Writing similar texts and snippets repeatedly with none or just a slight variation not only makes typing a tedious and tiring task, it also makes you more prone to making mistakes. PhraseExpress not only saves you typing time, it also provides you with templates and great ideas to make your clerical work easier and as error-free as possible. When used in a network, all users will be able to share their work with each other and follow the same rules to avoid the most common mistakes.
The program is a fairly comprehensive tool full of features and utilities designed to tackle all the most common typing routines in the most professional way. Neatly organized into categories, PhraseExpress offers you a clear view of the most common types of documents and text snippets, Outlook add-ins, macro functions, AutoCorrect terms, salutations and e-mail signatures, famous quotes, etc. All of these categories and their multi-level hierarchy can be easily customized to fit your writing habits.
Once it has learned from your writing and typing habits, the program will start autocompleting all those words and phrases you tend to use more frequently using the internal database it has built automatically out of your most common words and text snippets. You can create auto text abbreviations that you can assign to any number of phrases – the program will open a menu from where you can choose the one that fits the current text. PhraseExpress can also combine static phrases with your own contributions for a richer writing experience. A spelling correction feature will also help you to produce error-free and cleaner texts almost effortlessly – it will learn from your most common spelling mistakes and will help you to avoid them in the future. Alternatively, you can import extra AutoCorrect entries from Word. Actually, you will need to have Microsoft Word - or a similar text editor capable of opening DOC files – in order to edit any document created with PhraseExpress, as that is the only output format supported.
This utility is much more than just a spell checker or a grammar revision tool – PhraseExpress has been designed to help users type faster and more accurate in a personalized way. This means that this program will interact differently with every user, learning from their habits and recurrent mistakes to provide a custom-tailored solution to each of them. Add to this the extensive choice of features (both basic and advanced) and functions available and you’ll understand why a certain learning curve is needed to make the most of it. Such a wealth of features has a price, and not precisely a cheap one, especially if you opt for the Professional or Enterprise editions. The main difference between the Standard and these other two editions lies mainly in the amount of functionality they provide, which grows exponentially from one edition to the next.
v8.0 [Oct 25, 2010]
- The new RapidText-Engine™ ensures that no key press is lost during text insertion. PhraseExpress now buffers all keyboard input while text is being inserted and then outputs it afterwards. Now, you can type as fast as never before without losing a letter.
- automatically recognizes your personal typing mistakes. TypoLearn works in the background and requires no configuration.
- supports clipboard functions Copy, Cut & Paste in the phrase tree. Just copy one or more phrases or phrase folders into the clipboard to move it anywhere else in the tree structure. This saves you from having to scroll through the tree view when you want to move phrase folders.
- You can now select and edit settings for multiple items in one go. This new and intuitive method replaces the previous method of generally applying all settings to all items in a phrase folder (that blocked all settings while folder settings were applied to containing elements).
- Macro functions are now highlighted in the text editor and can be clicked to open its specific macro parameter window. Invisible characters, line breaks and line numbers can optionally also be displayed in the phrase contents input field.
- You can now drag & drop one or more files of almost any file type into PhraseExpress to import multiple external files in one go. PhraseExpress automatically offers suitable options depending on the source file.
- it generates phrases including Autotext associations from each line of a plain text or Microsoft Word file. It scans the file line-per-line for common separators between the phrase and the Autotext associations and generates separate phrases for each line of the source text file. It replaces and enhances the former Importer Utility that was offered as a separate program.
- The #insert macro function has new options if you link a phrase folder, that contains multiple phrases, into another phrase. You can now configure PhraseExpress to always choose a random or the n-th phrase of a phrase folder. Another improvement include, that you can click the Autotext of the linked phrase in PhraseExpress to jump back (and forth) to the linked phrase.
- The #datetime macro function can now also shift the date stamp by work days (Mo-Fr or Mo-Sa) and round time stamps to ¼, ½ or full hour values. This allows you to shift payment deadlines by work days which can be useful for business correspondence. Also time stamps with rounded figures like 3:30 pm look better than 3:24.
- it prompts you what to do if you double-click a phrase file. Addtionally, PhraseExpress also offers you to eliminate duplicates to avoid double entries in your phrase file and to merge existing phrases with updated contents.
- If you ever wanted to know how fast you can actually type, PhraseExpress now gives you the answer. It observes your typing speed at different times and calculates an average. Based on your individual typing speed, PhraseExpress can consequently calculate the exact time savings. You will be surprised!
- it can train the text prediction feature based on any Microsoft Word files or your current phrase file library. Let PhraseExpress scan and learn a couple of your Word documents (you can select multiple docs in one go). The analysis only takes a few minutes and you will be amazed about the accuracy of the text suggestions you will get.
- The accuracy of text predictions has been optimized.
- Text predictions can be filtered to sentences beginning with Caps, Small Caps, numbers, or special characters.
- The minimum input savings parameters can now be defined separately for full sentences and single words.
- Much faster phrase file loading time.
- Significant performance increase and reduced OS resource requirements when displaying menus containing a large number of phrases.
- Phrases can now also be sorted by text length and sorting is significantly faster now.
- A new phrase is created out of any highlighted text if you drag it from the phrase contents input field into the tree view.
- The PhraseExpress status bar of the main program window now contains enhanced information about the current program status.
- Quick access to settings in the main program window by right-clicking on the parameters.
- Improved user guidance with interactive bubble hints that guide you through procedures.
- Phrase selection menus now auto-close after a customizable idle-time.
- New command-line parameter -shutdown that allows you shut down PhraseExpress by automation scripts, e.g. to prepare a back session.
- PhraseExpress now uses Proxy Server settings of the InternetExplorer by default.
- PhraseExpress now shows notifications as bubble hints next to the task tray icon that don't interrupt your typing.
