You may not have to start programming just yet, though, because FastKeys includes plenty of built-in commands you can use. And of course you'll also figure out immediately how it can be tweaked to launch any other website (or program) you like. Ctrl+C copies the text to the clipboard there's a brief delay, then FastKeys is launching Google with your selected text.

It's not just some black box function, you can actually look at, and change the code which makes it work:Įven if you've never done any programming in your life, you can probably guess what that means. Take that 'Google search for the selected text' example. There are others, and you can customise these or add your own as required.įor all this, FastKeys is mostly an extremely capable scripting and keyboard macro tool. Type ,cl, for example, and you'll see a menu of common closing phrases: 'I look forward to your reply', 'I look forward to hearing from you' and so on.

The Text Expander meanwhile looks out for shortcut strings and expands them to something useful. Work in Notepad, say, and as you type you'll find new autocomplete menus popping up, allowing you to correctly enter lengthy words without typing every character. It has text expansion and auto completion options. Press Alt+T to make a window transparent Alt+G to run a Google search on the selected text Alt+Q to display the Recent Documents menu Ctrl+Alt+V to paste text without any annoying formatting. It supports lots of global keyboard shortcuts. This starts off with just a few links (Office, system applets, Documents folder, a few web shortcuts, shutdown options), but can easily be expanded to add more. It's a sort-of Start menu replacement, for instance once running, just move your mouse to the top edge of the screen and a basic Start menu appears. FastKeys is a versatile Windows automation program which comes packed with time-saving tools.

For windows download FastKeys 5.13