I've written simple text shortcuts for QuicKeys to automate information I often have to enter. e.g.

Having them organized this has proven easy to remember (it helps not to have a middle name).

Make a short sequence whose purpose is to swap the position of two characters. If you spend a lot of time working with text, this can be a valuable shortcut. The makers of BBEdit® (a popular high-end text editor) find this type of operation useful enough to give it its own menu item and hot key...

QuicKeys can type frequently used text for you, storing an unlimited number of text blocks for quick access. The Type Text shortcut is detailed in a tutorial from the QuicKeys X3 User Guide (linked below); it uses a hot key to automatically type your name and address.

"Just needed to let you know that after hoping to make the switch from Microsoft Word to Apple's new Pages, the one thing that kept me from jumping completely was the need for a Thesaurus, which Apple's new program lacked. Fortunately, I was able to download Nisus' Thesaurus for free, but it resided in the Services menu of Pages and I needed to highlight the word and then drag down and over through menus and submenus. Sure, it doesn't sound like a lot of trouble, but when you use a thesaurus a lot in your job, as I do, then it becomes a hassle of not being able to quickly hit a key. QuicKeys afforded me the ability to lookup my selection without clicking the mouse. For that alone, it was worth every penny. I now use Pages for my word processing and Microsoft Word no longer resides in my dock."

This sort of solution is easily accomplished with a Menu Selection shortcut tied to a hot key trigger.

"One procedure I use on both platforms is a must for anyone who is a power typist and wants to completely rid yourself of all mouse activity while working in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Netscape, or any other application where word processing is used. Keeping your hands on the keyboard is a must for fast entry, so anything to rid oneself of those annoying mouse clicks is critical. Assign Type Keystroke equivalents to each of the hidden commands. Here's my secret recipe:"

1. For moving one word to the right or left (Hidden command "Control+Arrow Right or Left" becomes Alt+; or Alt+Shift+;). (Alt = Option on Macs)
2. Selecting one word to the right or left (Hidden command "Control+Shift+Arrow Right or Left" becomes Alt+. or Alt+,).
3. Deleting or "Backspacing" the text is assigned Alt+I.

"You'll find these particular keyboard equivalents almost intuitive and easy to learn, and fit quite comfortably within standard keyboard hand placement. This email was written using these same commands... something I can not even begin to imagine doing without. This feature alone is why I own QuicKeys. The rest of its amazing powerhouse tools are simply LOTS of icing on this great cake! Enjoy!"

When I started using Office 2004 I quickly fell in hate with the way the Formatting palette would not remember which reveal arrows I had toggled open from session to session. A few minutes of looking found no preference setting to control this behavior so I went about creating a QuicKeys shortcut to automate the opening of the formatting reveals I wanted open whenever I launched Word.

The shortcut is simple, it uses three click steps to open the Bullets, Alignment, & Styles reveals, in that order. The click steps each look for a window type of "Palette" whose name is "Formatting Palette", then they click on the desired reveal triangles (I used Set Location to record the x,y location of the triangles).

It only took a couple of minutes to set up and it saves me an annoying series of clicks every time I open Word. Recently I took the shortcut one step further and put it on a timer to automatically trigger itself a couple of seconds after Word launches.