| Action Type |
Brief description |
Manual |
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| Paste text |
This action type allows you to paste text directly into applications
and/or emulate keystrokes. In addition, it is possible to include date/time stamps,
entire text files, special symbols and more. |
Detailed help |
| Autoreplace text |
Expands a short string to an entire text. For example,
you can set the string "addr" to be expanded to your postal
address when you type it in a text editor or email message. |
Detailed help |
| Record/Play keystrokes |
Records a sequence of keystrokes and mouse events to play
them back whenever you need to. |
Detailed help |
| Open a file |
Opens specified document or runs specified application. |
Detailed help |
| Window manipulations |
You can close, activate, minimize, maximize, set
the position of a window, start the screen saver and even
empty the recycle bin. |
Detailed help |
| Open a folder |
Opens a Windows folder. In addition to common folders,
this macro can open specific system folders such as "Control panel",
"My Computer", "Network Neighborhood", etc. |
Detailed help |
| Sound Volume Control |
Controls the sound volume of your computer. Increase volume
or mute through one key press. You can even set separate hot keys to
control the CD player volume as well as any other line or your
audio card. |
Detailed help |
| CD Player |
Play, stop, eject, fast forward, rewind your computer
CD Player with a macro of this type. |
Detailed help |
| Control Winamp |
Allows to control popular Winamp player. |
Detailed help |
| Control Windows Media Player |
Allows to control Windows Media Player. |
Detailed help |
| Dial-up networking |
Starts dialup service to establish an internet
or VPN connection. |
Detailed help |
| Launch web browser |
Launches web browser with a specified address (URL) to open. |
Detailed help |
| Shutdown Windows |
In addition to a simple shutdown this action type lets
you restart the computer and log on as a different user. |
Detailed help |
| Reminder |
This action type lets you create reminders: messages
that appear at specific times you set. |
Detailed help |
| Menu |
Menus are very useful for grouping and organizing your
macros. They also let you execute a macro without having to
assign a hot key to it (providing a tremendous number of macros)
and allow to execute macros in chain. |
Detailed help |
| SmartAdd |
SmartAdd is an "Internal" action type which provides
a fast and convenient way to create a macro. For example, you
can highlight some text in any Windows application where text
can be highlighted, press a hot key and a new macro using the
selected text will be created. |
Detailed help |
| Delay |
This macro is specialy designed to be used inside macro
chains and allows to add a delay between macro execution. |
Detailed help |
| Run another macro |
This macro allows you to execute any other Hot Keyboard macro. |
Detailed help |
| Variable |
The variable macro defines a variable that has a textual
value and can be used inside some other Hot Keyboard macros. |
Detailed help |
| Extended replace |
The extended replace macro is designed to replace currently
selected text according to user-defined rules. This type of macro
is recommended for advanced users as it can hold very
difficult text transformations. |
Detailed help |
| Modify a variable |
This macro allows to modify value of any other variable macro.
It provides you with some operations like grab selected text into
variable or compute arithmetic expression. |
Detailed help |
