answer:I’m not sure if it’s what you mean, but when I used OpenOffice it could autocomplete my words if I’d used them before in the same document, so then I only needed to type the beginning and then enter. No work on creating the scheme, yet the advantage of expanding short words into long ones. I love bitching about small advantages like this. I do the same in the browser, instead of typing a whole sitename I try finding keywords for which that site is the first hit in Google. For example, just typing “last” will bring you to Last.fm, “reader” to Google Reader (though sometimes to Adobe Reader…), and so on. And I don’t know if you’ve used the new Ubiquity Firefox extension, but it’s great for stuff like this :)