I think his macros would do most of us little good, as a lot of them are tied to technical terms from his professional field. I know how he came up with them, though, and that is easy enough to do: just look over documents you have written and look for words and phrases you use often enough to make a macro of them. For example, in looking at letters you have written, you might see that you use the words vice president a lot and that you use the word professional a lot, so you would set up macros like vp and pro to expand into these words. The real savings come with phrases, like “in addition to” for which you might use an abbreviation of iat that would expand into the phrase. Basically that is all that he has done. He has been more thorough at it than most of us would be, but, again, I think his list is too specialized to be of much interest.

Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated.

BTW, now that I have a BlackBerry, I have to go through this process in setting up AutoText.

~michael

Thanks for the reply. I didn’t even realise that Palm has a shortcut capability.. I sure hope it is included in the Zire ‘cos it would save a lot of time.

Appreciate your help.. as well as your excellent articles on how to use a PDA to manage time – I’m terrible at prioritizing but your write up is going to help a lot!

Thanks for putting it up
~Kristy

There is software available for the Palm that somewhat simulates handwriting, and it is actually good. I do not recall its name, though as I haven’t used it a long time.

One thing that could save you a lot of time with the Palm is some software called TextPlus. It has excellent word (amd phrase) recognition software. I use it on my Palm TX. Works with the regular graffiti system. There is also some software called TealScript that is good, although it is less intuitive, but it does have some macro capability. Of course, the Palm also has a shortcut capability which you can access and customize through the preferences settings, and it is also a huge time saver.

Take care.
Bruce