How about a .com key?

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When I think of the number of times I type ‘.com’ at the end of a Web address I have to wonder why there’s never been a ‘.com’ key, at least not on any keyboard that I have used. There is one on an Android tablet that I inherited, a Nexus 7, but that’s the only good thing I can say about the Nexus and its absurd virtual keyboard. Be that as it may, would it be difficult to have a global macro that inserts ‘.com’? I’m looking at the US keyboard at the moment, and there are plenty of keys I never use: ~ ^ { } | for instance. I’m sure a lot of people use these keys frequently, but for the rest of us they’re pretty much spare keys.

Any suggestions?????

David

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after typing ( for example ) windowssecrets, press ctrl/enter. That’s the .com on the keyboard.

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after typing ( for example ) windowssecrets, press ctrl/enter. That’s the .com on the keyboard.

Surely ain’t working for me.

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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This CTRL/Enter trick only works in the address bar of the browser, not in any other place where you can enter text, such as a document.

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This CTRL/Enter trick only works in the address bar of the browser, not in any other place where you can enter text, such as a document.

:confused:

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This CTRL/Enter trick only works in the address bar of the browser, not in any other place where you can enter text, such as a document.

Sounds to me like the desire is for a macro that will Copy a URL then Paste it into a text/dialog box. Such a macro may require a two-key or three-key action. Nothing wrong with doing a Select, Copy and Paste routine.

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David,

Get a copy of SharpKeys and you can make the keyboard do anything you want short of making your coffee! HTH :cheers:

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Two brilliant answers in a matter of an hour or two. How many people know about CTRL/Enter? Everyone?? Maybe it’s just me who never found this Windows’ Secret. And I really like the idea of SharpKeys, I’m going to baffle the grandchildren and get some keyboard cred!

David

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Two brilliant answers in a matter of an hour or two. How many people know about CTRL/Enter? Everyone?? Maybe it’s just me who never found this Windows’ Secret. And I really like the idea of SharpKeys, I’m going to baffle the grandchildren and get some keyboard cred!

David

Yep. It’s pretty common knowledge, I’m afraid.

Years ago, when I used Opera, I seem to remember there was a tweak where you could add .org, .net, etc. somewhere to the key combination. It would try all of them till it got a hit. I can’t remember how you did it though.

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I knew about Ctrl/Enter.

cheers, Paul

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I’m going to baffle the grandchildren and get some keyboard cred!

In this day and age, I’m surprised that your Grandchildren didn’t show you the ctrl/enter,
Enjoy

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Wavy,

Works in IE 11 (will auto complete in some instances) & FireFox 39.0 on Win 8.1 Pro.
Works in Edge browser Win 10TP, it will auto complete in some instances also.
{Just a note I couldn’t find an About or Help in Edge what am I missing?}
Works in Chrome on Win 7 HP SP-1

HTH :cheers

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

PowerShell & VBA Rule!
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Wavy,

Works in IE 11 (will auto complete in some instances) & FireFox 39.0 on Win 8.1 Pro.
Works in Edge browser Win 10TP, it will auto complete in some instances also.
{Just a note I couldn’t find an About or Help in Edge what am I missing?}
Works in Chrome on Win 7 HP SP-1

HTH :cheers

Still got FF 35 on XP

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For Edge – “About” is at the bottom of the basic Settings. Can’t find “help” either.

Joe

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In Firefox it’s for a .net address, and for .org. And to put the focus in the address bar in the first place, you have a choice: or . Or you can just press F6.

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Some tablets have a .COM key on their virtual keyboards also.

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Some tablets have a .COM key on their virtual keyboards also.

What – Windows ones?

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What – Windows ones?

I think kevmeist means android tablets and phones, they both have .com keys.

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I think kevmeist means android tablets and phones, they both have .com keys.

Not relevant then

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Yes, that is what I meant. I don’t think all Android “soft” keyboards have them though. My Android tablet does, my Android phone does not. Thanks for the clarification.

K

Not relevant then

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Yes, that is what I meant. I don’t think all Android “soft” keyboards have them though. My Android tablet does, my Android phone does not. Thanks for the clarification.

K

Mine does but w/ the proliferation of TLDs .com may be less needed going forward.

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I use a neat little freebie called AutoHKScript to add “macro” keys on my W7 Desktop:

CtrlAlt @ is .co.uk
CtrlAlt ~ is .com

Funnily enough I re-assigned the @ to the unused wierdo left of the top line “1”

I have my name, five email addresses and a few passwords on hotkeys as well as several other frequently used “words”.
For my pa ss words: I split them into three chunks and use three different hotkey combinations across the keyboard for each one.

I never use CapsLock, like many people I disabled it but then realised it can be useful: I write my own name so many times …
and my next hotkey will be that ellipsis too and there are several commonly used words

Of course when surfing, on FF, we all know about .com with the CtrlEnter that’s what pushed me into automating so many others. I am not really very bright though because I bought a keyboard with many clearly marked hotkeys across the top on the function keys, I have had it for six or seven years and never used one yet!

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Of course, to answer your actual question: yes, manufacturers should have been doing this years ago by changing all the unused legacy IBM buttons.

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A bigger timesaver than Ctrl+Enter and its variants is to make sure you have address bar autofill and autosuggest on. Eg to go to the URL…
http://www.youtube.com/
…I only have to type…
y
…in my address bar, and press Enter after autofill.

Okay, that only works because I don’t visit Yahoo or other “y” sites more often than YouTube, but even when there are multiple autosuggests, my most popular is autofilled and ready for Enter. If that’s not what I want, I can either click another I want in the autosuggest dropdown, or type one or two extra letters to make the autofill be the site I want.

Lugh.
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