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ShortHand is quick and easy. You can turn off the popup window,

Posted By: Misha on 2006-07-28
In Reply to: Need help with Word-based expanders ....sm - LTMT

but it is small and barely shows. It just reminds you what is about to play out, which can be helpful for me. Say I wanted to have copd change to COPD, so I have it in there that way. But then I add it as copdj to have it play out in full. If I can't remember if I did it that way, I can look down at the box before I hit space or punctuation and see which way is going to play out.


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