The Dreaded Ctrl Space End Stamp
If you are taking the QuickStep, QA, or Stamper Exams, or are actively working on a QS/QA Session, you may accidentally hit Ctrl + Shift, creating an End Stamp that can be hard to get rid of. You can differentiate these from a normal speaker ID (on the left in the screenshot below) because the End Stamp has a purple square rather than a person icon and number.
If you have text or space immediately after the End Stamp, simply use the arrow keys to put your cursor after (i.e., to the right) of it and hit ← Backspace (or delete for Mac). Alternatively, if you have text before and after, you can try dragging your cursor to highlight from the words immediately before to after it, thus selecting the stamp as well, then hit Backspace. Sometimes putting the cursor before the stamp (i.e., to the left of it), and hitting Delete does the trick.
If none of these methods work, don't worry, there's a simple fix. You may either continue transcribing, adding all the text before the stamps, thus pushing them to the end of the transcript to be deleted once you're finished, or you can delete them as they pop up. Either way you choose, however, you DO want to delete them. Here's how:
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- Right click on the offending End Stamp, scroll down and click Inspect.
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Your Elements Console will open, and you will see, highlighted, an element called: <canvas unselectable="on" class=endspeakerlabel playerlabel. Note in the screenshot below that a regular timestamp (shown here in green) will be labelled "speakerlabel" rather than "
endspeakerlabel". You want to delete the
endspeakerlabel (shown in red).
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- When you hover your mouse over the element in the consol, the End Stamp will highlight on the main screen, letting you know you have the right Element selected.
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- Right click on the End Stamp's corresponding element, and hit Delete element. It will disappear before your eyes! You may then continue with your exam or session.
Tip: If you get distracted and somehow lose track of the element you wanted to delete, right click the End Stamp again, click Inspect, and the appropriate element will highlight again.