In the PhraseExpress settings, you determine the format for the date. When I click on a date, the date is entered where I was typing.
For instance, typing #cal gives me this popup. Select a date, and the date is entered as text. If 20 is too many for you, you can change the PhraseExpress settings to give you less.Ħ. With the PhraseExpress clipboard cache, CTRL-ALT-v gives you a list of your 20 most recent copies. Usually when you copy and paste, you can only paste the most recent copy. It automatically keeps a clipboard cache. The search services listed are customized you pick what websites you want as options.ĥ. If I select ‘’ then the highlighted text (buried under the popup) will be run in a Google search. Highlighting any text anywhere and hitting CTRL-F8 generates this ‘search’ popup. I can also ask it to open a particular file - #grades opens my grade spreadsheet in Excel. With #md I open my “my documents” folder from anywhere I can type. It automatically opens folders and files. In your browser’s address bar, type #ppt and PowerPoint will automatically run. Perhaps you have your browser open and you want to open PowerPoint, and you designated #ppt as the magic keystroke combination. Again, you choose the keystroke combination that you want. For me, #word automatically runs MS Word, #xl opens Excel, and #calc opens the calculator. You can use it to produce several lines with just a few keystrokes. There doesn’t appear to be a limit on the phrase size. For instance, I could choose $student followed by a ‘Tab’ to generate a phrase. You can decide what keystroke combination will generate the phrase you want. When I send back their graded assignments, I just type #gr followed by a space and it replaces it with ‘Your graded assignment is attached! – Sue.’This is fully customizable. When I type #g followed by a space, it automatically replaces ‘#g’ with ‘Got it!,’ the message I send to my students when I receive their emailed assignments. PhraseExpress works wherever you type text – in email, in Word, in Excel, in your browser’s search box. The popups bugged me so much that I uninstalled it, but I missed the features so much, I re-installed it and sent the company the money.
However, if the program thinks you’re a business (by identifying certain business-like words) it will start to give you an annoying little popup prompting you to purchase it.
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My preference in this blog goes to free programs and services, and this one technically is.
Isn’t there a keyboard shortcut that will do that for me? When I send them their graded assignment, I write a ‘your assignment is attached’ message. For instance, when students send me an assignment via email, I send them back a ‘got it’ message. I feel like I spend a lot of time typing the same phrases over and over again.