Using Overlay Keyboards To Create Personalized Program Shortcuts

Memory is a amusing thing. Everyone remembers important things like pay day, our birthday and hopefully our anniversary. These are things that are crucial to us so we recall them. The same is not correct of most keyboard shortcuts in the software we run.

Several of the benefits of employing shortcut are:

1. Less frustration with an application.

2. Less mistakes and error to correct.

3. Less times grabbing the mouse.

4. Increasing productivity.

Yes, we recall the shortcuts that are the same to all applications such as Ctrl+C for copy, Ctrl+O for open and Ctrl+S for save. But what is the shortcut to insert a hyperlink in Word? What can be annoying is that there are no shortcuts to many of the functions in Word. Functions like the paragraph dialog entails using the mouse or remembering the Alt+O+P series.

This is where an overlay keyboard becomes indispensable. Each key on an overlay keyboard can be made to to replicate any string of keys from a standard keyboard. Of course this includes all shortcut keys in a program.

By just pressing the correct key and the shortcut will be activated. By configuring a key to the series Ctrl+K the hyperlink dialog box will appear. Configure another key to Shift+F1 and the reveal format window will appear.

With an overlay keyboard we have the ability to make our own shortcuts. In Word there is no shortcut for the Save As function. A user must either grasp the mouse click on File and then on Save As or depress the keys Alt+F+A. With an overlay keyboard just configure a key to generate the Alt+F+A sequence and you have made your own shortcut.

Although I have used Word as an example in this article an overlay keyboard can be employed with any application. Programs that are industry standards to specially written programs to even Windows itself can be made easier to use. (Don\’t forget the Mac OS and its programs.)

With an overlay keyboard the user\’s time at the computer is made more productive. They are able to concentrate on their job and not how to operate the application. The user does not have to twist their hands into uncomfortable positions to press shortcut keys.

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