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Mac OS X  |  Business / Productivity  |  Word Processing  |  TypeIt4Me  |  OK, but plagued with intermittently bad expansions

TypeIt4Me

TypeIt4Me

Global text expander macro tool like Word's AutoCorrect.

Version:  4.2

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OK, but plagued with intermittently bad expansions

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Contributed by: mmueck Friday, April 18 2008 @ 02:03 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

I've been using this product for over a year and have been at the developer for most of that time to deal with an infuriating issue with the text expansions. I've found the developer to be much more interested in adding features than fixing issues. On the average, about once in every couple dozen expansions (I have a library of over 2500 expansions) the expanded text gets all mangled e.g. the result is some combination of the abbreviation and the final text, or it fails to include the trigger character, or the expansion occurs in the middle of the following word etc. It's true you can really blast along typing at higher speeds (although I'm just a medium speed 4 finger peck and shoot typist), but I'm sure spending a lot of time having to meticulously proof read the result of my typing to fix all the expansion mangling. I also own Typinator and TextExpander and they don't have this problem. The ONLY reason I've been putting up with TypeIt4Me is because it does single-character expansions and the competition didn't. I've been urging the developer of Typinator to implement this feature and he's finally released a version that does it! However, his implementation has a couple killer limitations that must to be addressed before I jump ship, but he's getting there.   
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OK, but plagued with intermittently bad expansions - pablitosan

I agree - this is a terrible problem with TI4Me. I have also written the developer, and checked his website, and see no evidence that he's working on this or even knows what the problem is.

FYI, if your text doesn't expand immediately, try typing a couple of spaces (space characters) and waiting a few seconds. Usually the expansion will then show up intact. There seems to be some condition under which expansion is delayed, so characters you type during the delay appear before it, or in the middle of it.

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Friday, August 01 2008 @ 06:34 AM PDT