textpander equivalent for windows?

[mbaaron]

At the risk of being shouted down by the Mac-only crew (and hey, it's a
fine platform!), can anyone recommend a Windows equivalent of
Texpander, the utility currently being featured on the 43 Folders site?

Many thanks for any input.

[Merlin Mann]

Feh. No one's going to shout you down in the Google Group. We're all
warm and fuzzy here :)

I'll beat our friend Buzz to the inevitable punch by suggesting
Activewords [http://www.activewords.com/]. It does several pretty neat
things, including the text explosion that Textpander does.

[jos...@gmail.com]

Thats pretty nice but what about something free?

[john...@gmail.com]

Try MagicWords: http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/

JD

[Stuart Gibbons]

I use Shortkeys Lite (http://www.shortkeys.com), which is free and
does the text expanding part of Texpander/(Textpander?), but not the
autocorrect. I have it set up with a '.' as my marker, so typing '.ds'
expands to '20Sep'. You can have longer boilerplater text too, which I
use for project templates etc.

As someone else mentioned, I'd also recommend SlickRun, but AFAICS it
has a different purpose to Texpander.

Stuart

[ZBL]

I use Shorkeys. I deal with email and writing the same thing over and over
as well as processing orders, so it wi a major time saver for me.

Zura

[GTD Wannabe]

I just checked out Shortkeys Lite. Very nice. And I love Stuart's
suggestion to use a . to preface the keywords. Smart.

Thanks for the new toy!

[Mike Brown]

I just checked out Shortkeys Lite.  Very nice.  And I love Stuart's
suggestion to use a . to preface the keywords.  Smart.

One of the things I do if put "f" for "full" after some of my autocorrect words. If I need to expand the name of some agency, I'll type "epaf" to spell out the agency name, but "epa" by itself will type EPA.

[Simon]

I use AllChars.

It is actually better than Textpander because you can manipulate the
time & date strings more easily...

So if I want insert a date when an invoice is due, I have a macro that
adds 28 days to today's date... I only have to type my trigger phrase
"/due" and it inserts this: 2005-10-24 (Monday) - which is 28 days
hence.

If I type my trigger phrase "/yd" it inserts this: 20050925 (Sunday)
for Yesterday...

Allchars is free, too.

http://allchars.zwolnet.com/