Leslie: Glad this may work for you. I'm not clear if you are testing out separate Word docs for each issue per patient or one running doc with many different topics.. I just have one document- lot of topics. I've trained myself to check the document for any pt updates by phone or email when I'm refreshing myself on what is going on w/ that pt.
Leslie- I also have to thank you for shortkeys and templating ideas. I have improved my templates based on your ideas and another poster's.. wish I'd taken the time when I first started with AC. What a difference. That and training myself to type the subjective using "un-sentences"... just getting the message across- not worrying about the eloquence of a full sentence.
Bert: great plan on having word up and running. I don't find Word slow to open very often- rarely it might, at worst, take 5-10 seconds but seconds do count.
I hate to admit I'm not sure what you mean by the native date and time in Word. I use alt-shift-d for dating the entry. I don't always enter a time. Is there another system?