Trending from CNET. Free to try Editors' Rating. Download Now. Editors' Review Download. Full Specifications. What's new in version 4. Version 4. You can easily locate, add, and edit your Words and Actions in a clean, contemporary user interface. Search is super powerful, allowing you to restrict search text by field and by Action type, making it very easy to quickly locate exactly what you are looking for.
You can drag'n drop almost any content or Windows objects to the Floating Icon, instantly creating Words and Actions. Drag'n drop sections of documents and Web pages, URLs, files, folders, programs, you name it.
A new Substitute Content Action includes a robust RTF editor, and images are stored in the local database, assuring they will be included whenever a Substitute Content Action is triggered. Release August 26, Date Added August 26, Operating Systems. Operating Systems Windows, Windows 7, Windows Additional Requirements None. Total Downloads 6, Downloads Last Week 1. You also agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge the data collection and usage practices outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Download Now. ActiveWords makes all words active. Enter or select any text in any context at any time, and be directly transported to services related to the meaning of that text. ActiveWords measures keystrokes saved by triggering Substitute Text and Substitute Content Actions, as well as keystrokes saved by triggering Scripts. You set the variables of typing speed, characters per word, the value of your time, and your estimate of time saved each time you trigger an Action.
ActiveWords then calculates an estimated value of the time you save. The Productivity dialog shows you how much you are using ActiveWords and measures time saving benefits. The measurements are estimates. The actual time savings realized by adopting ActiveWords in your work cannot be perfectly measured as many unknowns exist, such as how you might alternatively carry out the same Actions.
However, personalizing the variables in Productivity Settings can give you a good idea of the value of ActiveWords to you. You set the average number of seconds saved by using a Word to trigger these Actions. Auto-corrections e. The number of characters substituted in an auto-correct substitution are usually equal to the number entered in a misspelled word, so little keyboard entry is directly saved. What is saved, the time not spent correcting misspellings, is difficult to quantify but certainly a real benefit.
Also, the universal auto-correct feature increases the quality of your work product by reducing misspelled words in published materials distributed to your customers and colleagues.
You can also review how many times you have triggered each Action by viewing the Usage column in the List View. Click here to purchase support assistance. It is highly unlikely your ActiveWords data will become unusable but abrupt power interruptions and system crashes may result in database problems. Copy and paste the bold indented text below into a new Script Action, associate your Word.
Trigger your Word to watch it work. Some examples have download links to insert directly in your ActiveWords database. In these cases the file name is the Word to trigger. Change the Word to something you are comfortable with if needed. Search all ActiveWords fields. Download: saw.
Note the ability to add comments using lines beginning with a semicolon. The script above could also be:. Search ActiveWords data for text in the Word field. Download: fw. Note: This script assumes the List View filter is checked see the Gear icon on the List View so that each field can be searched individually.
Search ActiveWords data for text in the Action field: Download: fa. Search the Windows StartMenu Download: swin. Complex script to search Outlook Calendars: Download: fcf. Create Input Script. Note that you can trigger this Action inside the Action field on a new Action. Also note how to include a curly bracket as text.
Download: input. Download: oic. Download: oie. The script is:. Create a new Note in Evernote and put the focus in the Title field. Download: nnote. It also requires Evernote to be running. Search the current Evernote Notebook Using an Input. Download: sen. Shared ActiveWords allow a central authority to distribute and control ActiveWords for a set of users.
Deploying Shared ActiveWords assures the enterprise that each ActiveWords user is working with the same data, thus delivering consistent and accurate results using a shared, consistent ActiveWords language i.
Updates to a Shared ActiveWords file are automatically incorporated into each user data file. When an update is seen, all data from the previous Shared file is removed from each user data file and all data from the updated Shared file is inserted.
This design assures that end users can trigger both their personal ActiveWords and Shared ActiveWords from the main ActiveWords interface. Usage information is maintained for each user as Shared ActiveWords are changed. Create the Words and Actions to be shared. It is strongly recommended that each Description field contain text identifying the common relationship AND that each Action be associated with the same Tag. The text in the Description field and the Tag helps the administrator locate the data to be exported into the Shared ActiveWords file.
Create Shared ActiveWords Video. This can be accomplished manually through the Settings dialog, by sending a URL link to each user to be clicked, or by running a command line file containing the path to the Shared ActiveWords file. ADD: [path to ActiveWords. CMD files for all ActiveWords installations using network management tools. Each line in the Command Line file can contain one add or remove command.
Use a plain text editor such as Notepad. The contents of the Shared ActiveWords file will be instantly and silently inserted into the users ActiveWords data file, and is immediately available. Assign Shared ActiveWords video. Be sure to deactivate the license key when editing is complete. Upon exiting, the existing Shared ActiveWords file is over written at its network location.
Edit Shared ActiveWords Video:. Shared ActiveWords assignments will be automatically removed from local ActiveWords installations if either the file does not exist, or the path does not exist.
If the network path is not accessible, for example, due to physical disconnection from the network, Shared ActiveWords will remain in the ActiveWords client data file, allowing for laptop usage and network maintenance. Multiple Shared ActiveWords files can be assigned. This application construct does not follow prior Windows standards in several ways that make delivering substitutions problematic.
One anomaly is that a a substitution may not appear unless you first put something in the Windows Clipboard by copying or cutting. We continue to explore means of assuring the reliability of both text and content substitutions in Universal App contexts.
Open and close the Tags View by clicking the arrow at the top left of the List View, or by triggering a Tag. Tags can be triggered just like Words. Tags can only be triggered with a double space or the ActiveWords Key. ActiveWords Addins have a Tag assigned to each included Action to make it easy to reference and edit Words and Actions of interest.
Users can also assign or remove a Tag when adding or editing an Action. All Actions associated with a particular Tag will be displayed in the List View when a Tag is selected in the left column of the List View.
Users can add, delete, and edit Tags, as well as add and remove Actions from Tags as needed. To delete a Tag you need to delete all Actions associated with that Tag. With the Tag you wish to delete selected, click on one of the Actions to the right, press Control-a to select all Actions associated with that Tag.
Watch Video:. Assign triggers to each Word. These triggering conventions enable Words to be entered at any time in any context, whether the Action substitutes text or content, or opens a desired object such as a URL, folder, file, or program.
A triggered Word is always removed from the context where it is entered before the Action is carried out. You can also enter and trigger any Word when there is no entry context, such as the Windows Desktop or a static Web page. As such, ActiveWords becomes a property of your computer, not an application limited to a specific window or context. See the ActionPad video:. Also, text substitutions created as a Scripting type Action will not include the trailing delimiter when triggered.
ActiveWords work everywhere, even at the Windows Desktop and in other contexts where there is no active text cursor. Input commands can be included in any Action. These enable the user to enter search terms or variables as the Action is being executed. You can use multiple Input commands in a single Action. You can trigger text substitution Actions within the Input field. Usage: Place Input commands within text where user input is needed.
ActiveWords version 3 and earlier versions are no longer supported. All users of prior ActiveWords versions are encouraged to migrate to ActiveWords 4 to receive product support and to assure compatibility with Windows going forward. ActiveWords 3 data is automatically imported when ActiveWords 4 starts for the first time on a computer having an ActiveWords 3 user data folder. We will manually generate 60 day unlocking keys for ActiveWords 3 on request to facilitate your transition to ActiveWords 4.
Click for the Public Release change log. Click for the Beta Release change log. Here are just a few of the new features and improvements in ActiveWords 4! The main list of your Words and Actions is now much more attractive, flexible, and powerful. A new Substitute Content Action includes a robust RTF editor, and images are stored in the local database, assuring they will be included whenever a Substitute Content Action is triggered.
You can now create custom triggers. Read-only shared Words and Actions for work groups and enterprise wide. Multiple shared files customize content per user and group. No server software to maintain. Centralized control of shared data files. AES encryption secures your data. Simple to deploy and maintain for two to thousands of users. Free Addins Misspellings Addins for several languages.
0コメント