do you have a good expander? nm

• Am I nuts - CRAZY
  • No, you are not crazy! sm - Lyndia
  • 1. How long have you been trancribing? - xt
    • Yep . . . I must be crazy :( - CRAZY
      • You are crazy for pushing yourself so much! - momMT
      • Just be patient and give yourself time, you will get - there (nm)
        • Agree---and work on those expansions..it stinks at first - mt
    • **transcribing - too late in the day (lol) - (nm)
  • do you have a good expander? nm - JK
  • You said it - mt
    • wow - frustrated
      • Through your years of experience you care more about quality I bet than quantity - momMT

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One major reason being that it ^*^will^*^ crash on you at some point if you have over 2000 entries.

If you liked PRD+, then you should buy Instant Text because you can import your old PRD glossary directly.  A lot of people don't like the way IT works because if you use it with the marker method recommended in the manual, it will take forever to get used to and get your line counts up.  Just use it in the "classic expander" emulation mode, and you'll lose no time at all.

Why do I like IT?  A couple of reasons:  1) It works with pretty much EVERY transcription platform currently used, even weird ones like the wonderful company I work for uses, so I never have to worry about redoing my abbreviations if I should change companies.  2) It will compile glossaries for you.  3) It's really easy to add new abbvs on the fly.  4) You can edit the glossary using Wordpad, so if you get a new account that does headers in a different way, you can use global search and replace to fix the format without having to go in and change every entry.

Feel free to email with questions.  Yes, IT is a bit of an investment, but I'd be surprised if you didn't earn it back in less then 2 weeks.

Their Expander (ESP) is kind of like AutoCorrect but worse.  Your shorts will not expand with punctuation, only a space.  But, I use Instant Text so it's not a huge problem.

Other than that, piece of cake platform!

Hi all!!!  I am currently using MSWord and would like to purchase a word expander.  I have done some research, but am still not certain which one to buy.  I wish not purchase one that will drain my bank account, but do want one with the capability to have the ability to add an indefinite amount of shortcuts, etc.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!!!!

things to know on doing tapes from an office?  Is it best just to give them a disk and let them print it out at the office like they want to? 

Anybody doing an acct like this?  Thanks.

like shorthand and they have a free trial period. I've gotten so that I can't type without it. I abbreviate everthing from phases to everyday words. on average it saves me 3-4 hours of typing a day  (according to the stats it gives you).

shorthand and speedtype are the same except shorthand is cheaper because it only has email support rather than phone support. very, very easy to start and learn....highly recommend  

When I worked for MQ, I liked their expansion program - it was simple and I added them as I thought of them.  What expansion program is the most like it?  I'm finding Instant Text to be too cumbersome.

It only takes a couple of days to get used to it.  In my opinion, it is much easier than the other expanders.  But like I said, that's my opinion. 

have to do a certain number of lines and not work an 8 hour shift and you can do 1200 lines in 6 hours, you could easily do it in 5 hours with an Expander and then you could work an extra hour to stockpile some money or if you have a family have an extra hour to spend with them.