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- **** GLOBAL ABBREVIATIONS QUICK TOUR ****
- **** Release 1.5.
- **** Copyright 1993,94 by George TatgΘ.
- **** All rights reserved.
-
-
- *** Attention! Attenzi≤ne! íAtenci≤n! ***
-
- If you are NOT using a U.S. keyboard, you are in
- the wrong Quick Tour file!
- First, read the "non_us.txt" file! This is IMPORTANT!
-
- -----------------------------------------------------
-
- You're busy, so let's get down to business.
-
- WHAT GLOBAL ABBREVIATIONS DOES FOR YOU:
-
- Global Abbreviations has only one purpose--
- to SAVE YOU TIME! You save time by typing less,
- and you save time by not having to jump around
- in different windows to find things or do
- things.
-
- It's a very simple concept. You can abbreviate
- words, or sentences, or commands, or many other
- things. Then, you can ALWAYS have INSTANT
- ACCESS to them from ANYWHERE in Windows!
- You've probably used macro facilities in word
- processors or spread sheets. They can be big
- time savers. But, they only work in that one
- application.
-
- Global Abbreviations gives you that
- functionality and MUCH MORE in EVERY
- APPLICATION. And it works EXACTLY the same
- whether you are working in a spread sheet or
- a word processor or a data base or ANYWHERE!
-
- Let's try it right here in the Windows
- Notepad.exe application. You probably use
- this Windows program for fast editing jobs.
- It's the same program, but now, Global
- Abbreviations is listening in to help you.
-
- Try the examples below. This assumes that
- Global Abbreviations is ON (green "GA" icon).
-
- Don't worry about changing this file,
- it's a copy.
-
- Whenever you see, "<Cntrl>;" in the instructions,
- hold down the CONTROL KEY and type the
- SEMI-COLON KEY (;). By the way, don't worry,
- you can change the Control Key assignments
- later if you don't like the defaults.
- See Help- Hot Keys for details.
-
- TRY IT RIGHT HERE! Put your cursor in the
- empty line below, and type a couple of spaces
- followed by: " wow <Cntrl>;" (without the quotes!)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- If you typed it as shown, you should have seen
- the "wow" replaced with "This program can save
- me lots of time!" Now just realize that you
- can define any abbreviation to be whatever you
- want! Note-- this Quick Tour assumes that the
- sample set of abbreviations is active and that
- Global Abbreviations is running (green icon).
-
- A brief note before we continue. All
- abbreviations must be delimited (separated
- from other words) by a Space or a Carriage
- Return (Enter key). SO START EACH EXAMPLE
- BY TYPING A SPACE!
-
- Try This One!-> in the line below type:
- " ssi <Cntrl>;" (without the quotes!)
-
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- But what if you have several abbreviations
- that all start the same? (note: this is
- common for programmers when several variables
- or constants start with the same few letters.)
- No problem, if you aren't happy the first time,
- Global Abbreviations will keep trying,
- circling through all possible matches.
- You simply keep hitting the same hot key
- again and again. To see this,
- Type: " g <Cntrl>;<Cntrl>;<Cntrl>;<Cntrl>;<Cntrl>;" (w/o quotes)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Now you begin to see how easy this can make
- typing things that you can't exactly remember,
- without having to leave where you are and go
- look them up someplace else!!
- Reminder-> Start with a SPACE or the ENTER key!
- Easy isn't it? Now try this one:
- " 1234 <Cntrl>;" (w/o quotes )
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Amazing. Anytime you send nothing but numbers,
- Global Abbreviations will spell them out for
- you in English. Apologies to our international
- friends.
-
- Remember, you could be doing this in any
- Windows application. You could move to
- another Editor or WordProcessor or Programming
- Environment or DataBase or ANYWHERE. Now you
- can have some consistency, no matter where
- you are!
-
- Ok, here's another one that will come in handy
- once in awhile. Type in: " (34 * tan 30) <Cntrl>'"
- (without the quotes, Note the single quote!)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This example shows two things. One is the
- FULL EXPRESSION EVALUATOR. And the other is
- the use of The Append Hot Key instead of
- The Replace Hot Key. Your results should
- have looked like this:
- (34 * tan 30) = -217.781260685974
-
- Now try this: " ;today <Cntrl>;" (remember the SPACE)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- You should have seen today's date returned.
- When I do it I get Saturday, December 18, 1993.
- Abbreviations that begin with a semi-colon
- are special commands or ;Macros to Global
- Abbreviations, see Help for details.
-
- Ok, another feature you'll come to rely on.
- This is the program launcher. It is going to
- call up the Windows File Manager. After you
- do it, just close (or minimize) the File Manager
- and come back here.
-
- Type this: " :fm <Cntrl>;" (w/o quotes)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Welcome back! You can use Global Abbreviations
- to launch any windows app you want.
- " :fm" is just an example built into the
- sample abbreviations list that launches File
- Manager. Remembering abbreviations is MUCH
- EASIER than trying to remember separate hot
- keys assigned to each app! Abbreviations that
- begin with a colon (:) are used to launch other
- programs. They can also be used to put bitmaps
- or text files onto the clipboard so you can
- immediately paste them into the application
- you are using. See Help for details.
-
- **** New for Version 1.5 ****
-
- 1. Support for Non-US keyboards!
- 2. Optional Auto Mode so you don't even need to use
- the Replace Hot Key for expansions.
- 3. Optional Popup List.
-
- ** See Help for details on these new features. **
-
- Now, the only thing left is to find out how to
- enter your own abbreviations. There are LOTS
- of ways. One we can sample from right here.
- The Immediate Hot Key is especially useful for
- programmers and others who type in
- LongSingleWordsWithoutASpace. You can teach
- these to Global Abbreviations on the fly!!!
- Remember: (w/o quotes and note the "/")
- Try this: " ThisIsALongWord <Cntrl>/"
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- You should have had a little message flashed
- back saying " ADDED-> This ThisIsALongWord"
- Well let's see if it did.
- Now type:
- " thi <Cntrl>;" (without the quotes!)
-
-
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- and you should see: ThisIsALongWord
-
- This is just a fast way to put in single
- abbreviations without having to slow down what
- you're doing at the time. The Editor and
- Importer will give you powerful ways to build
- sets of abbreviations from your existing
- documents and Visual Basic Ascii files.
-
- This brings us to the end of the quick tour.
- (Reminder- this is a temp file you are in so
- don't worry about saving it when you close
- notepad.)
-
- You should go to the Editor now to explore
- some more.
-
- The last of the four Hot Keys can be helpful
- here. All it does is popup the Global
- Abbreviations Edit Window.
- Type "<Cntrl>=" (w/o quotes) and you'll be there.
-
- ENJOY!!!!!!
- George TatgΘ
- Solid Software Inc.
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