Recommendation for those ever-recurring little corrections. - MissIndigo

You know, where you have to stop and type in a "his," "the," "no," "were," "and," or separate a run-on into 2 sentences, add a "She" to a sentence, change a letter, join 2 sentences into one, etc., because VR goofed.

This has been working well for me:  Use

SINGLE LETTERS (T, E, F, and so on) for the very most common words and corrections.

Like T for "the," N for "no," E for "was", J for "has," F for macro that toggles letter from lower to upper and upper to lower case, X to replace comma with period.

Keys your fingers reach quickly and easily (like in the middle of the keyboard) are especially valuable, but choose combos that feel right for you. Intuitive is good here since obviously not all words can use their own first letter.  I love every one of mine. Correcting with a single letter is wonderfully fast.

TWIN LETTERS AND SYMBOLS* (aa, bb, ,,)

Like EE for "were," TT for "to the," NN for "not", FF for changing case of an entire word, // for connecting two words with a slash (fever/chills),  a pair of ,,  for connecting two sentences with a comma, RR for adding a "He" to the beginning of a sentence and lower-casing the next word, etc.

* Not all expanders allow symbols to be used.

TWO DIFFERENT LETTERS AND SYMBOLS  (ab, ba, .t)

Like NE for "none." I should change that one since it requires me to use both hands. Doubles that require only one hand to be moved away from the sides of the keyboard* and feel comfortable are prize. Like "none" could be NJ, except I already use that for "normal." For the same reason, my short for "if" is IK; easier, thus faster even though it's the same number of keystrokes.

* In editing, most people are finding a more functional home position for hands is over the CRL/ALT/SH keys and SPACE BAR on the left and over the function keys and the ARROW keys on the right.

BTW, over time I discovered that I needed more and more of the twin-key and two-different-key combos for punctuation correction macros, which are I guess the most common errors of all, as well as other very commonlly used macros.  Like MM to page down and then return the cursor to where it was.  Like .. to back up, insert a period, and cap the next word. BB to join two words so they don't break at the end of a line.

I really haven't been using letters with the number line and am wondering why on earth not. Strange. There are a good 300 or so combinations possible there, subtracting the few already in use. But if F7 is in use, 7F probably is not...  That break of a beam of light through my cloudy brain recently was like getting a wonderful present.  For me it requires moving the arm a bit, though, so I'll assign secondary functions to them. Like J7 could replace the Home Key, which I find clumsy to use and don't use that much anyway aside from including it in macros. 

Needs change with new accounts, new dictators, new favorite glitches VR develops, and so on, but these can be changed easily. You DO remember them quickly because they're used constantly. Your fingers remember them amazingly fast as well, allowing you to "forget," so writing each down in a notebook as it's created is extremely helpful. I've made a bunch I didn't use that much before I internalized them and now only "discover" when my fingers slip. I also have a terrible time figuring out what a macro is for if I haven't bothered with a description. 

In addition to increasing speed wonderfully, using the expander this way can help improve quality tremendously. Correcting with a single letter or twins is so fast that people unhappy because they're supposed to leave reports sloppy can become happy again and still build up that speed.  Best wishes. :)