Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 42 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Joe Glines, Jackie Sztuk
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
Rating
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Course Overview
Greatly speed-up your typing & be more accurate by letting the computer type the words for you with Text Expansion
How would you like to increase your typing speed by 1,000% ? This course can easily do that for you! Not only will it increase your speed, it will increase your accuracy / reliability! You will be able to type a couple of letters & have it replaced with whole words / paragraphs.
In our daily life it is AMAZING how frequently we re-type the same words over and over. It might be your name, the name of your company, instructions on performing a recurring task, a greeting, a salutation, etc. The list is truly endless.
Text Expansion (HotStrings) are the simplest and fastest way to start automating your computer! Instead of trying to learn how to type 200 wpm, learn how to type 3 characters that will instantly get replaced by the entire sentences you wanted and it will be typed perfectly EVERY TIME! The best part is that AutoHotkey is free!
While the basics of HotStrings are very easy to learn, we also take a deep-dive into various scenarios where they can be more complicated & discuss trouble-shooting "tricky" issues.
Learn to work smarter, not harder by stopping to learn how to type and learn to work smarter!
Here's an overview of what you'll learn
Installing AutoHotkey and a great editor
Creating your first HotString
How to send large amounts of text (paragraphs, entire documents, etc.)
Creating context-sensitive HotStrings (Program specific)
Working with multiple computers
Using AutoHotkey HotStrings in games
Troubleshooting - What to do when things go wrong
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 23 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction & Setup
- Section 2 Creating your first HotString
- Section 3 Customizing your HotStrings
- Section 4 Troubleshooting HotStrings, Script Highlights, and Wrap-up
- Section 5 bonus lecture
What You’ll Learn
- How to drastically speed up your typing and improve your accuracy
- How to type short abbreviations that will expand in any windows program
- How to quickly fill out forms / emails / etc. that require the same text
- How to Autocomplete words in any Windows program
- How to Trigger programs and/or Events by typing a few keys
- How to apply HotStrings to Courtroom typing
- How to have templates of pre-defined text snippets at your fingertips
- That text expansion is your friend
- Why hotstrings are the simplest way for you to begin working smarter, not harder
- How AutoHotkey can save you time after just a few minutes of learning
- How you can create a list of medical terms and have them at your fingertips
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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RRon Bertino
This course should just be a separate chapter for the Intro to AutoHotkey course, rather than a course unto itself. The audio quality is also fairly bad.
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PPaul Blankenship
A great introduction to hotstrings. As a teacher, hotstrings are key to being more productive in reaching parents by text messages and in documenting contacts or RTI.
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NNorman Albertson
Joe is a good teacher, this course gets you up an running with hotstrings in nice bite size chunks--satisfying but not overwhelming for the novice
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KKarlos Boehlke
This really gets you going with HotStrings, I've spent maybe 6 hours total in this course, and I can say for sure it's totally improved my understanding of AutoHotKey and definitely has made my use of the computer more efficient !!!!!
