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Category: Office Automation

Office automation refers to the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks. Raw data storage, electronic transfer, and the management of electronic business information comprise the basic activities of an office automation system.[1] Office automation helps in optimizing or automating existing office procedures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_automation

Command Prompt Here | Instantly access DOS from any Windows Explorer

Command Prompt here

Do you work in the Command prompt often? We do! So much that we wrote a couple of great tools to make it super-easy to access the command prompt
The first tool modifies your Windows Shell context menu. After running cmdhere, simply right-click in an Explorer window and you’ll see a new option “Cmd here”.
Additionally there’s a second script which, when launched will get the path to your active Explorer window and open a command prompt

You might want to use it when you work through our Intro to DOS course

Simple example of automating Chrome with AutoHotkey | It’s much easier than you probably think!

GeekDude’s Chrome Class is amazing! Having said that, automating Chrome is much more complicated than automating IE. For this reason I asked Isaias to create a Simple example of automating Chrome with AutoHotkey.

Here’s the short video of automating Chrome with AutoHotkey

You can get the Simple script automating Chrome with AutoHotkey below

Detect multiple presses of keys / mouse buttons with AutoHotkey

A subscriber reached out asking for help on how to detect multiple presses of a device (Probably something connected via Bluetooth). While I showed them where I walk through how to detect the long-press of a key, I did think it was an interesting question so Isaias and I worked on a more robust solution that is easily adaptable for multiple key / mouse presses. We also touched on using a Ternary command over just logic.

Detecting multiple presses

Get the code to detect multiple presses

AutoHotkey Webinar VS code: GIT and Debug like you’ve never seen it! #1 for GIT Integration!

Script Highlight: Window Snipping by the-Automator

Updates:

Allow custom hotkeys
Easily change Outlook Signatures
Save files to your desktop
Auto Check for Updates
Instructions

We had a great AutoHotkey webinar VS Code by our top employee Isaias Baez!

Hour 1: Overview of VS Code: Installation, Configuring, Debugging, GIT

Hour 2: Questions & answers More debugging, features

VS Code Webinar

AutoHotkey Plus extension

Make sure you leverage Bookmarks

Visualize code authorship at a glance with Gitlens

Easily open hex files with the Hex Editor

Get GIT to seamlessly store revisions of your code

And check this tutorial out on how to configure GIT