A Walk in the Woods

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Typing faster

When it comes to making typing easier and faster, there is a shortcut to do it, which many of you may already know. That is using the “Autocorrect” function of Microsoft Word. By listing lengthy words or combinations of words you’re likely to type frequently in the process of writing something, and coming up with their shorter alternatives, you can make typing far less time-consuming and grueling. For example, let the function change the “inf” you type into “information,” “bw” into “between,” “ot” into “of the,” “dt” into “don’t,” “sg” into “something,” “fe” into “for example,” “whr” into “whatever,” and so on. The catch is that you have to disable the function on those rare occasions when you need to type the very signs (not words) you chose to stand for the words. What I want Microsoft people to do in the future is that all the applications operating on the Windows system come equipped with the same Autocorrect function as Ms Word so each user can tailor them to their own liking, making whatever activity they do on their PCs much easier, or at least cutting down on the time it takes to copy and paste anything written on Ms Word to any other application. The best way to take advantage of this is by assigning two, or better yet, one letter to every basic word like "what," "been," "another," "however," "between," etc. I also think it would make things even easier if every regular verb plus –g and –d you type automatically morphs into verb-ing and verb-ed, respectively. Although the part of each word you’re allowed to leave out by doing this accounts for only a fraction of it, I guess this would add up to significant time savings in the long run.

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