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Handy office helpers take the grind out of work

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The most popular columns I have written this year have been about applications that lightened office workloads.

The response to the mention of Page Sender, the faxing software, and Spamfire, the spam-filtering software, was incredible. Based upon this, I thought you might like to hear about some other handy office helper applications.

If you type similar things day after day, it would be handy if your Mac read your mind and typed the words you were going to type. Well, with Typeit4me (www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/12930, US$27), it almost can. Typeit4me stores words and their abbreviations so that, whenever you type in an abbreviation, Typeit4me fills in the larger word.

In most offices, certain words and phrases get typed dozens of times a day or even per document. This application, properly set up, will save you time and finger strokes.

If your word processor is a Carbon application (a native OS X application such as the Hog Bay Notebook below) you may prefer the less expensive AutoCompleter (www.catchysoftware.com, US$15).

Aside from guessing the word from one or two letters, it has the advantage that it is self-programming. If the applications you use every day will support AutoCompleter, you will fall in love with this handy tool.

Remember OS 9, when the Mac had the incredible Location Manager? Those were the days. The Location Manager kept track of all the settings necessary for networks, printers and modems at each location where you used your computer.

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