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Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft. It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the Office Business Applications brand.
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AHK News 2025-11-27- Things I am Thankful For

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy %Name%,

It is Thanksgiving here in the United States.

I’m very thankful that, in the grand scheme of things, I have much more to be thankful for than I have to complain about.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as it is the least “commercialized” and mostly around spending time with Family & Friends.

My son and I are out in Las Vegas visiting my father.   It’s been a good visit but I miss my home and will miss the delicious meal that my wife will be preparing.  (Yes, I miss my wife too…  LOL)

I’m very thankful my son found a Jr. College program that he enjoys and is excelling at.

I’m very thankful my 85-year-old father is in good health?

I’m thankful for YOU!   Without you, the-Automator would not exist so 

THANK YOU!

How about you %Name%?

Do you have anything to be especially thankful for this year?

Now on with the show…

Learn how to Master VSCode Make the switch to v2 Intro to AutoHotkey Intermediate AutoHotkey Intermediate ObjectsGUIs are Easy w/AutoHotkey Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

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RegEx101 vs. RegEx in AutoHotkey

Last week, during an AHK Hero call, Isaias reviewed the differences between using RegEx101 and using Regular Expressions in AutoHotkey.

It was a great session and you can check it out in this video extract.

AHK Regex versus RegEx101: What to watch out for ??
AHK Regex versus RegEx101: What to watch out for

Creating a simple Fuzzy match

A YouTube subscriber asked for a tutorial on how to adapt a normal search and make it a “Fuzzy” search.

Irfan showed how simple it is to change your search to Ordered characters with a Regular Expression. Check it out in this video.

Changing Search to Fuzzy Match
Changing Search to Fuzzy Match

Don’t forget, we have an amazing Intro to RegEx course that comes with a double your money back guarantee!

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Tracking Down a bug with Git Bisect

We had a weird bug in AHK Script Maker.   Isaias mentioned he’d like to use a cool feature from git to make it easier.  We walk through how to do it in this video.

Tracking down issues with git-Bisect : Great tips to save Time?
Tracking down issues with git-Bisect : Great tips to save Time?

Improving People’s Lives: Story #72

I spent some time yesterday with a client here in Las Vegas.

We walked through various uses of both AI and AutoHotkey (and how they fit together to make a “Batman and Robin” team!)

?? What we’re reading

?? AI News that you Need to Know

??Productivity tips:  

Control+Shift+L will apply Bulleted list to selected text in MS Word

?? A spot of Humor:  As God is my witness…

WKRP Turkey Drop
WKRP Turkey Drop

Clients say…

“My mind is blown” — Kelly Coughlin

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Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 493 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members?

You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

  • Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
  • AHK Script Maker: Creating/managing Tabs
  • Adding Popular Programs to our v2 AHKHotkeyString tool
  • Comparing Cloned objects versus Copied Objects / Strings
  • Z-order of Windows tool from Claude Sonnet 4.5
  • Creating a Hash versus Encoding
  • 5 Git commandsthat feel like Magic
  • Using a Ternary to easily apply changes based on logic (instead of using an “if”)
  • Comparing strings, case sensitivity, how to handle when in map, etc.
  • Using SendTo for passing multiple files to a script

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

Quotable quotes

  • Never give up, never surrender, and always go for the win. — Charlie Kirk
  • Poverty is a state of mind not the state of your wallet — Joe Glines
  • Knowledge is power; Automation knowledge is a super-power?? — Joe Glines

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AutoHotkey Webinar- 07/2021 Helping people with their code

AutoHotkey webinarThis month’s AutoHotkey Webinar we helped a few people with their projects

Hour 1
Hour 2

We debuted AHKHotKeyStringLookup however I recommend you wait a day or two before downloading it so we can fix the glitch we saw in the webinar.

Dimitri mentioned this link for helping solve his goal of attaching a file to an active, inline, email

Disabling Spelling and Grammar check in MS Word with AutoHotkey

Microsoft WordI’ve been shoving AutoHotkey code into MS Word a lot lately and got tired of going through all the steps to disable the spell check and grammar checker each time. I tried looking for a button inside MS Word to add to my toolbar but I couldn’t find a button to apply the settings (or to get me to the Proofing page) so I decided to write it in AutoHotkey. Here’s the video explaining how I got the code and the hiccups I had along the way.

Disabling Spelling and Grammar check in MS Word with AutoHotkey

Disabling Spelling and Grammar check in MS Word with AutoHotkey


#SingleInstance,Force

doc:=ComObjActive("Word.Application") ;this would activate an open one

doc.Application.ScreenUpdating := False

doc.Options.CheckSpellingAsYouType:=True

doc.Options.CheckGrammarAsYouType :=True

doc.ActiveDocument.ShowSpellingErrors := False

doc.ActiveDocument.ShowGrammaticalErrors := False

doc.Application.ScreenUpdating := True ;Update the screen