Shortcut Key or Icon to Enter Data

[Paige]

I have Windows XP Professional. Is it possible to assign a shortcut key, or
create a custom icon, that when activated, will enter a text string into
wherever my cursor is? I'm tired of re-entering my company's user ID in
Lotus Notes, IE, etc., and was wondering if there is a way to automate this.
Thanks for any help.

 

[Stan Brown]

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:19:02 -0800 from Paige

I have Windows XP Professional. Is it possible to assign a shortcut key, or
create a custom icon, that when activated, will enter a text string into
wherever my cursor is? I'm tired of re-entering my company's user ID in
Lotus Notes, IE, etc., and was wondering if there is a way to automate this.
Thanks for any help.

I wouldn't know about an icon, but I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
that category that I have ever seen.

 

[Paige]

Will do; thanks, Stan!

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:19:02 -0800 from Paige


I wouldn't know about an icon, but I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
that category that I have ever seen.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:19:02 -0800 from Paige


I wouldn't know about an icon, but I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
that category that I have ever seen.

I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
second your recommendation.

What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
in all programs.

 

[Stan Brown]

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP

I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
second your recommendation.

What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
in all programs.

Agreed. That was a huge selling point to me -- no more need to set up
autocorrection individually in programs I use even individually on
multiple computers, since I just synch my Autohotkey files.

Here's my spelling.ahk file, in case it is useful to others. (The
second and third lines are en dash and em dash; I don't know if
they'll come across in Usenet.)


CapsLock::LShift
:*?:,-::?
:*?:,_::?
:*?:,12::½

::ae::are
::ahve::have
::alos::also
::alraedy::already
::anotehr::another
::ant::want
::anted::wanted
::ants::wants
::anyting::anything
;:ay::way
::ays::ways
::becase::because
:*:belive::believe
:C:ben::been
::betwen::between
:*:bok::book
:*:chech::check
::coudl::could
::coule::could
::eb::be
::ebcause::because
::eitehr::either
::fel::feel
::feling::feeling
::fels::feels
::firt::first
::firts::first
::functon::function
::functons::functions
:C:god::good
:*:halp::help
::hanks::thanks
::hapy::happy
::helo::hello
::hep::help
::heped::helped
::heps::helps
::hre::here
::insteda::instead
:*:isue::issue
::jujst::just
::jut::just
::kep::keep
::keping::keeping
::keps::keeps
::knoe::know
:*:liek::like
::lok::look
::loks::looks
::mroe::more
::nay::any
::ned::need
::neded::needed
::neds::needs
::noe::now
::numer::number
::numered::numbered
::numering::numbering
::numers::numbers
:de::code
:des::codes
:*pearte:perate
:pearting:perating
:peartion:peration
:t::not
:*tehr:ther
:as:ass
:?*hoen:hone
:lase:lease
:leae:lease
:leas:lease
:lesae:lease
::rember::remember
::rembered::remembered
::rembers::remembers
::rememer::remember
::rememered::remembered
::rememers::remembers
::replacd::replaced
::replacs::replaces
:*:scren::screen
::se::see
:C:sem::seem
:C:Sem::Seem
::sems::seems
::sen::seen
::ses::sees
::shoudl::should
::shoule::should
::singe::since
::smae::same
::someting::something
::softare::software
::sory::sorry
::strat::start
::strated::started
::strating::starting
::strats::starts
::tabe::tabs
::tage::tags
::tahn::than
::taht::that
::tank::thank
::tanks::thanks
::tahnks::thanks
::tat::that
::te::the
::teh::the
::tehir::their
::tehm::them
::tehn::then
::tehre::there
::tehy::they
:*:textbok::textbook
::tey::they
::thatg::that
::thet::that
::thge::the
:*:tiem::time
::ting::thing
::tings::things
::tink::think
::tinking::thinking
::tinks::thinks
::tis::this
::trhe::the
:*:trhink::think
::ue::use
::uer::user
::uers::users
::umber::number
::umbers::numbers
:*:upadte::update
::ust::just
:*?:verson::version
::wat::what
:*:wek::week
::whetehr::whether
::whta::what
::wither::either
:*:workshet::worksheet
::woule::would
::woudl::would

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP


Agreed. That was a huge selling point to me -- no more need to set up
autocorrection individually in programs I use even individually on
multiple computers, since I just synch my Autohotkey files.

Here's my spelling.ahk file, in case it is useful to others. (The
second and third lines are en dash and em dash; I don't know if
they'll come across in Usenet.)

You make a lot of the same typos I do! ;-)

Thanks very much. Since I'm new to autohotkey, my list is much smaller
than yours. I'm going to copy a bunch of these.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

You make a lot of the same typos I do! ;-)

Thanks very much. Since I'm new to autohotkey, my list is much smaller
than yours. I'm going to copy a bunch of these.

By the way, what does :*: mean? I'm not familiar with tat.

 

[Stan Brown]

I heartily recommend Autohotkey at www.autohotkey.com . It's a free
program, but better than anything in that category that I have ever
seen.

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP

I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot,
and second your recommendation.

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:04:59 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP

By the way, what does :*: mean? I'm not familiar with tat.

I see we do indeed make many of the same typos.

:*: instead of :: means that the to-be-replaced string need not come
at the end of a word. Thus
:*:belive::believe
would match belive, belives, belived (not beliving) but
::hep::help
would match only hep, not heps or heping

Some of the ones without :*: were a considered decision to restrict
the matching; others are holdovers because I didn't know about :*:
when I started my list, and have just been modifying particular ones
as they occur to me.

The help file is really excellent, and the topic "Hotstrings & auto-
replace" (fifth from the top in the contents) covers the modifiers
like *, C, and ?.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP


Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:04:59 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP


I see we do indeed make many of the same typos.

Tit for tat!

:*: instead of :: means that the to-be-replaced string need not come
at the end of a word. Thus
:*:belive::believe
would match belive, belives, belived (not beliving) but
::hep::help
would match only hep, not heps or heping

Great, thanks again!