For those of you who have never tried a keyboarding productivity tool, there are a few freeware packages available but I would like to tell you about AutoHotkey. I think it's just great!
Autohotkey helps you to automate keyboard functions and mouse clicks.
It's real easy for novices to set up hotkeys so that if you type some name often, you can create a hotkey like (ALT+F1) to do it for you. For example, if you type "Tech Support Guy" a lot, here is how you would create the hotkey "ALT+F1" to do that for you just by pressing ALT+F1:
!F1::Send Tech Support Guy
The exclamation mark before F1 represents the ALT key. The following keys are used to represent the modifier keys:
! is used to represent the ALT key. ^ is used for CTRL. + is used for shift. # is used for WIN.
If you use one program or document quite often, you can create a hotkey to do that. Suppose you often open Internet Explorer. Here is how you could derine the hotkey CTRL+I to do that just br pressing the single key CTRL+I:
^I::Run "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
Suppose you open a MS Word document named "report.doc" often. Here is h ow you could define the hotkey ALT+SHIFT+R to do that:
!+r::Run report.doc
Experienced programers can program very sophisticated programs too. AutoHotkey has its own language that is very easy to use. You can use it to create excellent bot programs (robots). So you can have your bot program perform functions on the web automatically while you do something else.
You can learn about AutoHotkey and download it from:
www.Autohotkey.com
It has its own user forum at
www.AutoHotkey.com/forum
It has its own file storage network too. I've tried many many keyboard productivity tools and AutoHotkey is the best by far.