With macro's you can record your keyboard keystrokes and mouse movements. When you have to do repetitive keyboard and / or mouse movements in a program you can record them with a macro and play them back with a hotkey. Macro's are extremely powerful when doing repetitive text editing.

Macro Record

Create a macro recording hotkey with the command = Macro Record, hotkey = Control + Shift + R. When you press this hotkey the HotKeyz tray icon will change from black to red to indicate that you are busy recording a macro. When you are finished recording your macro, press this hotkey again (Control + Shift + R) and the HotKeyz tray icon will change from red to black indicating that you have finished recording the macro. You will be prompted to give your macro a name. This will be the name of the macro file with a *.mcr extension. This file will be located by default in the HotKeyz.exe folder. After specifying the macro file name HotKeyz will determine if this filename has been used with another hotkey. If not it will open the New Hotkey screen so that you can define a macro playback hotkey for the recorded macro. If the macro file is already set up to be used by another hotkey you can now simply press that hotkey combination to play the recorded macro back.

Make sure you use a descriptive filename to differentiate between all your macros. Also remember if you are backing up your HotKeyz folder it is important to copy all the *.mcr files to your backup directory.

Macro Play

Create a macro playback hotkey with the command = Macro Play, parameter = macro filename, hotkey = Control + Shift + P. You can select the macro file from the open file button in the parameter tab. When you press this hotkey (Control + Shift + P) the HotKeyz tray icon will briefly change from black to blue to show you that HotKeyz is busy playing your macro.

Macro Loop

Create a macro playback loop hotkey with the command = Macro Loop, parameter = filename, hotkey = Control + Shift + L. You can select the macro file from the open file button in the parameter tab. When you press this hotkey the HotKeyz tray icon will change from black to blue to show you that it is busy playing your macro.

The macro will play repetitively until you press the Macro Loop hotkey again so that the HotKeyz tray icon change from blue to black.