Active Words: Opening Websites and Documents

If you haven’t heard of Active Words before, I suggest starting at the beginning and reading the first blogs, here. AW has another function that I use constantly: Opening up a website that I go to regularly, without having to open another tab in my browser and then bring up my list of bookmarks with the website listed in it. With AW, all I have to do is type in the word or letter I assigned it in AW (Google, for example, has the letter “g” assigned to it) and then hit the F11 key. No matter where I’m at, … Continue reading

Active Words: Automatic vs Manual Correcting

In my last blog, I talked about Active Word’s ability to fix all of the typing errors you make, without you having to do anything but enter the information into AW one time (about a 20 second process.) When you enter these corrections into AW, it allows you to choose whether the corrections will be done automatically (“acess” becomes “access” without you doing anything) or letting you hit a “hot key” when you want the correction to be done. Knowing whether you want the correction to be done automatically or manually is about 70% of mastering AW. There are very … Continue reading

Active Words: A Fantastic Program and a Real Time Saver

I have found a program that will make your life, and your job, twice as easy as it is right now. A bold claim, but I stand behind it. Active Words is a program I have been using for years now (two? three? something like that) and I am at the point now that if I have to get along without it because I’m on someone else’s computer, it just about kills me. Or at least tortures me to the point where I wish I was dead. Close enough. AW is a bit hard to explain, but I’ll try. First, … Continue reading