Editing glossaries
Let me just start by saying, I started using Instant Text as just an "added bonus" when I worked for my other company. I'd never used a text expander before and it was almost a year before I actually started looking at it as a serious TOOL to be used. Now, I've switched companies and realized I have 30,000 IT enteries in my glossary - and that's not the included glossaries, that's just my primary glossary. A good portion of those, I'd imagine are enteries from doctors at my previous company and account-specific things from there. What I'm trying to figure out is -
2. What's the fastest/most efficient way to edit the glossary (ie: delete all the entries for the other company/accounts)? I've exported it to word and excel and tried using both of those but this still seems WAY too inefficient. I thought about trying to print this out and just take it along with me and take a red-marker to entries I dont want/need and then coming back and just "zipping" through the glossary editor in IT and changing as necessary. This seemed the most "intelligent" way to do it as I'd also be able to take it with me and do it in any "free time" I had away from home/computer. However, even putting it in multiple columns on a page, it still is 570 pages! I really need some serious help! I'm beyond frustrated at this point and were it not for the dependency I've developed on IT, I'd just chuck the glossaries and start over! (but I still would have to figure out what the "best" way to manage the glossaries was!) If anyone has any advice on either of these two topics, I'd really appreciate it. I'd like to get a handle on this before the glossary keeps growing and its far to large to manage! Thanks again. Jessica Warth
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