You can use real words for your key words.Here are some of the benefits of the 'affirmative call' requirement of Pathagoras. The main difference between Pathagoras' text expander' function and that of the others is that Pathagoras requires you to affirmatively press the combination. If you haven't used Quick Parts, it's because it never been called to your attention by others. If you have used Quick Parts, you already know its drawbacks. (We are not going to explain the differences here. And it is far superior to Word's Quick Parts. The power inherent in an call makes Pathagoras very much like every other text expanders on the market (ActiveWords™, FastFox™, etc.)as well as Word's built in AutoCorrect feature. It offers a very powerful 'type and 'g'et' tool for those documents which you have made part of your document assembly system.īut there is really no limit on what you can '' (yes, we made it a verb) into your documents. The has been discussed in previous sections. If you don't already own one, this is a great one to start with. Pathagoras' function can augment text expanders you may already use. Accessing them, editing them and resaving them takes you outside of Word proper, which means learning a new program (or at least a new aspect of Word that is not necessarily intuitive).

The problem is that the text snippets they insert on your behalf are 'locked away' in their proprietary boxes. All these programs are fabulous (well, some are) and quick. Some allow the ability to insert large blocks of text by offering a dictionary of terms from which you can select. Some automatically insert the text without a specific request (which can be a real pain if you really intended the text you actually typed). Other programs offer variations on that theme. A small overlay box is typically offered and you can accept the suggestion by pressing the Enter key. So if you type 'feb', Word surmises that you want the word February. With just those characters, the program offers a guess as to what word or 'expanded text' you are intending. Here's why.Ī text expander is a tool that allows you to type a few characters. Need a 'text expander'? Pathagoras offers one of the best ones out there.

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