KeyText
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KeyText 3.11 is a ClipBoard product from mjmsoft.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, KeyText is a multi-purpose text and automation utility, that can store snippets of text, ready to be typed or pasted into any software by using a simple hotkey press or menu selection. A "Right-click anywhere" feature makes form-filling quick and easy. You can also include commands to run programs, click buttons, change windows, visit Internet sites and more. In addition, you can use the software to automate mouse clicks which hit the right spot even if a window changes position and a "Smart Select" feature lets you, for example, select an Email address in any application, hit a hotkey, and have your e-mail software start with a new message ready. KeyText can run automatically, using the built-in Scheduler to run or watch for certain windows, dialogs, or password requests appearing, and it will fill in or button-click them away.
KeyText can store hundreds of boilerplate texts, ready to be typed or pasted into any software by a simple hotkey press, Trigger Text (type an abbreviation), or menu selection. Whether you type your address in online forms a few times a week, or work at a busy support desk answering e-mails, if you type the same things over and over - save time by letting KeyText do it for you.
You can use its multiple clipboard abilities to make the gathering and re-use of texts straightforward. And online chat users will love the "simulate manual typing" mode!
KeyText can automate much more than typing. Your texts can become like macro scripts by including fields to fill in the date, run programs, click buttons, ask for input, change windows, select menu items, play a sound, display a message, visit Internet sites and more. KeyText virtually has its own programming language, and easy wizard-based dialogs help you set it up.
Now with advanced Smart Select feature! You already know how to select text and press a key combination to copy it to the clipboard, turn it to bold, and so on. With KeyText's Smart Select you can do much more! Once set up you could, for example, select an Email address anywhere - document, text file, database - and press Ctrl-Shift E. Your e-mail software will start with a new message to that address ready!
KeyText 3 takes this even further, because it can work out what's selected and do different things depending on what it is. An email address? Start a new email. A zip or postcode? Go to a map. A phrase? Do a phrase search. All from one easy-to-remember key combination.
Includes unique right-click anywhere method of selecting items which makes form-filling easier than ever. Set it up so that Ctrl and/or Shift with a right-click where you want the text to go opens up a KeyText menu; select the item you want, and it's typed or pasted in at the point you clicked.
KeyText is also smart at simulating mouse clicks. It can click the right spot on a window - button on a dialog or toolbar, link on a web page - even if the window is in a different position each time.
Use the built-in Scheduler to set programs to run, or reminders to display, at specified days or times; for example, 9:00 and 17:00 every day; on the 1st and last Friday of a month; on the 15th of every second month; or on an anniversary each year.
Tell KeyText to watch for windows, dialogs, or password requests appearing, and it will fill in or button-click them away. KeyText has its own password protection to help ensure the privacy of password or other personal information you have stored.
KeyText's if/then/else logic means KeyText can check for the existence of a specified window (or file), and take different courses of action depending on if it is found or not. Or check selected text, clipboard text, variables or a pixel color - and do different things depending on what they are.
By reducing the amount of repetitve typing you do, KeyText may help to reduce the danger of repetitive strain injury.
What's new in KeyText 3...
Trigger text lets you set up abbreviations for your favorite texts. Type the abbreviation and KeyText expands it with the text you require. Use it for boilerplate text, difficult-to-spell words, or even for symbols/accents - set #half to type ? or e// to type .
Advanced Smart Select. Imagine - you select text in a browser or document, press a hotkey, and if it's...
a zipcode, Google maps goes there
an email address, a new email is started
a web site, your browser opens it
2 or more words, a phrase search starts
one word, an online dictionary finds it.
One of the KeyText samples lets you do just that!
String variables allow you to keep frequently-used texts as strings which can be accessed from other macros - or even by other users on a network. They can also be used with Regular Expressions to give sophisticated text manipulation possibilities.
Integer variables let you store numbers which are remembered from one session to the next; you can even specify that a number resets on, say, the first of each month - and use it as a counter for naming files, pictures, etc.
If/then/else logic. Choose different actions depending on the contents of the clipboard, currrent selection, window title, process name, variable value, pixel color and more. You can even narrow in further and base the decision on, say, the first character on the clipboard, in lower case.
Pixel color detection Choose different actions depending on the color of a specified pixel on the screen. A wizard lets you set it up with a convenient "dropper" that locates the pixel and captures its current color.
Regular expressions A VAST range of possibilities open up with Regular Expressions. Use them to match text in if/then/else logic, or use replacement expressions for advanced text manipulation. Examples: convert the current selection (in any window) to lower case; obfuscate an email address; batch rename a group of files, changing PA235001.jpg to lake_001.jpg, PA235014.jpg to lake_014.jpg, etc.
URL encoding Say you have 2 words selected (any application) and want to feed them into an Internet search. KeyText can do this automatically, inserting the required %20 in place of the SPACE character (etc).
Easier navigation with groups Give names to groups of KeyText items, and navigate to them easily.
Editor hotkey To make development of a macro easier, a single hotkey can be set to open the Editor (at the last edit point), save it, or bring it to the front.
Syntax higlighting The "Edit text items" window now highlights fields, goto labels, comments etc. in different colors. Also - tabs in the window are colored to indicate empty, not empty, or changed.
System environment variables can now be included in items, or have if/then/else logic based on them.
Advanced date manipulation For example, you could set up an item to type the date and time 18 hours from now.
New keypresses It is now possible to have KeyText press shift/ctrl/alt key combinations which do not include another key. Or specify that a key be "held" down.
Hotkey pass-through Say you have an item hotkey set to Ctrl-Shift D, but in Microsoft Word you want the default action of double-underline. You can now specify that KeyText passes through the hotkey for specified applications. The license of this windows utility software is Free Trial Software, the price is $29.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of KeyText, you can buy this windows utility software.

