Unformatted text

• Phrase without text formatting and without bitmaps.
• Phrase formatting adapts current formatting of the target document/application.
• Efficient and memory resource friendly.
• The text formatting automatically adapts to the formatting in the target application.

We strongly recommend to prefer unformatted phrases for maximum flexibility and compatibility.

Formatted text

• Phrases with formatted text, tables and/or bitmaps.
• Requires more space in the phrase file.

Use only, if text formatting, tables or bitmaps are required.

Word format

• Support for Microsoft Word specific text formatting, Word macro placeholders and embedded contents (such as Excel spreadsheets), etc.
• Requires more file space. Slower operation as Microsoft Word is launched in the background to insert or edit Microsoft Word formatted phrases.
• No support of PhraseExpress macro functions or functions that alter the phrase contents (e.g. duplicate search, search & replace, bulk editing features).

Requires locally installed Microsoft Word.

We recommend to avoid this formatting option unless the specific Microsoft Word formatting is essentially required.