Is it possible to create a keyboard shortcut that inserts text into your notepad2 document?

Question

I've just started learning to write code and am already sick of typing < p >, < /p >, < br >, etc, etc. over and over again - especially with the "<", ">" and "/" in such inconvenient positions on my laptop's keyboard ... is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut that will insert specified text? Say, press ctrl+alt+1 and

will be inserted into your notepad doc?

Please help me - windows help and support is bloody useless. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need a macro-software that record and playback keystrokes.

Answer 2

If I have a lot of the same command in a row. I will drop a unique character and use Find/Replace All. I also use the clipped and quickly dumped a sequence several times.

I have also used Excel and the =concatenate function to take 5000 some pictures in a directory and do the HTML coding on one line and quickly copied it down. I used to maintain a half million wav files for a project using Excel and the concatenate function. One problem with Excel is the 1024 character limit for a cell on the older versions. Not sure if that was lifted in 2007 or 2010.





I had to do a page with a bunch of hyperlinks and just copied it many times. And if learning HTML then you might find rhese useful if you did not already know about them.

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http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp



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Answer 3

Check out Auto Hotkey. I'm not going to explain how to use it, but there is plenty of documentation on their website. I've used this program for exactly what you just described.