Word-processing style keyboard shortcuts

[mbitty]

I’m looking for a way to make my (MS) Word keyboard shortcuts universal - that is, in Word, I have programmed not only primitive shortcuts like 'go to the next word’ (which I know is universal across osX) but slightly more sophisticated ones like ‘delete sentence,’ ‘go to next page,’ – still very basic word processing commands, but customized to work on a keyboard without using anything other than alphanumeric keys and control/command/option keys.
Is there a way to make those kinds of shortcuts work across all programs with KM? (Mostly I’m concerned about gmail, which forces you to type with virtually no keyboard shortcuts.)
Thank you all.

[iampariah]

They should be possible. Have you tried building them in Keyboard Maestro?

[mbitty]

I don’t really know what that means - but I could play around.

[appleianer]

@mbitty

I'm looking for a way to make my (MS) Word keyboard shortcuts universal - that is, in Word, I have programmed not only primitive shortcuts like 'go to the next word’ (which I know is universal across osX) but slightly more sophisticated ones like 'delete sentence,' 'go to next page,' – still very basic word processing commands, but customized to work on a keyboard without using anything other than alphanumeric keys and control/command/option keys.

I use KM pallets in any app. In a palette, I have deposited actions. As an example here my way of working with the App Snagit

I need only a shortcut for many actions / macros and do not even notice this one. Maybe this is something for you.

[JMichaelTX]

Create a KM Macro with the Trigger (KM Wiki) of the word-processing shortcut you want, and then use the Select or Show a Menu Item action (KM Wiki) to achieve the action you want.

@mbitty

I have programmed not only primitive shortcuts like 'go to the next word’ (which I know is universal across osX) but slightly more sophisticated ones like 'delete sentence,' 'go to next page,'

All of these have standard macOS shortcuts that generally work across all apps. See Mac keyboard shortcuts.

Here is a subset from my Evernote Note on this:

Move the insertion point To:

CMD-Right Arrow	end of the current line
CMD-Left Arrow	beginning of the current line
CMD-Down Arrow	end of the document
CMD-Up Arrow	beginning of the document
OPT-Left Arrow	beginning of the previous word.
OPT-Right Arrow	end of the next word.
OPT-Down Arrow	end of the current paragraph
OPT-Up Arrow	beginning of the current paragraph

[Jim_Jamz]

See this post – I used to create individual rules for different programs until is saw something similar.

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