Huh??? - totallylost

I do that manually - Snow Bunny (the original)

YOU ARE MISUNDERSTANDING THIS MACRO - macroLady

This is a reference tool, not meant to simply enter the
correct spelling of a word into Autocorrect. 
In that case, your   â��ALT-T, Aâ�� works well enough for that.  This macro is intended to take advantage of
autocorrect to use as a reference, it attaches information to a drug (or a laboratory
test, or a definition to a word, etc.,) and then gives you an easy, one
keystroke way,  to get rid of it, so you
donâ��t have to go online or whatever to look something up.   Think
outside the box! 

I would think my macro was sophisticated enough, that you
could consider assuming I am reasonably intelligent, and just might have
something useful to offer.

Yes, you can do it all these steps manually in autocorrect
but it is a heck of a lot more typing and time to set it up, and there is
always the chance when entering this information multiple times, into
autocorrect to access the different functions, you might inadvertently change
the spacing or mistype a word, in which case the autocorrect change won�t
change and you have spent a whole of time for nothing.   

I have had many occasions over the years when I have needed
to find out what the generic is for a drug (or vice versa.)   This
is why I wrote this macro and why I find it extremely useful, particularly for medications.

You are not understanding this macro at all!   I do
acute care for a large teaching hospital, and I use it all the time, it increases
my accuracy and it SAVES TIME!   And I wouldnâ��t have bothered doing this or
using it, if it was a timewaster, or was just as easy and as fast to do this manually. 

Here again is what the macro does:

All you enter into the first screen is the brand name of the
drug, the second screen the generic. 
That is it.  These are the
autocorrect expansions it creates:

Actosplus Met ??  
CHANGES TO:

Actosplus Met (pioglitazone and metformin)

ADD A SLASH

Actosplus Met (pioglitazone and metformin)

CHANGES BACK TO: 

Actosplus Met

Or TYPE AN EQUAL SIGN

Actosplus Met (pioglitazone and metformin)=

THIS CHANGES TO:

pioglitazone and metformin

If you want, you can add more information to the second
screen as well, typical dosages, what the drug is used for, etc., which I have
done for some rarely used drugs, as well as  for terms that are similar and easily mixed up:

navel (umbilicus)

naval (pertaining to a navy)

or

its (possessive)

it�s (contraction)

Typing the slash then gets rid of the parentheses and the information
within.   

In Instant Text this can be done with the - Display As box

You would have a short form acp to expand to either Aciphex or risedronate sodium

The first entry would have a Display form: Aciphex with a comment like *brand name*.

The second entry would have a Display form: risedronate sodium *generic name for Aciphex* or whatever other comment which, of course, will not expand. It just will be visible for your to see in the advisory.

More about this for those who use Instant Text 7 at link below.