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Is Auto-Correct a sufficient expander for eScription? Do I need - to buy Shorthand? sm
Posted: Dec 02, 2009
If I do need Shorthand, is the $29 one-year trial of it okay, or do I need to get the $99 permanent license?
No need for Shorthand - J.MT
[ In Reply To ..]I have been using eScription for almost a year. Auto correct works just fine.
I understand you can't stop an expansion in AutoCorrect, and it has - limited space. Is that true? Thanks! nm
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Yes, AutoCorrect has a limit for # of entries. - SM
[ In Reply To ..]You can ctrl+Z to undo an unwanted expansion but you can't stop an expansion.
limited space in AutoCorrect? - how much
[ In Reply To ..]Do you know what the limit is?
What happens when you meet the limit? Does it just not take any more entries ? give you a message ? knock other entries out?
I have hundreds of entries and have not been hit with a limit.
From Microsoft Support website - not a # limit
[ In Reply To ..]Maximum number of AutoCorrect entries Limited to
memory/hard disk
space
This Microsoft article says 7000 limit. - SM
[ In Reply To ..]If you enter a large number of AutoCorrect entries (for example, 7000 entries), you may receive an "Out of Memory" or other memory error.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180165
7000 is an example - not an exact number
[ In Reply To ..]If you get an "out of memory" message, it is because your computer's memory/hard disk space is maxed, not because of an AutoCorrect limit.
Free up some hard disk memory and you can have more AC entries. You don't have to necessarily free up the memory by deleting AC entries - memory could be retrieved from anywhere.
In any case, 7000 is a lot. Even in the low 1000's is a lot of entries.
You limit *yourself* with AutoCorrect. - SM
[ In Reply To ..]You see posts almost every day from people who have lost all their entries or need to move them to another computer or platform. You don't have to worry about that with a text expander.
7000 entries is not a lot if you use a text expander to its fullest capabilities. Text expanders do so much more to save you keystrokes and they don't corrupt like AutoCorrect and AutoText. Those options only work in Word. I want my expander to work in all of my programs, including email and these board posts. I want my expander to go back and edit text or run my editing macros for me with a couple of keystrokes. Google the Productivity Talk forum and look through the Instant Text and Shorthand boards to see some awesome shortcuts you can use that AutoCorrect cannot possibly do. JMHO.
I have more than 12,000 in AutoCorrect - Snow Bunny
[ In Reply To ..]Never had an "out of memory" message.
How do you possibly remember 12,000 abbreviations? - NM
[ In Reply To ..]nm
How do you count how many you have in there? - nm
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what do you mean by 'stop?" You can certainly delete it..nm - none
[ In Reply To ..]nm
And then it's not there when you need it next. Not a solution. - CrankyOldBroadOnTheBeach
[ In Reply To ..]Perhaps someone has misunderstood the meaning of "stopping" an expansion.
Stopping an expansion from happening is sometimes quite helpful. Speaking for myself, I ran into a case just this morning where a dictator was talking about being "Rh negative."
Since I've worked orthopedics a whole lot more than I've worked OB-GYN, I have a longstanding expansion for "rh" which is "right hip."
With Shorthand, to get "Rh" rather than "right hip," all I have to do is type Rh and then hit the ESC key. Or CTRL-spacebar.
But just because once in a blue moon I need to type "Rh" rather than "right hip," I am not going to delete my RH expansion shortcut.
The trouble with using Autocorrect is that not only is there a limit to the number of entries, I have it on good authority that as you approach that limit, the file can corrupt itself, and if you have no backup copy, then you are shucks-out-of-luck.
Personally, I use Autocorrect to fix frequently-misspelled words on the fly, and use Shorthand for everything else.
Google "productivity talk" to find out more about the dangers of using Autocorrect as your main expander.
Don't understand what you mean by stop??? - kj
[ In Reply To ..]It only expands what you put in. If you are wanting to use COPD not expanded, then don't put COPD in, to expand I use copdd; gerd expanded is gerdd, etc. Phrases can be entered anyway you want them to be. If you are talking about the way shorthand brings up the possibilities as you type, autocorrect does not do this, it just expands by what you have put in it.
Example: Puh is normally pulmonary hypertension, but - the doctor dictates something about a Dr. Puh. sm
[ In Reply To ..]In this instance I don't want my "puh" expansion to work. Every expander program I've ever worked with has had a quick command to temporarily stop an expansion. It's odd that AutoCorrect doesn't.
b/c AutoCorrect wasn't designed to be a text expander, only to correct typos and - SM
[ In Reply To ..]the occasional phrase you might use over and over - like the name of a company or a sig line.
I use AutoText for expanding - have whole paragraphs in there
[ In Reply To ..]it holds the bolding, tabs, vertical lists, everything. I LOVE AutoText!
Ditto to the Ctrl+Z work-around. It puts the text back to exactly as you typed it and leaves it that way.
Autocorrect is all I use for text expansions. Don't have a - problem using it for that at all. NM
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For things like that that I know I have in there, I just - kg
[ In Reply To ..]add an "x" at the end of the word and spellcheck picks it up. No big deal.
Great solution. Thanks! - OP nm
[ In Reply To ..]nm
No. Yes. - MissIndigo
[ In Reply To ..]As others have said. Make sure you get the real Shorthand 10.0 at pcwindows.com. Other programs have the name shorthand incorporated into their names, which can mislead people into purchasing the wrong program.
There's certainly nothing wrong with starting with a trial, but make sure that offer of a free year (?!) is for the right Shorthand; I know they do a trial month.
Regardless, you should definitely plan on purchasing a permanent license for a good professional-quality program. 7,000 entries is absurdly small for professional full-time use, and the range of other very valuable functions severely limited. I'm only an average typist but a very fast transcriptionist/editor, and my expander is the reason with all the decline in rates I still make a decent middle-class income at this and don't have to go back to real estate appraisal.
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