KeyText is also smart at simulating mouse clicks. It can click the right spot on a window - button on a dialog or toolbar, link on a web page - even if the window is in a different position each time.

Use the built-in Scheduler to set programs to run, or reminders to display, at specified days or times; for example, 9:00 and 17:00 every day; on the 1st and last Friday of a month; on the 15th of every second month; or on an anniversary each year.

Tell KeyText to watch for windows, dialogs, or password requests appearing, and it will fill in or button-click them away. KeyText has its own password protection to help ensure the privacy of password or other personal information you have stored.

KeyText's if/then/else logic means KeyText can check for the existence of a specified window (or file), and take different courses of action depending on if it is found or not. Or check selected text, clipboard text, variables or a pixel color - and do different things depending on what they are.

By reducing the amount of repetitve typing you do, KeyText may help to reduce the danger of repetitive strain injury.

• Trigger text lets you set up abbreviations for your favorite texts. Type the abbreviation and KeyText expands it with the text you require. Use it for boilerplate text, difficult-to-spell words, or even for symbols/accents - set #half to type ½ or e// to type é.
• Advanced Smart Select. Imagine - you select text in a browser or document, press a hotkey, and if it's...
  • a zipcode, Google maps goes there
  • an email address, a new email is started
  • a web site, your browser opens it
  • 2 or more words, a phrase search starts
  • one word, an online dictionary finds it.
  One of the KeyText samples lets you do just that!
• String variables allow you to keep frequently-used texts as strings which can be accessed from other macros - or even by other users on a network. They can also be used with Regular Expressions to give sophisticated text manipulation possibilities.
• Integer variables let you store numbers which are remembered from one session to the next; you can even specify that a number resets on, say, the first of each month - and use it as a counter for naming files, pictures, etc.
• If/then/else logic. Choose different actions depending on the contents of the clipboard, currrent selection, window title, process name, variable value, pixel color and more. You can even narrow in further and base the decision on, say, the first character on the clipboard, in lower case.
• Pixel color detection Choose different actions depending on the color of a specified pixel on the screen. A wizard lets you set it up with a handy "dropper" that locates the pixel and captures its current color.
• Wait for IE status bar text Specify that KeyText should pause until the standard status bar text of a window equals - for example - Done.
• Regular expressions A VAST range of possibilities open up with Regular Expressions. Use them to match text in if/then/else logic, or use replacement expressions for advanced text manipulation. Examples: convert the current selection (in any window) to lower case; obfuscate an email address; batch rename a group of files, changing PA235001.jpg to lake_001.jpg, PA235014.jpg to lake_014.jpg, etc.
• URL encoding Say you have 2 words selected (any application) and want to feed them into an Internet search. KeyText can do this automatically, inserting the required %20 in place of the SPACE character (etc).
• Easier navigation with groups Give names to groups of KeyText items, and navigate to them easily.
• Editor hotkey To make development of a macro easier, a single hotkey can be set to open the Editor (at the last edit point), save it, or bring it to the front.
• Syntax higlighting The "Edit text items" window now highlights fields, goto labels, comments etc. in different colors. Also - tabs in the window are colored to indicate empty, not empty, or changed.
• System environment variables can now be included in items, or have if/then/else logic based on them.
• Advanced date manipulation For example, you could set up an item to type the date and time 18 hours from now.
• New keypresses It is now possible to have KeyText press shift/ctrl/alt key combinations which do not include another key. Or specify that a key be "held" down.
• Hotkey pass-through Say you have an item hotkey set to Ctrl-Shift D, but in Microsoft Word you want the default action of double-underline. You can now specify that KeyText passes through the hotkey for specified applications.
• and lots more... Click here for full details of what's new.