Word has its own excellent word expander in Autocorrect.

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  • Word has its own excellent word expander in Autocorrect. - I use autocorrect
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After years and years of using WP 5.1 we have switched to regular old word... i hate change but I know it's time.

The autotext in Word seems to be a bit... different.  Does anyone have any helpful hints? 

Now the fun part begins of adding in ALL the macros and shortcuts...

Hi Hope,

I'm not Emily Ann, but I'm definitely interested in anything that you have to say about word Expander for MS Word expander.  Thanks. 

Alsuz

Microsoft does not make it easy, you have to be comfortable following their instructions or writing macros.  You can just print the list by following the instructions here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212518/en-us

If you want to make a backup and print the list, you should follow the instructions here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269006/en-us

I do not want to deal with drop down menus.  Also, if you clear out old entries once a while, it will free up space although knock on wood I haven't had a problem with space.  I just refuse to have to think of abbreviations while I type.  I have just enough to not to have to transcribe the longer words.  I have some phrases and I also have entire paragraphs, but I do not do a whole array of dictators.  I have only about 10 that I constantly transcribe, so I guess it's easier in that respect.  I also have documents in Word that are just basic templates that I pull from to transcribe the clinic work that I do and those already have the paragraphs inside. 

I also have read that you can make blatent errors with expanders, so you may want to be careful and really watch what is expanding instead of worrying so much about being so speedy.  These are people's health records, it is isn't just a job that it's okay if it expands wrong because really it isn't okay.  It is someone's health.

And while I'm on the subject, I am sort of tired of hearing about lines per hour.  What happend to quality?  I am fairly fast, but I don't like to be too speedy since that's when errors are made and I really don't care how many lines per hour I can do as long as I'm accurate.  I do fine in the salary department.

I have used abbreviation programs where you could alter the word you just typed, but I can't figure out how to use it with Word's AutoCorrect program because it would involve using backspace.  For example, to have an AutoCorrect entry that would go back one space and add "s" to the typed word.  Or one that would go back one space and add a period.  Anyone have any ideas?     Thanks so much for your help!

Hello

I just bought a new computer and I want to put my Word AutoCorrect entries on my new computer.  I know this can be done.  Can someone please tell me how? 

Thanks.
Lynn

Is it possible to copy the autocorrect in Word Perfect and put it into Word, on the same computer?  Really didn't want to write everything down and re-enter, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Debbie

I really don' t see all that much need to buy a ShortHand program, especially when you are just starting out and probably put out a lot of money already. Just click on your toolbar, click on autocorrect, and you will get a menu that you can use to add in your new expansions. 

if you would like to access this toolbar from your keyboard, you can create a macro that will do this.

Sub ATxtShow()
Dialogs(wdDialogToolsAutoCorrect).Show
End Sub

Paste this into your macro editor, and now record a "hot key" macro on whatever key(s) you would like to use.  I use alt-5, but you can use any alt or control key combination you have free.

I certainly hope this macro posts properly, I tried 3 times to post a macro that to count characters, and each time a quote mark was removed by the system, but I hope this will post properly.  I will follow up on this immediately after posting and make sure it is correct.

I've been Googling it and there is some info about going from WordPerfect to Word, but I can't find anything about importing them from Word to WordPerfect.

I just got really screwy account where we have to transcribe the reports in WordPerfect to get the line count, then save them in Word to send to the client. 

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I use PCShorthand.com and I really like it; not only is the price $89.00 it has everything you will ever want and need for a word expander.  It works with MS Word also.