Getting Started with Instant Text 8 Pro

Setup Instructions

https://textware.com/it8pro/IT8Pro_installation.htm

Using Instant Text

To start Instant Text 8 Pro, double-click on the IT 8 Pro icon and open your Client Appplication. You should now see Instant Text docked to the bottom of your client application window.

Understanding the Instant Text Screen

The Instant Text screen is composed of the following GUI elements:

Expanding Entries

To expand an entry that is highlighted in the Word or Phrase Expansion Table, press the corresponding Marker Key. You can configure your Marker Keys in the Expansion Options.

For example, in the Phrase Expansion Table displayed above as a result of having typed tpw, you can expand tpw to the patient was by typing a semicolon which is the default Phrase Marker Key.

To expand an entry that is further down, you can select it by typing the line number or type another letter.

Adding a New Entry

To add a new entry press the Alt = Add Glossary Entry Hotkey.

If you have already typed a word or a phrase, highlighting it and pressing Alt = will add the selected text right into the Add Glossary Entry window and suggest the short form. Note that you can still overwrite it if you want to, and you may also define your own Short Form Rules.

Adding an Entry

Phrase entries have a short form of 2 or more characters (letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores).

If you add a word, you will see just its first letter in the Short box. Word entries do not need dedicated short forms. In the glossary they are listed under their first letter. To expand a word you simply type any letters of the words starting with the first letter: crdmy, cdmy or cdmp will all expand to cardiomyopathy.

Editing or Deleting an Entry

When you see an entry in the Expansion Table that you want to edit or delete, you can press the Shift Alt = View Highlighted Expansion Hotkey or right‑click on it to see the entry in the Glossary Viewer.

There you type E to edit it, or D to delete it.

Setting up Your Active Glossary List

To open a glossary into the list, right‑click on the Glossary Table to open the Glossary Menu, click on Open and select the glossary you wish to add.

To create a new glossary, select New... and you will be prompted to save it under a name of your choice.

To view the Current Glossary in the Glossary Viewer, select View Current Glossary....

Glossary Menu

Importing a Foreign Glossary

If you have an expander list from another program, open the Glossary Viewer and select the File→Import menu item. Upon conversion you will be asked if you want to add the converted glossary to your active glossary list.

Import Foreign Glossary

Combining Glossaries

You can also combine two or more glossaries using the Includes button in the Glossary Viewer.

To include the Drugs glossary into the Medstart glossary, for example:

  1. double‑click on Medstart in the Glossary Table to open the Glossary Viewer,
  2. click on the Includes button to open the Edit Glossary Includes dialog,
  3. click on the Add button and select the Drugs glossary (Drugs.xglo),
  4. click OK and close the Glossary Viewer.
Combining Glossaries

Medstart will now suggest 1,000 drug names in addition to its words and phrases.

You are now ready to use the basics of Instant Text!

Checking out the menus of Instant Text will show you all the things you can do with Instant Text. Whenever you are on a menu item you want to know more about, you can have contextual help by typing F1.

For more information on how to use the advanced Instant Text features such as:

please refer to the Help by clicking on the ? button of the Instant Text title bar.


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Last modified December 21, 2020