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Speedy Data Entry

Many industries (medical, insurance, rentals, to name a few) need speedy data entry, but not at the expense of accuracy and detail.  As a result, database programmers have experimented with different "word or phrase" pickers to speed the process.

A common form of this is to build a series of often used words and phrases that are clickable as buttons, which then paste the phrase into the targeted field, such as patient notes, adding the word or phrase to the rest of the text, properly formatted and with the proper carriage returns.

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When testing the functionality of a solution, software developers frequently have to create test records, which requires them to enter in test data.

If the fields requiring a value include a name field, I'm good to go for about 5-6 records, until I exhaust the 'first name' supply that I seem to keep handy in my brain.

If I also need to enter in address data, I'm hopeless.

Pretty soon, I'm just typing in "xxx" or "asdf".

If there's data validation in place, then I'm in real trouble.

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