#hotstring

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Happy World Productivity Day: You Won't Believe the Earliest Text Expansion Ever! 😱📚

Happy World Productivity Day Matt! Today’s the say where we should sit back and reflect on how much time we’ve saved automating the mundane. I was watching something on YouTube the other day and it hit me  When would you say was the earliest implementation of the idea of HotStrings / Text Expansion?    (think about the concept, not “code”) Some of you might be thinking about using text…

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Maximize Your Productivity with AutoHotkey: Discover the Power of Hotkeys and Hotstrings

Maximize Your Productivity with AutoHotkey: Discover the Power of Hotkeys and Hotstrings

Hotkeys and Hotstrings Both hotstrings and hotkeys in AutoHotkey are powerful tools that can be used to automate tasks on a Windows computer. Hotkeys are keyboard shortcuts that can be used to trigger a specific action or script. For example, you can use a hotkey to launch a program, open a file, or execute a series of commands. Hotkeys can be created to trigger a specific action when a specific…

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AutoHotkey Webinar- Intro to AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey Webinar- Intro to AutoHotkey

In this webinar we cover an Intro to AutoHotkey.

Video Hour 1: High-level overview: Hour 1 Video Hour 2: Q&A: Hour 2

Script Highlight: Minimize to tray–  This is an “old” AutoHotkey script but is super-cool!   When running you simply press the Windows Key & H and the active program will “disappear”.  It works on multiple windows.  Then, when you want them back, press Windows & U and the windows…

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Autocorrect replace text- Use abbreviations to automate writing!

Autocorrect replace text- Use abbreviations to automate writing!

Autocorrect replace text

Hotstrings from AutoHotKey are an amazing time saver! If you’re not using them now, stop what you’re doing because they are very easy to use and save you a lot of time on a daily basis!

You’ve probably used Microsoft Word’s autocorrect to replace misspellings or perhaps the Copyright sign ©.   Imagine if, instead of replacing one word, you could replace three pre-defined…

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Using Hotstrings to help utilized custom SPSS scripts

Using Hotstrings to help utilized custom SPSS scripts

Using Hotstrings from AutoHotKey help write your code is a great, easy, way to greatly improve your speed!  This example demonstrates me using hotstrings for writing most of which are actually custom SPSS scripts) which typically affect the look of output.  The newer versions of AutoHotKey now utilized Pythonfor their scripting.  Most of mine were written in SAX Basic.  I’d post the code but it…

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Text Expander with AutoHotkey for HotStrings with Long Replacement Text

Text Expander with AutoHotkey for HotStrings with Long Replacement Text

HotStrings with AutoHotkey are a Text Expander that:

Quickly get you to be more efficient

Reduce likelihood of Carpal Tunnel

Improve Accuracy/Reliability you use correct content

While HotStrings are very easy to add and use, I take a little different approach when the text I’m inserting is long (over a couple of lines).   Using the Join command for long text can greatly help readability of your…

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AutoHotkey HotString tutorial- Walk through how to create & many uses I believe HotStrings are one of the simplest & most productive tools you can use!  In this