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Reduce Your Keyboard Typing Time with PhraseExpress

If you are a blogger,writer or a typist, I believe that you spend a lot of time typing with your computer keyboard every single day. Have you ever type some phrases or sentences over and over again and wish that you can speed up the process with a keyboard shortcut or auto-completion? With PhraseExpress, you can!

PhraseExpress is a free application that helps you remember phrases, sentences or text snippets that you frequently use. It also allows you to paste the phrases in any application that you want. Eventually, this will help you to reduce your typing time and increase your typing speed .

PhraseExpress Features

Once you have download PhraseExpress and install it, a web-based tutorial will be displayed on how to use PhraseExpress effectively. These are some of the noticeable features of PhraseExpress:

• Phrase recognition - PhraseExpress automatically remembers common phrases that you frequently type to reduce repetitive typing. You can use the same phrase over and over again automatically (with PhraseExpress suggestion) or on-demand (with a shortcut key).

• Automatic, predictive text completion - PhraseExpress will prompt to autocomplete frequently used words / phrases as you type. Press the Tab key to perform the autocompletion process or just continue typing if you don’t want to. This is one of the feature that will greatly increase your typing speed. Next, type an abbreviation like “abbv.” and see PhraseExpress works its text completion magic.
• System wide spelling correction - Misspelled a word in Yahoo! Messenger? No problem, PhraseExpress will auto-correct that for you! You can also import existing Microsoft Word AutoCorrect entries to increase the spell checker effectiveness.
• Macros support - Imagine typing “I will meet you 2 hours from now” and the words that come out are “I will meet you at 2 pm”, which is the exact time, 2 hours from the time you type that email.
• Program launcher - type #hm to launch and login to your Hotmail email account and more. Isn’t that cool?
• User content support - PhraseExpress lets you to manually add your own frequently used phrases too. You can add your own greetings, email signatures, favorite quotes and more.
• Keyboard shortcuts galore - You can set as many keyboard shortcuts to any phrase categories, phrases or snippets that you want. Use a mad combo of Shift + Control + Alt + [Key] if you want to!
• PhraseExpress seamlessly integrates with the Windows clipboard to provide access to its history.
• CAPS LOCK lock - If the CAPS LOCK key continues to mess with your typing, lock it up with PhraseExpress.

Example Usage of PhraseExpress: AutoComplete Home Address.

One of the things that I hate when typing a letter or filling forms is typing my own home / office address over and over again. With PhraseExpress, I can save some typing time with the auto-complete feature. Here is how to do it:

1- Make sure PhraseExpress is running. You can see the “a dialog bubble with the exclamation mark icon” on the system tray if its running.

2- Right click the icon and click “Settings“. You can see a list of PhraseExpress sample phrases and sentences, categorized inside a few folders.

3- Click on the root of the PhraseExpress tree-view. Next, click the “New Folder” at the bottom to create a folder that will contain the address. Name the folder “Address“. Choose a hotkey to access this folder (e.g Shift + Alt + A).

4- Click on the created folder again and click the “New Phrase” button. Key in “Home Address” for “Description” and your own home address for “Phrase Content“. Next, key in homeaddress# for this address’s “Autotext” shortcut. You can repeat this step again for other addresses (office, mom’s house etc.). The end results should resemble the image below.

5- To test the above settings, open your Windows Notepad or any text editing tool of your choice.

6- To insert an address, click “Shift + Alt + A“. PhraseExpress will automatically pop-up choices of addresses pulled from the “Address” folder above. Select an address and click the Tab key to insert it. Another way to insert an address is by typing the “Autotext” shortcut. Based on the example above, you can key in homeaddress# and click the Space key to quickly insert your home address.

Done! Now you can use this shortcut to fill in forms, type letters and more. Try it!

After testing PhraseExpress for sometime, I can’t believe that they are giving this wonderful piece of software for free! Believe me, this nifty keyboard utility will definitely speed up and reduce your typing time. Besides the example shown above, there are many other ways that you can use PhraseExpress to ease your typing needs. Still not convinced to download and use PhraseExpress? Check out the testimonials of satisfied PhraseExpress users!

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