Smart Abbreviator

Overview

Smart Abbreviator is a Microsoft® Word add-in tool designed for the pharmaceutical industry to support the creation of abbreviation tables. This tool helps reduce the burden of creating abbreviation tables and enables centralized abbreviation management.

The creation and quality control (QC) of abbreviation tables require considerable time and effort, despite their relatively low priority within pharmaceutical documents. The process includes extracting abbreviations used in the document and checking for the presence and accuracy of their corresponding full spellings.

This tool provides an automated process for these tasks within documents, aiming to reduce the burden on authors.

Product Highlights

  • Process Efficiency

    Significantly reduces manual workload by automating the extraction of abbreviations from documents and generation of abbreviation tables.

  • Centralized Abbreviation Management

    Abbreviations and their full spellings are centrally managed in a shared dictionary, promoting consistency across the organization.

  • Quality Improvement

    Automatically detects missing or incorrect full spellings to help enhance the overall quality of documents.

  • Ease of Use

    A clean and intuitive interface integrated into Microsoft® Word allows for smooth operation by any user.

  • Cost Reduction

    Customers can benefit from reduced running costs if they are also subscribed to Authoring Pro.

Main Features

Abbreviation Extraction

This feature lists abbreviations that are either registered in the dictionary or automatically detected based on predefined patterns.

Full Spelling Check

In conjunction with abbreviation extraction, it automatically checks for missing or incorrect full spellings.

Creation of Abbreviation Table

Users can select abbreviations to be included in the abbreviation table and insert the table directly into the body of the document.

Abbreviation Dictionary Maintenance

The abbreviation dictionary is maintainable and can be updated either through this tool or via Microsoft® Excel. When using this tool, the available editing actions can be restricted based on access permissions.

Operating Environment

The recommended operating environment for Smart Abbreviator is shown as below.

Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 11
Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Office 365
Runtime LibraryMicrosoft .NET Framework 4.7.2
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime
HDDHard disk with 1 GB or more free space
Memory1 GB or more, in addition to the operating system requirements

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