Starting with Office ‘97 (I think), Microsoft introduced a feature called autocorrect — a realtime spellchecker that automatically corrects common misspellings and other typos that touch typists often make — like “teh” instead of “the” and things like that.
But, since it is so easy to add to the list, I have created whole list of abbreviations — a homegrown shorthand if you will — that are “corrected” transparently, with no special software. Some of them are:
- t “corrected” to the
- ot “corrected” to of the
- fr “corrected” to from
- bec “corrected” to because
- …many more
on May 27th, 2004 at 10:20 pm
So, show us the “many more” already!
on Mar 2nd, 2005 at 4:00 pm
David,
I would like a copy of your entire list. I could see this also used with other systems that have abbreviation expansion as a primary encoding strategy, e.g. DynaWrite, EZ Keys, LightWriter.
on Mar 8th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
I use AutoCorrect in the same way. I have hundreds of “quickwords” as we call them. I am a medical transcriptionist, and this saves hours of typing. I have some trouble, though. I’ve tried to copy my autocorrect file to my home computer but can’t get it to work. Any suggestions?