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Smartype Smart Blocks & EXText - mouseworth

Posted: Jan 04, 2010

I work in Dictaphone /EXText. I am dependent on my Stedman's Smartype for 100s of 1000s of terms with which I am not familiar, and to which I have total access while in EXText. However, I am not able to pull Smartype Smart Blocks (which I have created while in Word but not in EXText) into a current document. In the past, I got around this problem at work by creating "instant macros," going into ctrl-s, cutting, pasting into current document and using as a guide. My employer does not currently permit this, and Stedman's cannot give technical support as Smartype is no longer part of their product line. Any help will be appreciated.

This may not help, but will your employer permit Instant Text? - SM

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Instant Text works with Extext and can import your Smartype files and you'll be off and running in no time at all. As you discovered, Smartype won't be updated to run with the newer programs and platforms out there so perhaps you need to bite the bullet and purchase another expander that you can trust to be around and that works in all programs.

Smartype Smart Blocks & EXText - mouseworth

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Thank you for the suggestion. Hesitant to spend money on this, especially since I find no essential difference between my solution and the permited (dysfunctional) Smartype Smart Block.

Thousands of SmartypeSmart Blocks - Sleeplessinprincefrederick

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Hi Mouseworth, Nice to see someone else who uses so many Smart Blocks. This is more of a question than an answer...Have you tried to back up your blocks? Mine won't copy to a disk because I have about 18,000 of them. Plus I think Word 2003 has a limit of how many kb you can have in one folder so some of my blocks turn into 100 pages of letters and symbols when I type them and I have to press ctl-Z four times to get rid of them and then re-write the whole block. I called Stedman's a couple years ago ago and they had never heard of that. Just curious if you have experienced this and have a solution - that would be a big help. Thanks in advance!

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