Tired of Typing? Use PhraseExpress to Insert Repetitive Text
Do you regularly type the same text over and over? You know the stuff I mean: product descriptions, support info, boilerplate text, even things like your email address and email signatures. That can amount to a serious waste of time for busy business people.
Solution: PhraseExpress 8, a free Windows program that automatically inserts text when you type simple abbreviations.
For example, let's say you frequently end your emails with, "Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you." With PhraseExpress, you could type "tft" (or whatever abbreviation you want), and the program would automatically insert the full text in its place.
For custom email signatures, you could use the abbreviations "sig1," "sig2," and so on, and PhraseExpress will insert the appropriate one.
The program works in any application. To create a new phrase, you just copy any selected text to the clipboard, then click the PhraseExpress icon in the System Tray. You can then create an AutoText tag like the above examples or simply assign a hotkey.
Other features include a global spell-check and a clipboard history tool (which stores all recent clipboard entries, not just the most recent one). The software can even import existing AutoCorrect entries from Word, then use them across all applications.
The new version 8 of PhraseExpress can also recognize and correct your most common typing mistakes, and it responds to macro entries faster than ever, so you don't lose any keystrokes while typing.
The best part about this robust utility is that it's a freebie. If you're sick of typing the same words and phrases again and again, I can't recommend this program highly enough.
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