8. A processing device, comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions for implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) presentable to a user; the GUI associating each of a plurality of user-definable control symbols with a respective text based input field of a plurality of text based input fields in at least one GUI page, the GUI comprising a plurality of first said text based input fields simultaneously displayable to the user, each capable of being selected by a user for receiving entry of text data along with at least one of the user-definable control symbols, the processor capable of using an at least one user-definable control symbol entered into a selected one of the plurality of first said text based input fields to automatically associate at least a portion of text data entered by the user into the selected one of the plurality of first said text based input fields with a destination text based input field different from the selected one of the plurality of first said text based input fields.
9. The processing device of claim 8 where the destination text based input field is one of the plurality of first said text based input fields.