There are many solutions to save time when typing. One of them is speech recognition (sketchy if you are working with Greek). There are more options though. Here are some that I use (a lazy git as I am):
❶ I have about 10.000 autocorrect entries and it speeds up my typing a lot when I use
Word. Many of them are simply Greek words without accents which are accented automatically. Others, are abbreviations which are expanded, i.e. in order to produce the word
πράγμα I simply enter
πγ; similarly, to produce the word
πράγματα I enter
πγτ, and so on. I also use it a lot with two-word expressions. For example, I never type
κωδικός πρόσβασης, I type
κδπρ instead. You catch my drift...
However, there are some bugs in Word. For example, if I type
πγφ and then delete
φ and enter
τ the expansion will not work. To make it work again I either have to restart Word, or add an autocorrect entry by right-clicking on a non-accented Word, then moving to
autocorrect, and then selecting the accented version of the word.
Importing and exporting these entries is a different issue, handled by a macro (I will talk about this in a different tip).
❷ Of course, we enter text in other applications apart from Word. It could be DVX (which by the way, always crashes badly when I try to import my autocorrect entries and is not very clever in the way it handles capitalizations) or TagEditor or any Windows application for that matter.
To do that you need some sort of
Text Completion software (search for the "Text Completion" header). The one I use and highly recommend is
As-U-Type (commercial: US$ 39.95, there are others which are freeware though). The latest version (3.2) has solved most problems with Greek (the only remaining problem is capitalization for first letter of sentences which does not appear to work).
So, if you are as lazy as I am, then it might do you good to check out these options!
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