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Smart Type - lmmiller98

Posted: Oct 28, 2014

I downloaded the trial version of Smart Type and have been trying to use it for the last two days. I think it might work for me but I have a lot of word expanders in Word 2010 that would take me forever to duplicate in Smart Type. Is there any easier way? And how long does it normally take to become proficient in using this program. Right now it is slowing me WAY down!

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Copied this from their website... - Gypsy

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According to their website, you can import.... see below. I am not a current user - I used to use the old version, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE. I plan to buy this new version soon, since I upgraded my Office/OS....

3. Import your shorthands/expansions
If you have a list with both the shorthands and the expansions, format them into a plain text file so that each line contains a single shorthand followed by the corresponding expansion. The shorthand and the full spelling can be separated by space, tab, comma, semicolon, or the = symbol. (Example: rom=range of motion). Then you right-click the Smartype icon, rest your cursor on Import and select Create Shorthand Library from Shorthand List File. Browse to your shorthand/expansion file. Then give your list a name under Target Library. Click Delimiter, select one of the offering, or put an = sign in the Others box. After creating your own Shorthand Library, you can activate just the Vocabularies and abbreviations you want, via Library Management, Set Active Libraries; then highlighting them under Professional Libraries and Shorthand Libraries. Click to remove the highlighting of any Vocabularies or Shorthand Lists you donÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½t want to have active. Keep Smartype Editing Macros. They are described in a section below.

Importing autocorrect entries - S-typer

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What Gypsy posted will work, but you have to get your autocorrects into a list document. I was able to do this a couple of years ago (but I have Word 2003).

I found a utility that would list my autocorrects and expansions in a document, which I saved and then imported. The one I used was called AutoCorrectUtilities.dot by Ed Weber on a forum called Productivity Talk. I see that place is closed now.

My list looked like:
bp=blood pressure
bph=benign prostatic hypertrophy
etc.......

It ended up being really quick and easy and worked perfectly. All my entries were ready to go.

I found the link below. I have never used it but it seems to do the same thing in later versions of Word.

http://wordribbon.tips.net/T009084_Printing_a_List_of_AutoCorrect_Entries.html

Scroll down and check the comment section on that site too, there was another suggestion if his macro does not work for you.

Once you have your list you just save and import per the instructions Gypsy copied (it is also in your Help files in Smartype). Remember to go back in and make that list active (click the red S and go to Library Management).

Good luck!

Thanks for the help! - lmmiller98

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Thank you so very much. I am going to purchase it. I am starting to get used to that annoying little box on my page!

The box - S-typer

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That box can be moved, shape changed, more or less lines shown, and you can make it all kinds of pretty colors if you like that sort of thing! I have tried it across the bottom of the page and across the side locked in place rather than following the cursor too.

Click the red S and then choose Options > Style.

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