![]() If your system crashes you are SOL and have to BUY the program AGAIN. You get a ONE-TIME activation code period. If you pay $189 to download IT PRO 7 - they will not give you a disk to ever reload the program or a software key. That being said, it's not worth the price or the new "downloading" scam they have going. Instant Text is a good program, and I have used it for years. You don't think about them any more than you wonder where the M key is. The most commonly used shorts (hundreds of them) become muscle memory after a while, anyway. (Pronouns, connecting verbs, etc., are given the shortest abbreviations, though, not even long enough to have a pattern, because they're so common, so h is her, k is she, wb is will be, etc.) Mine's always closed so my eyes can keep scanning the page without distraction. I made all my shorts to patterns so I only have to remember the pattern to know what the short will be. You know, your WPM x2? Which is why I'm always surprised to learn some people aren't using one.īTW, that "annoying" window you're supposed to choose words from for the expander to type? SH/ST's can be open or closed, so I imagine IT's can too. HOWEVER, I understand a separate program (don't remember the name) can be used to build dictionaries for SH/ST, should you wish to later on.Īs for getting faster? On accounts I'm familiar with, so have shorts for all the names and usual phrases, etc., it doubles my typing speed. It took me years to build mine, so if I were starting now I'd probably choose IT for that feature (even though now I'd never give up SH and my custom ones for IT) but if you don't want to invest a bit more time getting up to speed, at least dump that mickey-mouse little AC for Shorthand. It'll make entries for you, based on what it sees you type repetitively-a very considerable benefit. Promise! I chose it originally because at that time I could use the non-letter characters in short forms in SH and couldn't in IT. JMO.ĬMT, Shorthand/SpeedType has a very short learning - curve and is infinitely better than ĪutoCorrect. I wish you luck in your choice, but I would not recommend IT to anyone. I now use Shorthand for Windows v.10 and love it. I felt it was a useless program, hindered my work production, and was NOT worth what it cost. still hate it, and the whole CD program just got tossed into the garbage, along with my other useless programs and no longer up to date programs that were clogging up my cabinet space. to me, I found the whole system to be cumbersome and slow, and ANNOYING! I could type on my own far faster than having to choose which version of whatever word I was trying to type in the first place. You can add your own words and phrases to this library as well. ![]() Whenever you start to type a word that may be in their "library", the bottom portion opens up and you are given a multiple choice of listings of various versions of whatever you were trying to type, and you choose which multiple choice you want.a, b, c, etc. It has its own prebuilt "library" of commonly used medical words and abbreviations. It has a system that "docks" with your Word program, mostly at the bottom of the screen, but i guess you can put it wherever you want to, although I never got that far with it. I hated it from the minute it was installed on my computer. I had purchased the full version several years ago - due to everybody saying how great it was I believe you can go to the Instant Text website and download a "trial." I would suggest giving it a try and seeing for yourself if it is something you would find helpful. I can't say for sure as I haven't started speech/editing yet, but I can see where it would be less effective in that application. Not that it is a bad thing or a useless thing, but maybe just not as useful. As poster above mentioned, with speech wreck/editing, I'm not sure any text expansion program is going to be as effective. ![]() I don't think it made a drastic change in my production, but I would say it definitely helped and it is just more user friendly for me.Īll that said, right now I am working straight transcription and no speech wreck. I remained at my usual speed and slowly increased. However, during that time of learning it and building my own library of entries, it did not slow me down at all. It did take me some time to build my own library. I did not find it particularly hard to learn once I got going on it and got my own entries entered into it. I would say that if you have the full version and utilize the full features, it is wonderful! I use it at work, and they did not purchase a package with all of the features included, but I ended up purchasing it for myself for home/personal use. InstantText just makes more sense to my brain. I came from AutoText/AutoCorrect to InstantText. ![]() I use InstantText very heavily, and I like it. ![]()
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