ActiveWords Scripting, or investing 5 minutes to save lots of minutes..

I just wrote a dynamite script using ActiveWords, as I so often find myself sending “urls” off to people.

<ALT>d</ALT><CTRL>c</CTRL><nem><TAB:5>

<CTRL>v</CTRL><SHIFT><TAB:4>

So, assuming you are at a webpage, this script does the following:

<ALT>d</ALT> goes to the address line

<CTRL>c</CTRL> copies whatever is in the address line

<nem> is an ActiveWord that uses our Outlook agent to create a “new E-Mail message”, http://www.activewords.com/plusapplications.html 

<New Outlook Email><icon:o|a>

which is inclduded in our Outlook agent e.g.

<TAB:5> tabs down 5 lines into the body of the email

<CTRL>v</CTRL> pastes the whatever is in the address line into the body of the E-Mail

<SHIFT><TAB:4> takes me back to the “to” line in Outlook so that I can address the E-Mail.

Copy and paste it into the “action” field in the scripting part of ActiveWords add wizard.

I call it “neml”

Seems to work great for me. I have used it a dozen times in the last day.

Try it and tell me what you think.

Comments

[Robin Capper]

Worked fine for me except had to substitute for your to get the new email launched.

My install had "email" with confirmation ticked as the ActiveWord for new email. I don't remember altering it from the default but then again I don't remember a lot of things!

[Philip Ferris]

As per Robin I changed to the word I use to activate new emails ( if using the Outlook Add-in or if just using plain ActiveWords.

Handy feature as I like sending off urls quickly to people I think would be interested in them. Thanks.

Makes me feel I should do more than I do with scripting.