CNET Editors' review
While working on your PC, you often do the same tasks every day, such as opening the same documents. Hot Keyboard Pro lets you create a macro to trigger these repetitive actions with a single keystroke. You can assign each macro its own hot key and schedule it to run automatically. Automated actions include opening a document, launching a program, and automatically replacing a string of symbols as you type in any Windows application. You can record and save a series of keystrokes and mouse movements and run several macros in a chain or call your own menu of macros. The program makes adding new commands a breeze. For example, you can highlight some text and press a hot key to create a new macro for any of the text-related action types. The program produced no noticeable slowdown on our PC. Also, Hot Keyboard Server lets several PCs share and exchange macros. The midrange features and ease of use make Hot Keyboard Pro suitable for power users and professionals who don't want to lay down big money for a corporate-level solution.Publisher's Description
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Automate everyday jobs with macros. Set up macros to paste signatures, phone numbers and other frequently used text; record and play back keystrokes and mouse actions; launch favorite applications; open documents you work on often; get to folders including My Documents, Control Panel, Network places; enable/disable network connections; arrange windows on the desktop and move them between displays; control media player and sound volumes even separately for each sound device. Assign macro to a hot key (keyboard shortcut), text shortcut, scheduler, window popup or system startup. Macros can be encrypted to keep safe sensitive data such as passwords and private web links. Scripting feature makes it able to run complex automation jobs as well as to use date, time, clipboard contents, external text files and many math or text functions in your macros. You can easily share macros, export and import them to other computers running Hot Keyboard.
What's new in this version: Version 4.3.40 improves Windows 8 support.
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"5 stars. Copied+pasted from Skype to Excel in 5 minutes"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 4.3.40
Pros
Can quickly make new macro to copy contact information from Skype and paste into Excel.
Done in 5 minutes for over 100 contacts.
(I used to make macros with other Macro software that cost over 1000 dollars.)Cons
In edit sequence mode, I do not see clearly which action is being done on Skype and which action is being on Excel.
In edit sequence mode, I can not temporarily ignore an event (called a step in other software). I can delete that event out. (But, if I am wrong about deleting that event, I may have to remake a new macro to put that step back into the existing macro (I am referring to something like REM COMMAND in making .bat file (batch file), just to ignore an event for now, keep the step but do not run the step).Summary
I rate this as 5 stars because of ease of use, wide usefulness, good ideas and functions for software that cost just $29.99. Perfect for macro tasks. Please keep up the good work, thank you very much.
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