Can you attach your email address to a keybord F key

SilverLiz

My husband takes ages entering our email address. Is there any way you can attach it to one of the F keys or indeed any keyboard key so that it will just enter it when you press it?

googler

Type it in a plain text file with notepad or similar. save.

Keep this file open at all times.

To retrieve it, switch to notepad with Alt+Tab, select it with Ctrl+A, copy with Ctrl+C, switch to where you want to put it, and paste with Ctrl+V.

It's a lot quicker to do than to type out, honest.

esuhl

SilverLiz wrote: »

My husband takes ages entering our email address. Is there any way you can attach it to one of the F keys or indeed any keyboard key so that it will just enter it when you press it?

A program called AutoHotKey should be able to do that for you:
http://www.autohotkey.com/

(I haven't tried it myself.)

RealGem

I never type my email address out. I always copy and paste it from my Gmail tab that is always open.

(except on those annoying websites that don't allow you to paste!)

agrinnall

Teach your husband to type a bit quicker.

Anne_Marie_2

agrinnall wrote: »

Teach your husband to type a bit quicker.

Only person to teach themselves to type quicker, is the person typing with plenty of practise. If I could have taught my hubby to type quicker, believe me I would.

cookie365

Some keyboards have additional feature keys that you can program with this sort of thing if you install the software.

Or try a clipboard manager like Clipmate which allows you to quickly paste template text.

dogmaryxx

This works well for me in Chrome.

Bookmark any webpage

Edit title to E-mail or whatever you like.

Edit url to your email address.

When you need to use just copy and paste bookmark.

You will need to delete the / which will appear at end of your address.

peace-maker

There is an extension for Google Chrome called 'Auto Text Expander' so that when you type something short like e@ it will automatically fill out your email address. If you are ok with google chrome (and installing extensions - which should be straight forward), this could be the perfect thing for you. PM me if you want, and I will help further.

esuhl

Or... register a domain with a short name and set up email using that. You could be x@jq8.co.uk. Maybe not that memorable, but fairly quick to type!

For April Fools' Day, you'll just have to send a spoof email to your hubby saying that his email address has been changed to one with this provider:
http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/