# Text Messages and Practical Considerations

Some practical considerations regarding text message composition:

You may save time by using the Windows clipboard to copy and transfer the text representations of messages that you have entered in the Message Planning Page of the Catalyst Memory Allocation Tool. This file is primarily used to plan voice messages prior to recording them. However there is probably a lot of commonality between what you plan for the voice messages, and what you wish to appear in corresponding text reports for those same channels.

If you plan to use data sampling, you may wish to edit the text messages to facilitate the subsequent sorting and processing of the logged data in a spreadsheet or database. For example, you may wish to strategically include certain leading letters or short text strings which personnel would disregard when directly reading a text report, but which a spreadsheet macro would use as an initial basis for sorting or other data manipulation.

The lower portion of this dialog box is concerned with the speech messages corresponding to the message type selected at the top of the dialog box. Although it is not possible to record or playback speech messages from Alarmware™ it is possible to perform some speech message management functions.