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Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 8, 2013 at 04:37 PM
Hi.
I have been using PhraseExpress for 3 months and haven’t experienced significant problems (smaller glitches, yes, but nothing I could reproduce).
Franz
Posted by Wayne K
Feb 9, 2013 at 02:42 PM
I love the power of Phraseexpress. It does just what I need…when it works. It’s been a struggle keeping it functioning and I’m beginning to wonder if it’s worth the effort.
1) It stops working, a lot. Maybe some other program is shutting it down but it just stops making corrections even though the program is still running. I have to kill the process and re-start it.
2) One of the things I liked is that it came with a long list of automatic corrections. This was a big time saver. It takes a considerable amount of time to define the correction for each typo. But in a recent upgrade, all the definitions were corrupted, and instead of entering a correction when I make a mistake, it simply deletes the word. By the time I see what’s happened I’ve already typed another word, so I have to back up and re-type the word it deleted. To make it stop doing that, I have to go into settings and add the correction that got deleted. 99% of the corrections I need are for simple typo’s, usually transposing two letters. There are 100,000 ways you can transpose letters in words. Having to manually define a correction for each one is not worth the time.
3) It does weird stuff and its hard to figure out why. It recently started capitalizing all the typo corrections. If I typed “teh”, it corrected it to “The”. I put up with that for a while. When I upgraded to the latest version I was happy to see that it had stopped doing this. That lasted for about a week. Now it has started changing corrections to all caps (teh = THE).
I know I can contact support about these issues, and I will, but I have little confidence that that will be the end of the troubles.. I just want something that runs in the background and works. I’m starting to think PE isn’t it. It used to put up pop-ups telling me how much time I’d saved using PE but it’s stopped doing that. Maybe its embarrassed.
Of course, these problems may be peculiar to my system, and not the fault of PhraseExpress.
Wayne
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 9, 2013 at 05:01 PM
>instead of entering a correction when I make a mistake, it simply deletes the word.
I had that phenomenon about 4 times. The last 2 times, it was an English autocorrection entry that deleted a German word (why it didn’t simply replace it with the English word - I don’t know).
Posted by Wayne K
Feb 9, 2013 at 08:17 PM
I’m a decent speller, so I rarely need to have a blatant misspelling corrected. 90% of my spelling mistakes are simple transpositions when I’m typing fast. I type “takign” instead of “taking”. I suspect a lot of other people have the same problem. It’d be nice to have a program that had pre-loaded corrections for the majority of these simple transposition errors. PhraseExpress had a good number covered until I did the update and ended up with so many blank definitions.
You can’t every fix transposition error automatically because in some cases the error is a valid word.
My other common spelling error is hitting two keys at THE same time and having the wrong letters inserted. It might be asking too much to have a program cover those, too. There are probably too many possibilities. By the way, notice the all caps “the”? PhraseExpress did that.
Wayne
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 14, 2013 at 05:47 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
I’ve been fairly happy using the free WordExpander, however in some
>situations it does seem to slow down to the point of not being usable.
>It seems to be some sort of a conflict with another software but I
>haven’t been able to work out which one. Windows Live Mail client is one
>suspect, Scrivener for Windows is another, AutHotkey yet another, or
>perhaps Chrome. After a system restart however things are back to
>normal.
Adobe Flash Updater is another suspect. Quite often when WE slows down and a lag develops between typing, I restart my system, and lo and behold, Adobe Flash pops up with a new update…