Free AutoHotkey Book!
AutoHotkey
Tricks You Ought to Do with Windows
(Sixth Edition)
As well as offering insight into a number of useful AutoHotkey techniques, AutoHotkey Tricks acts as a free companion reference for anyone who already owns one or more of the ComputorEdge AutoHotkey books (or someone who just wants to know more about what's inside those books). AutoHotkey Tricks includes the complete Table of Contents and detailed Book Indexes for each of the seven main AutoHotkey books found at ComputorEdge E-Books:
A Beginner's
Guide to AutoHotkey- Digging Deeper Into AutoHotkey
- Beginning AutoHotkey Hotstrings
- AutoHotkey Applications
- A Beginner's Guide to Using Regular Expressions in AutoHotkey
- AutoHotkey Hotkeys Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
- Beginning Tips for Writing AutoHotkey Scripts
- Jack's Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips
(May 10, 2020 Update: The eighth book, Jack's Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips, is now available at ComputorEdge E-Books. The Table of Contents and Index to Jack's Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips are now included in this Sixth Edition of AutoHotkey Tricks. After release, the book Tricks will be available here and continue to be free. New! A special deal for the Ten Book ComputorEdge AutoHotkey Library!)
Everyone should be using AutoHotkey with their Windows computer. Some people don't because it seems too hard. (It's not!) Some won't bother because they're content with the way Windows works now. (Really?) But there are a number of simple things that anyone can do with AutoHotkey on their Windows computer which can make a huge difference to their computing experience, such as adding a tailored signature to any document, e-mail, or Web editing field at the stroke of a hotkey combination. Or, insert special characters such as the £ sign or ® symbol which aren't on the keyboard to anything without looking up the code. Maybe you want to instantly search your favorite Web site without first loading your Web browser, opening Google, then navigating to the page. All of these AutoHotkey techniques can be found in the e-book AutoHotkey Tricks You Ought to Do with Windows.
While the book AutoHotkey Tricks does not delve into the full power of the free Open Source software, it does offer those simpler tasks which use the most basic functions of AutoHotkey to make things easier on your Windows computer. Most of the book's sugestions are offered at a beginning knowledge level and only occasionally venture into slightly more advanced topics. Anyone who can open Notepad on their computer and save a file should be able to pick up this book and immediately implement most of the techniques discussed.
Download your free copy of the e-book from the links above and share it with your friends. Find out why AutoHotkey is absolutely the best free Windows utility software ever! You'll be glad you did.
What's Inside This Free AutoHotkey E-Book?
Chapter
One: Add Tailored Signatures to All E-mail and Documents
“If
you do nothing else, use AutoHotkey to put your signature in every
document, blog, and e-mail.”
Add your formated signature (with e-mail and Web site)
to any document, Web page response, or e-mail with easy one-line
AutoHotkey scripts. Plus, instantly enter your e-mail address anywhere
(no matter how long it is).
Chapter
Two: Use AutoHotkey to Instantly Insert Your E-Mail Address into Web
Forms
“If
you do nothing else, shorten your e-mail address to a simple hotkey or
hotstring.”
It can be a pain to type long, convoluted e-mail
addresses. Use AutoHotkey to instantly add yours and maybe your
password too.
Chapter
Three: Use AutoHotkey to Instantly Turn Hard-to-Type Jargon into
Hotstrings
“If
you do nothing else, use AutoHotkey to instantly turn hard-to-type
jargon into hotstrings.”
Most people have specialized vocabulary in their
occupation. Use short hotstrings to add those terms to any document
easy without spelling or type hassles.
Chapter
Four: Adding Currencies, Special Symbols and Fractions Chapter
Five: Searching Web Sites Made Easy Chapter
Six: Hotkeys to Save Right-clicks Chapter
Seven: Quickly Open Favorite Folders Chapter
Eight: Using Extra Mouse Buttons and the Wasted Insert Key Chapter
Nine: A Beginner's Guide to Stealing AutoHotkey Apps Chapter
Ten: AutoHotkey Versus AutoIt
“If
you do nothing else, use AutoHotkey to add the special characters you
want to your keyboard.”
While there are other ways to add foreign currency
symbols and special characters to your documents, files, and Web edits,
nothing is easier than AutoHotkey.
“Make
searching your favorite Web site easy with AutoHotkey.”
Anyone
can put this simple AutoHotkey script to good use for quickly searching
their favorite Web site.
“Using
the same right-click menu repeatedly? Protect from Carpal Tunnel with
this AutoHotkey tip.”
If
you have a right-click menu that you use over and over again, then you
can save time and repetitive finger actions by setting up an AutoHotkey
hotkey to get the job done.
“If
you do nothing else, use AutoHotkey to quickly open your most used
folders in Windows Explorer.”
This
is a cool trick. Do you find that you are opening the same Windows
folders innumerable times during the day? Set up a hotkey combination
with AutoHotkey to instantly open each of those most used favorites.
Plus, you can put those key actions in a quick pop-up menu.
“If
you do nothing else, use AutoHotkey to power extra mouse buttons and
vestigial keys like insert.”
Tips
on how use AutoHotkey to take advantage of extra mouse buttons, and the
annoying Insert and CapsLock keys, plus, for the hardcore AutoHotkey
user, a more advanced technique for adding color to AutoHotkey ListView
rows.
“There
are hundreds of free AutoHotkey apps available for the taking.”
You
don't need to know very much about AutoHotkey to take advantage of the
many free scripts available for a wide variety of uses on your Windows
computer.
“Choosing
a Windows scripting program for automating your computer activities.”
Both scripting languages are from the same roots, but which
one is right for you?
Includes All ComputorEdge
AutoHotkey
E-Book Table of Contents and Indexes
A
Beginner's Guide to AutoHotkey Contents and Index Digging
Deeper into AutoHotkey Contents and Index AutoHotkey
Applications Contents and Index A
Beginner's Guide to Using Regular Expressions in AutoHotkey
Contents
and Index
Beginning
AutoHotkey Hotstrings Contents
and Index
Included as a reference for the e-book A Beginner's Guide to AutoHotkey, its complete
Table of Contents and Index.
Included as a reference for the e-book Digging
Deeper into AutoHotkey, its complete Table of
Contents
and Index.
Included
as a reference for the e-book AutoHotkey
Applications, its complete Table of Contents
and Index.
Included
as a reference for the e-book A Beginner's
Guide to Using Regular Expression in AutoHotkey, its
complete
Table of Contents
and Index.
Included
as a reference for the e-book Beginning
AutoHotkey Hotstrings, its complete
Table of Contents
and Index.
AutoHotkey
Hotkey Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Contents
and Index
Included
as a reference for the e-book AutoHotkey
Hotkeys, its complete
Table of Contents
and Index.
Beginning Tips for Writing AutoHotkey
Scripts Contents
and Index
Included
as a reference for the e-book Beginning
Tips for Writing AutoHotkey Scripts, its complete
Table of Contents
and Index.
Jack's Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips Contents
and Index
Included
as a reference for the e-book Jack's Motley Assortment of AutoHotkey Tips, its complete
Table of Contents
and Index.
For More Information If you're interested
it testing AutoHotkey to see if it might be right for you, see "Installing
AutoHotkey and Writing Your First Script."
This page shows you how to get up and running with AutoHotkey,
plus it offers links to other articles on how to use AutoHotkey. If
you want more information in either the Amazon Kindle format, EPUB
format for use on iPad and other types of tablet computers (or on your
PC), or PDF for printing on letter size paper for adding to a binder,
then check out the AutoHotkey e-books by Jack Dunning at ComputorEdge E-Books. Most of these
AutoHotkey books are also available at Amazon.com (all except the AutoHotkey Applications
book found exclusively at ComputorEdge E-Books. Some
More AutoHotkey Uses
• Autocorrect
over 5,000 commonly misspelled words in any Windows program
or on the
Web.
• Set
a reminder for a later
meeting.
• Use
QuickLinks to replace the
missing Windows 8 Start Menu (or just to make life easier in any
version of Windows).
