I'm currently setting up Keyboard Maestro to control menu functionality in apps like Outlook/Excel/Word etc etc.
I'm currently adding menu items as I go, manually, and I was wondering whether there was a smarter way to achieve this? It would be great if I could somehow get Keyboard Maestro to automatically set up the facility to be able to <select menu> item for all menu items somehow.
I don't know if this is possible, or if I've explained it very well, but any advice appreciated!
Thanks Chris, I'm LOVING Keyboard Maestro. I'm using it with a bunch of music production applications and it's incredible.
Is there any repository availble for downloading this sort of thing? It feels as though a lot of people are probably duplicating work, and I'd be happy to contribute (for example) a ready-made setup for Outlook or Excel or something that others could download, especially if I could piggy-back on the work of others as well - anything that lightens the load!
Spend at least a little time familiarizing yourself with the Keyboard Maestro Editor – you'd be surprised at how many users completely miss that features they want already exist.
Look through all the menus – you won't remember everything, but your mind will establish a framework of what to look for and where.
Peek through the Keyboard Maestro Editor's preferences.
The Keyboard Maestro actions panel in the editor (Cmd-K), and its search field.
The “Insert …” menu items in the Keyboard Maestro Editor's Edit menu – especially the keyboard shortcuts for same.
These are very useful for inserting Actions, Text-Tokens, Functions(), Variables, and Date-Strings – and for searching for same.
Help is available for a startling number of things.
Press the Option key while looking through the menus – you'll find quick access to Help for given items.
Note that the Editor's Insert dialogs have a help a help link for the wiki page associated with that item.
Actions have a gear menu with options, and you can also right-click on the action to display the same contextual menu, and these contextual menus contain a help item.
Thanks Chris, yeah, I'd seen the list (sure it's a bit dated, but there's useful stuff in there).
Never mind, I guess I'll just have to grit my teeth and do the legwork.
Drat! (esp. given the authoritative nature of a ccstone assertion)
When yesterday I came across a post with this gif:
I was hopeful there'd be some way to do this. (Lost the tab and not sure where I found that^)
I'm lazy so I'll probably continue using Alfred but I would learn a lot by building this out in KBM. (Wouldn't complain it were available natively or built for me, though, it'd immediately start helping me learn keyboard shortcuts. ... Reminds me I've only recorded a few of my shortcuts in a spreadsheet... )
I can't wait to try one... or both! of these out, EmmCeeSq and kevinb. Nerd-stoked, thank you
I'm encouraged to see three separate product solutions since thinking wishfully, I'm hoping it's a favorable indication on the feasibility front. No telling what Keyboard Maestro v. y2035 might hold...
OK, took another look, and am installing Menuwhere b/c this was funny:
Many years ago, until it become incompatible with the OS, I used to run a similar utility that was called "DejaMenu". I suppose that was also a fair attempt at humour.
The end of DejaMenu is what led to Menuwhere—I, too, used it until it didn't work any more. Then I told Peter (Many Tricks' Peter, not Keyboard Maestro's Peter) that we had to replace it, because I simply couldn't work without it :).
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