Typing aid to reduce number of keystrokes you need to type
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Try Udemy for Business- Type short abbreviations that will expand in any windows program
- Quickly fill out forms / emails / etc. that require the same text
- Autocomplete words in any Windows program
- Trigger programs / Events by typing a few keys
- Windows / PC user at a beginner level
How would you like to increase your typing speed by 1,000% ? This course can easily do that for you! Not only will it increase your speed, it will increase your accuracy / reliability! You will be able to type a couple of letters & have it replaced with whole words / paragraphs.
In our daily life it is AMAZING how frequently we re-type the same words over and over. It might be your name, the name of your company, instructions on performing a recurring task, a greeting, a salutation, etc. The list is truly endless.
Text Expansion (HotStrings) are the simplest and fastest way to start automating your computer! Instead of trying to learn how to type 200 wpm, learn how to type 3 characters that will instantly get replaced by the entire sentences you wanted and it will be typed perfectly EVERY TIME!
While the basics of HotStrings are very easy to learn, we also take a deep-dive into various scenarios where they can be more complicated & discuss trouble-shooting "tricky" issues.
Learn to work smarter, not harder by stopping to learn how to type and learn to work smarter!
- People that wish to be more productive & efficient
- People that enter the same data/text over and over
- People wanting to focus on work that matters, not the mundane
- Data entry employees
- People working in offices needing very specific text
This lecture introduces HotStrings and gives a few examples how you can leverage them in virtually any Windows-based program. HotStrings are similar to autocorrect on your phone however you provide the text you want to be inserted.
In this lecture we review where to download AutoHotkey from and what version we recommend. Unicode 32 bit is the recommended version as it will allow for Unicode characters and work well with most programs.
In this session we discuss various IDEs / Editors for AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey uses plain text thus you could use notepad to edit your files however the Intellisense (color highlighting) and Calltips (code suggestions) are extremely helpful!
We used SciTE4AutoHotkey in our tutorials however AHK Studio & Notepad++ are just as strong editors.
This session we discuss the basics you want to have in your HotString script. The following three lines are the code you most-likely want to have in your initial file.
#SingleInstance, Force ;ensure only 1 version of this script will be run at a time
#Persistent ;Don't automatically exit
#NoEnv ;No Envoronment (saves memory)
In this session we talk through the concept of having your HotStrings in one file verse individual files. If you plan to create content you'll share withe colleagues, you might want to use multiple files. If you are only going to use them yourself then one is fine.
There are some characters that AutoHotkey reserves for special actions. This lecture we review special characters and how to send them. You can also send things as "raw" by adding an "r" in between the first two colons.
We also switch to using a HotKey to reload the script. In the example it is the "Browser_forward" key (which you may/may not have on your keyboard). It can be really any key (or a combination of keys) but you want something that is convenient/easy for you to hit. In this example, when you hit it, it triggers the "reload" command and reloads the script for me.
Windows 7, 8, and 10 have the User Access Control which is Microsoft feature that reduces the risk of programs hijacking your computer. We do NOT recommend you turn it off (however you might disable it as a quick test to prove it is the cause of your issue).
The code shared in the video to elevate your script is as follows:
;**********The script needs to be run at an elevated level- this takes care of that*****
if not A_IsAdmin ;http://ahkscript.org/docs/Variables.htm#IsAdmin
{
Run *RunAs "%A_ScriptFullPath%" ; Requires v1.0.92.01+
ExitApp
}