word and many other word processors. The first part of your transcript might look like this:
Now, within Word, select Tools > Macro > Macros. If you have loaded the Macros.txt file correctly into Word, you should see several options. To run a macro, select it from the list and press the Run button. ConvertTimeCodes_Milliseconds_hidedata This macro will locate Transana time code data (eg. ¤<19425>) and will convert it to a human readable format accurate to the one-thousandth of the second, and will hide (but not remove) the Transana time code data. It is important to retain the time code data if you might want to re-import this transcript back into Transana at some later date, but people often don't want the time code data to appear in their document.
ConvertTimeCodes_Milliseconds_showdata This macro will locate Transana time code data (eg. ¤<19425>) and will convert it to a human readable format accurate to the one-thousandth of the second. It will not hide the Transana time code data.
ConvertTimeCodes_seconds_hidedata This macro will locate Transana time code data (eg. ¤<19425>) and will convert it to a human readable format accurate to the second, and will hide (but not remove) the Transana time code data. It is important to retain the time code data if you might want to re-import this transcript back into Transana at some later date, but people often don't want the time code data to appear in their document.
ConvertTimeCodes_seconds_showdata This macro will locate Transana time code data (eg. ¤<19425>) and will convert it to a human readable format accurate to the second. It will not hide the Transana time code data.
HideTimeCodes This macro will hide all time code data from a transcript generated in Transana. The time code data is still in the document. It's just not visible in Word.
StripTimeCodeData This macro will remove all time code data from a transcript generated in Transana. Please note that if you run this macro, then re-import your transcript into Transana, all time codes will be lost.
AutoTimeCode In the article Analyzing Orphaned Transcript in Transana, Nicolas Sheon describes two methods for bringing text documents that lack underlying media file into Transana. One of these methods calls for creating a blank audio file and "auto-timecoding" the document to make its text usable in Transana. This macro was created at Dr. Sheon's request to assist in that process. It inserts a time code between each word in a document, with an interval of 450 ms. between words. (You can easily change this interval by editing a single value in the Macro.)
This macro is not recommended as a substitute for manually creating time codes in transcripts for which you have an underlying media file. It is simply not accurate enough to be useful.
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