Access different network drives by using QuicKeys to connect or disconnect from a network volume instantly with a click or a hot key.

To quickly print to your black and white draft printer make a two-step shortcut that does a Switch Printer (to the b&w draft printer) then select Print from the File menu. Give it a hot key of Control+P and you'll always print to your draft printer when you press Control+P.

For color printing you might instruct the Choose Printer shortcut to select your high quality color printer before selecting Print from the File menu. Assign Control+Shift+P to this shortcut and you'll always print to your color printer when you press that key combination...

"Retrospect was the application that was used as a platform for the bulk of my shortcut programming in QuicKeys. I was trying to automate a process to reset [a Retrospect] client that was on the backup list. This is a multi-step process that results from an a consistency check error and was proving to be an annoyance due its frequency of occurrence. Retrospect does not provide a mechanism to automate this process, so it seemed like a good candidate for exercising QuicKeys. I split the problem into two shortcuts. One shortcut removes the client from the backup list and adds it back in. The second shortcut rebuilds the backup volumes that were lost when the client was removed. Overall, the shortcuts were fairly easy to develop using the recording feature, and then the shortcut editor to clean things up." ...