“Creates macros & let's you "press" keys with a mouse [Key Manager].
Pros: Easily create & edit macros, remap formerly useless keys, and create user defined menus so you can trigger your macros with either a mouse click, a keypress, or a hot-key combination.
Cons: None, except the free version is limited to ten macros.
Summary: This program is great! It sends keystrokes allowing the creation of macros. The genius: it can create menus of your macros, and can trigger the macros with methods in addition to the usual hot-key combinations. For example: A "long press" right mouse click brings up a user-customized menu that let's me select any key or hot-key combination with my mouse; great if your hands are limited by chronic disease, or if you just prefer using the mouse. A never-used key on my keyboard is now programmed to create the multi-keypress ASCII bullet points I use frequently, a huge convenience! Many other features are available, and the program is easy to learn. I use it many times daily. Worth every penny!”

 

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Video Tutorials

1. How to launch menu items that have no hotkeys associated with them in different programs

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2. Replacement of key combinations with other key combinations

An example of a key combination replacement: Ctrl + Insert (Copy), Shift + Insert (Paste), Shift + Delete (Cut) and Alt + Backspace (Undo) combinations in the old Borland Turbo C++ (DOS) application are replaced by the standard Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, Ctrl + X and Ctrl + Z combinations. The new combinations are also shown in a popup menu when Ctrl+"Right mouse button" is pressed and can be added to an exception allowing these replacements to work in a specified application only.

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3. Pasting user-defined formatted text (RTF) into MS Word or other text editors

The example shows the process of pasting formatted RTF text containing the current date into an MS Word 2007 document. It also shows how a selected text fragment is replaced with the same text in brackets.

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4. Opening a selected text fragment in the Internet browser

The example shows the result of the "Open web page" action in combination with the %km_seltext (selected text) template.

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5. Emulation of a double click of the left mouse button

The example shows how a double click of the left mouse button is assigned to F1 and F2 with a 600 ms delay.

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6. Recording and pasting a typed text fragment (macro)

This example shows the process of recording a text macro (logging and pasting the typed text) and its assignment to the Win+5 combination.

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7. Pasting text from the clipboard into applications that do not support the clipboard

The "Type Text" action using the %km_cbtext template is assigned to the Ctrl + V combination, which allows you to type the content of the clipboard in applications that do not support it.

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