Insert common phrases, launch applications and answer emails in a snap

Direct Access auto type program can help you perform many different tasks

	Insert frequently used text blocks (Autotext) Type a word and expand it into a full phrase. For example, your can type "soc" to enter your social security number, "web" to enter your website address. You can also use it to enter entire paragraphs. For your convenience, you can customize your autotext using macros to enter a personalized piece of text, the current time and date or a special symbol. Autotext can also contain formatted text and pictures. If you find yourself typing the same text over and over again, the autotext can save a lot of time for you. You can also use Autotext commands to control any application sending special characters and key combination, filling forms and do basic automation thanks to the new Direct Access Special Keys macro.
	Open programs, files and folders Stop browsing through folders and menus looking for what you know you want. Need to launch Microsoft Excel? Just enter and trigger the word "excel" when the thought occurs to you. Need to open your folder that contains accounting information? Just type the word "account" and the folder comes to you. Name all your most frequently used programs, files, and folders, and have them available instantly! You can also open multiple applications at the same time.
	Navigate and search the Internet Stop digging through browser bookmarks and history to find that web site address you want. Stop typing in URLs. Need to get to the CNN web site? Just enter and trigger the word "cnn" when feel like it and the web site comes up. Direct Access can also query the web for you: looking for a definition on Wikipedia or finding a word definition on an online dictionary is just a few keystrokes away. Name all your favorite web sites and have them available instantly! You can also open multiple websites at the same time.
	Send emails Assign your most frequent recipients an abbreviation. When ever you want to send an email just type the abbreviation. For example, enter and trigger "boss" to instantly create a new e-mail message pre-addressed to your boss.

Text expanding and substitution

If you find yourself typing the same text over and over again, the autotext feature of this text entry tool can save you a lot of time.

• Get direct access to your favorite text snippets, boilerplate texts, websites and applications by typing an abbreviation in any application
• Create snippets of text and pictures that you want to have always available and insert them in any application typing an abbreviation – this is ideal for inserting your signature, for example.
• Save time keeping all the information you need at your fingertips
• Execute commands immeditaly as you type an abbreviation or after pressing SHIFT on the confirmation tooltip
• Customize the executed command thanks to macro expansions
• Control any application sending individual keystrokes

Automatically correct typos and misspelled words in any application

• Automatically correct your spelling mistakes in any application
• Autocorrections CommandPacks are available for many different languages

Extended Clipboard with Clipboard History

• Automatically store up to 99 items you copied into the clipboard and easily retrieve them pressing CTRL+SHIFT+V
• Directly convert the text you copied into the clipboard into an autotext for quick reuse

Share and distribute data across your company network and multiple computers

• Define a set of stock phrases, web resources, applications that needs to be available on the network
• Every user of the network gets access to boiler plate text, macros, and commonly used applications
• Easily define user permission setting the appropriate file system permissions. No need to install server applications: share your commands in few minutes
• Commands sharing is as easy as putting a file in a shared folder

Speed Typing

• Type special characters without using an external application
• Automatically correct spelling mistakes and increase your typing accuracy
• Position the cursor at any position in the expanded phrase
• Customize the expanded text requesting additional information at runtime
• Insert the current date and time (shift time and date in the past/future)
• Case sensitive text expansion to correctly preserve the case of the typed abbreviation
• Create pre-filled emails

Launching applications

• Type an abbreviation anywhere to launch your favorite application or folder
• Type an abbreviation in a common dialog to expand it to the full path
• No browsing through complex directory structure to get to your files
• Assign abbreviations to Groups to display a list of commands and use the keyboard to select them

Web Browsing

• Instantly open your favorite websites
• Quickly search for contents on your favorite websites
• Many sites are preconfigured to quickly search for contents in Wikipedia, Google, IMDB, YouTube

Building and organizing your commands library

• Direct Access comes with a precompiled library of commands to perform many operations out of the box
• Import autocorrections for Microsoft Word and other competitor text-expander tools
• Add commands as you need them using hotkeys (CTRL+SHIFT+W for Autotext, CTRL+SHIFT+A for Launch Applications)
• Organize commands into groups for easy access
• Export/Import commands to Command Packs for easy share between users and different PCs
• Instant search, to quickly browse through your abbreviations
• Use the Hub to add new commands via drag & drop
• Customize the confirmation key