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PhraseExpress v8, Pro Edition, on BdJ, Tuesday 12 April, 2011

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rjbull:
Another Bits du Jour offer on PhraseExpress, a program that's very well known on DC  ;)

PhraseExpress v8 - Professional Edition - for PC - Type Less, Produce More
Deal Available: Tuesday 12 April, 2011
 PhraseExpress lets you organize your frequently used text snippets in categories for   easy access using text abbreviations.
Deal Price: $48.98
List Price: $139.95
You Save: 65%

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Bits du Jour blurb - you have to log in now to get this  >:(
PhraseExpress v8 - Professional Edition
Type Less, Produce More

You know "the paragraph" by heart. It's the same boilerplate paragraph that you've been typing over and over for who knows how long. For some folks, it's a disclaimer. For others, it's an email signature. Still, for some others, it's a description of a product or service. No matter what it is, it takes you a long time to type and you know it backwards and forwards. What if you could produce that whole paragraph with just a few keystrokes?

PhraseExpress lets you organize your frequently used text snippets in categories for easy access! Just assign your snippets to abbreviations, then perform your work as usual. When you need to insert that huge paragraph, just type in your abbreviation and PhraseExpress will automatically expand it to insert the paragraph! Imagine how much more productive you can be!

Not only will PhraseExpress help you to finish your work more quickly, you'll also be able to avoid common spelling mistakes! In addition to the integrated system-wide spellchecker, you can also configure PhraseExpress with your most often-committed mispellings, and have the app automatically change your typos to the correct word! Best of all, this works in any Windows application!

A couple of nifty extras make PhraseExpress an absolute must-buy. Using the same handy abbreviation system, you can have PhraseExpress launch programs using text shortcuts! Tired of only being able to copy one item to the Windows Clipboard at a time? PhraseExpress gives you access to clipboard history, letting you pick and choose from anything you've recently copied!

Check it out folks, PhraseExpress is currently ranked #2 in the "Automation Section" of Download.com!

Written by Derek Lee

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Note, the offer is for the super-duper top edition and (as so often) appears to be cheaper than the regular update fee for existing users.

Here's the Feature list.  I can't see a comparison table of the different versions.

mitzevo:
Thanks rjbull for the heads-up.

List Price: $139.95 - wow insane.

rjbull:
List Price: $139.95 - wow insane.-mitzevo (April 08, 2011, 11:33 AM)
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It's serious stuff.  They're sort-of competing with Instant Text (IT), which is primarily designed for medical transcriptionists (MTs) - and costs $189.  Bartels Media, makers of Phrase Express, are on record on DC as saying that they think IT is still better-suited for MTs, but they're trying to make Phrase Express more suitable for general-purpose computing.  Given hard economic times, and the tendency of many companies to think that Microsoft Office is all anyone could ever need or want, they may have a hard sell.

barney:
Bought it.

The recent conflab anent Auspex, Phrase Express, et. al. caused a closer look.  Seems to me the two products are compatible, each with a particular usage that only sometimes overlaps the other.  Might be wrong, of course, but for that significant a reduction in price, it's worth the cost to do a real comparison.  At worst, I'm out ~$50 ... at best, I have a new tool to make everyday life easier (What ... don't you spend all day on a keyboard  :huh:?) and more fruitful  ;).  An easy play  :P.

barney:
Of course, there is that learning curve ...  :-\  ;D.

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