Do you sometimes want that you could use Microsoft Word’s more useful attributes, such as auto-complete, automatic punctuation correction, as well as Autotext, in various other programs in Windows? PhraseExpress is a totally free program that permits you to do just that.

PhraseExpress permits you to arrange text bits right into adjustable categories for fast gain access to as well as to use reduced phrases to place these full text snippets. If you kind the exact same expressions over and over, this lowers keying time and also minimizes punctuation blunders. PhraseExpress will certainly likewise begin to discover what you kind and also deal to auto-complete regularly made use of expressions.

More than 8,200 typical punctuation modifications in six languages can be easily downloaded and also automatically correct misspellings as you kind. PhraseExpress can additionally gain from your own spelling blunders.

To install PhraseExpress, double-click the.exe documents you downloaded (see the link at the end of this write-up), if you downloaded and install the documents making use of the CNet link. If you downloaded and install PhraseExpress utilizing the different download link, essence the.zip file initially and afterwards run the.exe documents.

Adhere to the instructions in the Setup Wizard. When the Select Additional Tasks screen display screens, make certain there is NO check mark in the Do you intend to make use of PhraseExpress in a network check box. If this is selected, you will be installing the test version, as opposed to the variation that is free for individual use.

As soon as you have mounted PhraseExpress and also run it, a symbol is included in the system tray and also the complying with balloon hint screens. Click the balloon to open the major PhraseExpress window.

You can also right-click on the PhraseExpress system tray symbol and also pick Edit phrases from the popup menu to access the primary home window.

KEEP IN MIND: Before utilizing PhraseExpress, you require to allow it. To do this, left-click on the system tray icon and pick Direct accessibility to setups and after that choose Enable PhraseExpress.

To add a custom expression to the listing, click New Phrase. On the best side of the home window, get in a description for the phrase in the Description edit box. As an example, we added the phrase How-To Geek, so we went into “HTG” as our summary.

In the Phrase content box, get in the full message you desire put when you type a shortened expression in any Windows program.

If you wish to have the ability to put the text making use of a hotkey, choose the wanted type in the Hotkey section.

To go into a full phrase utilizing an abbreviation, enter message in the Autotext edit box, as well as select an option indicating when to implement the command. For example, when we get in “htg” in any kind of Windows program as well as press Space, Enter, or any spelling mark (default delimiters), “How-To Geek” will change “htg”.

You can also restrict PhraseExpress to function just in a certain program by checking the Execute only in specific program and also selecting a program from the dialog box that shows.

When you have actually ended up entering your personalized phrase, it’s shown in the checklist on the left with the hotkey, if one was used.

When you intend to quickly kind a phrase you specified in PhraseExpress, go into the Autotext or press the hotkey you specified for the phrase.

A balloon tip presents on the system tray icon informing you just how to settle the substitute of the expression.

When we typed an area after “htg”, the expression “How-To Geek” was put into the program.

You can organize your customized phrases right into folders. To do this, click New Folder.

Go into a name for the folder in the Description edit box on the ideal side of the screen.

To relocate a customized expression into the brand-new folder, drag as well as go down the expression in the list on the entrusted to the brand-new folder.

The phrase is relocated to the brand-new folder.

PhraseExpress includes a checklist of AutoCorrect words and also expressions that will certainly be immediately corrected when the defined wrong word or phrase is keyed in. For example, if you type “abondon”, PhraseExpress will certainly correct it to “abandon”.

You can include your very own words and also phrases to the AutoCorrect list by clicking New Phrase while the AutoCorrect_English list is chosen. Go into a summary for the word or expression in the Description edit box as well as get in the right spelling of that word in the Phrase web content box. Go into feasible misspellings in the Autotext edit box, each divided by a vertical bar.

PhraseExpress can likewise be run as a portable program. To do this, download the mobile version from the website using the web link at the end of this short article. Extract the files and create a new shortcut to the phraseexpress.exe documents. If you’re mosting likely to run PhraseExpress from a USB flash drive, you can conserve the faster way in the very same directory site as the program, enabling you to copy the program folder to any kind of drive and run it without mounting it.

Right-click on the faster way as well as select Properties from the popup food selection.

Include a space and also “-portable” to the end of the Target command, after phraseexpress.exe, and click OK.

When you run PhraseExpress using the brand-new shortcut, the complying with warning screens, advising you to exit PhraseExpress prior to you get rid of the USB flash drive.

The PhraseExpress site warns concerning a problem with the MS Word AutoCorrect function:

“The PhraseExpress Autotext attribute will certainly hinder the MS Office AutoCorrect feature as both programs are set off by your message input. You will recognize that acronyms are expanded twice. We highly recommend that you import the MS Word AutoCorrect access into PhraseExpress as well as disable the feature in MS Word (see Microsoft aid).”

Download PhraseExpress from http://www.phraseexpress.com/download.php.