Most traditional expanders don't allow duplicate short forms. Instant Text with its advisories and line number selection offers a unique combination that enables you to access several potential expansions for the exact same short form. In the following Phrase Advisory you can see 11 choices for the short form aatt:
You can reach the 10 first choices by typing the digit that corresponds to the line you want.
Now imagine you want to pick angiography at that time, which is on the 11th line. You may wonder how you are going to reach it. The answer is Advisory Scrolling
Advisory Scrolling comes as a side effect of the line number selection. If you type for instance the digit 8, Instant Text will indeed scroll the advisory until line 8 becomes the top line and highlight it:
At that point, angiography at that time has progressed to 4th position and you can now simply select it by typing 4. Overall, you have typed aatt84 and performed a two steps line number selection to reach an entry that was originally on the 11th line. Note that this is probably faster as if you had typed aatt and navigated to the wanted line using the Shift and Control keys.
In the previous example we used 15 advisory lines and showed how Advisory Scrolling enables you to reach a line, that though visible, can't be accessed directly by typing a single digit. Now you may well be in a situation where you use less advisory lines because you don't want to dedicate more screen real estate to Instant Text or because you think more advisory lines would be too distracting. Let us assume you use 6 advisory lines, your Phrase Advisory would then only display the first 6 choices for the short form aatt:
Now you are convinced that you have the phrase and at that time with a short form of aatt in your glossary, but it is not displayed in the six first choices. Advisory Scrolling enables you to see further choices beyond the displayed lines. Typing 7 will scroll the advisory to the seventh choice (assuming there is one, which is the case here) and thereby show you the next 6 choices:
