You can open the capture file in an editor at any time during the interpreting session by pressing Control+ENTER. The editor used is windows Notepad by default unless you have the Semware Editor Professional installed on your computer in "c:\tsepro". This editor is the same as per WintextCom's external directory editor setting, which you can specify with the "d+" setup directive. You cold open the file with a word processor or anything that you prefer that can read in a plain text document.

There are two basic philosophies behind the implementation of this command:

You can open the capture file at the end of an interpreting session and use the editor's features to perform any required editing and save it to a new location, such as a memory stick if you are giving the session record to somebody else for processing, or just to a more convenient location on your computer.
It provides immediate access to captured information during a 'phonecall or other session for processing. The location of the default capture file is the same as the default location of WintextCom directories, which makes it a convenient option for editing captured material into directory storage.

If automatic capture mode is enabled when you press Control+ENTER to access the capture file, the current contents of the visual window are saved before the file is opened. This enables you to open it at the end of an interpreting session, or at any other time during automatic recording, without having to make sure it is fully up-to-date first. However, be aware that if you switch back to WintextCom while the capture file is open in the editor and enter more text, it is possible it will not be saved, depending on the sharing restrictions imposed by your editor. Even if new text is saved, it will not be reflected in the editor until the file is reloaded, and changes made in the editor may be overwritten, or overwrite new text entered in WintextCom. It is not recommended that you access the capture file with WintextCom and an external program at the same time, as data errors can easily occur.

When you pres Control+ENTER, WintextCom does not check whether the capture file exists. If it does not, what happens depends upon the editor - you might be prompted to create a new file, the file might be quietly created empty, or an error message be displayed, or any other response generated according to how your editor handles attempting to open non-existent files.

If you are recording an interpreting session for your own use, an alternative to using the open capture fie command is to save it in a particular location for you to subsequently access from Windows Explorer or the WintextCom's File Manager, or similar. In particular, specifying the name of the capture file as described under Capture File Settings, without a path, saves the file in the WintextCom Workspace, which you can open in File Manager by pressing Alt+K, or Alt+WindowsKey+K while working in any other application. This allows you to work on a session record like any other document on your computer, independently of WintextCom interpreting. You can add new interpreting to the file with the resume option when automatic capture mode is turned on, or you can rename the file or change to a different capture filename to record a new session.

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Opening the Capture File