Does anyone know of a program that will allow you to creat text shortcuts? For example, if you type 'ms' it would enter 'Microsoft'. My old Treo used to have this functionality and it was great. It really helped my typing speed.

Not sure what you mean but you can create these kind of shortcuts:

All you do is create a *.txt doc and put in the shortcut info in and than rename the extention .txt doc to .lnk, than copy the shortcut to your device

Control Panel
Connections:
Beam: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,15,0?shellres.dll,-13910
Bluetooth: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,23,0?shellres.dll,-13909
Connections: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,19,0?shellres.dll,-13953
Network cards: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,17,0?shellres.dll,-13888
Personal:
Buttons: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,12,0?shellres.dll,-13944
Input: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,8,0?shellres.dll,-13936
Lock: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,1,0?shellres.dll,-13942
Menus: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,11,0?shellres.dll,-13937
Owner Info: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,2,0?shellres.dll,-13841
Phone: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,20,0?shellres.dll,-13954
Sounds: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,9,0?shellres.dll,-13924
Today: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,13,0?shellres.dll,-13952
System:
Back Light" 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,6,0?shellres.dll,-13902
about: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,5,0?shellres.dll,-13899
Certificates: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,22,0?shellres.dll,-13941
Clock n Alarm: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,16,0?shellres.dll,-13840
Error Reporting: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,24,0?shellres.dll,-13997
Memory: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,4,0?shellres.dll,-13900
Power: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,3,0?shellres.dll,-13895
Regional Settings: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,18,0?shellres.dll,-13901
Remove Programs: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,10,0?shellres.dll,-13943
Screen: 8#"ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl,7,0?shellres.dll,-13906

*additional info:
You might've noticed, there're 2 number delimited by comma in every shortcut. Eg. Bluetooth, the 2 numbers are "23,0". The first number is the id for Bluetooth, while the second number is the tab's id. If you open up the bluetooth setting, you will see 3 tabs: Mode, Devices, and COM Ports. 0 is for the first tab, 1 is for the second, and so on. So if you wish to open up Bluetooth and point straight to the Devices tab, just change it to "23,1".


SMS & Mail
SMS list view: 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "SMS"
New SMS: 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "SMS" -to "" -body ""
Email list view: 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "Name of email account"
New Email: 20#"\Windows\tmail.exe"-service "Name of email account" -to "" -body ""

*additional info:
The name for the default "Outlook" account is "ActiveSync" (case sensitive). To open up your own email account, make sure you type the exact name inside the quotes, including symbols and punctuations if necessary (case sensitive, too).


Phone Dialer
Phone dialer: 20#"\Windows\cprog.exe"
Prompt to call 1234567: 20#"\Windows\cprog.exe"-url tel: 1234567
*some phones use vtkey.exe instead of cprog.exe. I believe cprog.exe is used by Atoms only.

Important:
1) make sure you encase the path with quotes. eg. "\Windows\cprog.exe"
2) make sure there is no space between the path and the parameters. eg. "ctlpnl"cplmain.cpl
3) the number preceding the # character is the length of the path including the quotes (" "). eg. The length of "\Windows\cprog.exe" is 20.

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Mark

Thanks for the reply but not really what I was looking for. What I am looking for is text shortcuts for typing. For example, if I am typing an email and I don't want to type the name of my company everytime, I could enter "AC" and it would replace it with "ACME". Another one I used to use frequently was replace "W" with "With"; "dr" for "Doctor", etc, etc. These were real typing time-savers on my Treo.

I like "Tap Text", it puts a little icon in your top bar that when you tap opens up a list of text shortcuts you create in the program that you enter just by tapping on it.

Ok, I must not be explaining myself well. I don't want shortcuts to any programs. I want a shorthand method of entering words when I type...similiar to my old Treo functionality. ONLY FOR TYPING EMAILS OR MEMO's. On the Treo, when I typed "pn" and pressed the space key, it would automatically enter my phone number or when I typed "w" followed by the space key it would enter "with"..."bc" would be replaced with "because". There were standard shortcuts plus functionality to create your own. Good examples would be shortcuts for your name, company name, frequently used words and phrases.

Oops, I guess I wasn't clear in my answer as well. With tap text, you create a list of frequently used phrases or words or passwords (it can be any text) and enter it in two taps: first you tap the icon at the top of your screen and then you tap the phrase you want.

not that i have an answer, but just to help others; he's basically looking for a standalone app like MS Word's "autocorrect" feature on PCs

I know Phatware Caligrapher will do basic text expansion and much, much more.

I think Transcriber that comes on the i730 will also do basic text expansion it is called shorthand in transcriber.

Dax

Thanks but neither of these options work with the keyboard. The Transcriber Shorthand is the functionality I want but need to use it with the keyboard.

I am losing hope there is something out there. If I had more time and knowledge, I would create a product to do this.

Does anyone know what other parameters cprog.exe accept?