Do you have fries with that?

• What is everyone else having for dinner? - Hungry
  • Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, beef gravy, fried okra. - DubyaGal nm
  • Ham, broccoli and cheese casserole. - nm
  • Turkey burgers on the Foreman grill. nm - Rachel
  • Homemade meatball subs (quick and easy). - Mainer
    • I am having the same thing, do it a little different, but same ingredients. Cool! nm - Phillygirl
  • meat loaf, Mrs.T's pierogies, beets - lm
    • MMMM, I love pierogies, beets, and meatloaf. - Can I come over?
      • Sure, come on over. We're getting a break in the heat today. - lm
  • BBQ burgers and hot dogs, corn on the cob, Bush's baked beans, and potato salad. - hubby's cooking again
  • son cooking steak and shrimp - dls
  • .....served up in a dirty ashtray.... - mmmmmm
  • Where in the world do you live?? - It's 96 degrees where I am!
  • feces sammich - sally
    • Ewww. Not a nice answer. - nm
      • I agree. - nm.
    • Do you have fries with that? - NM

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Often I "find" things in IT that I did not realize I had in there by just glancing when I am typing something that I feel should have an expansion.

The marker keys are a challenge to get used to, I couldn't use spacebar because I was using DQS when I got IT, so I also have my old Autocorrect still active and that works on the spacebar.  I use semi and backslash for my markers - I think.  The muscle memory is so old that I truly can't remember, it just happens.

I agree with the poster who said to work on one thing at a time and once you notice that it has become easy to do without any thought then move onto something else.  I started with working on the phrase side because it is the biggest bang for your buck - more characters with fewer keystrokes. 

I think the key to being successful with IT after the learning curve is finding a rhythm and just keep filling it up with expansions that make sense to you so you don't have to search for them.  I often use the first two words of a long phrase as the short form because it will show up if I start typing it and I can just marker the rest of it in.

I wish you good luck figuring it out and would encourage you to stick with it and find your own tricks to it, as I think it really makes a difference in the fatigue factor, which is more important some days than line count.

I think someone mentioned Productivity Talk and the IT website, which both have lots of tips and tricks too.

Kelli