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Best text expander? - Girl4givn

Posted: Apr 09, 2012

Could anyone give me any recommendations for a good general text expander (starting an ASR job in a couple of weeks)? I use Phrase Express right now, but I don't like some of its limitations and bugs, and customer service stinks. I'm really interested in hearing from someone who has tried a couple and has a preference and why. TIA!

I've used Instant Text for years....sm - Old Woman

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It is practically limitless as to the options available. I like the fact that I can see my glossaries as I transcribe because I don't have every single expansion committed to memory. I can add new expansions on the fly and have them available to me instantly. I would highly recommend it.

Does it work in EditScript? - My poor old ShortCuts

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which I have had for many years (hence thousands of expansions) is a complete mess when I try to use it in EditScript.

I have no idea as I have never used EditScript, sm - Old Woman

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but you could check on the Instant Text forum. You could ask the question there, or maybe someone else has already asked it.
http://textware.com/board/itmainforum/index.html

IT7 works with EditScript. - sm

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You should download the 30-day trial to try it out with EditScript.

INSTANT TEXT - OLDGIRL

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Instant Text is great! Been using it for years, and it keeps getting better. Really easy to use and excellent tech support. If you have Windows 7, in order to get the grid to stick, go to user account control settings and bring the bar down to the bottom.

PhraseExpress - Michael

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Hi Anonymous,

sorry to hear that you had problems with PhraseExpress.

1. PhraseExpress is running perfectly fine on hundred thousands installations world-wide.

Perhaps, our Troubleshooter at http://manual.phraseexpress.com#ts already help to eliminate any operating error or incompatibility issue.

If you feel that you really found a reproducible(!) "bug", please do not hesitate to report it to our forums.

2. Our technical support is odor-free and everybody can get an impression about the support quality as we run a public and transparent forum: http://forum.phraseexpress.com

3. Which "limitation" have you found in PhraseExpress, please? Actually, PhraseExpress is considered to be one of the most feature-rich Text Expander for Windows (Feature list http://www.phraseexpress.com/features.htm).

Hope, this helps.

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