Direct Access

Speed up your personal computing experience by reducing time consuming, repetitive task through the use of abbreviations. For example, quickly answer emails, or launch your favorite applications or websites by typing a word in any application.

Features: Direct Access is a powerful word and text expander application for Windows. You are able to use text abbreviations for a full text phrase. The utility will automatically replace the abbreviation with the full text. You would be able to speed up your personal computing experience by reducing time consuming, repetitive tasks. You can use the abbreviation shortcuts to open applications and websites. You can even set up custom menus, for example grouping standard tech support answers and signatures. Whatever application you are using, if you type an abbreviation, Direct Access suggests a command via a tooltip. Pressing the Shift key confirms replacement. This would be very useful for tech support and customer support where a lot of communication are of standard form and can be typed in by a few abbreviations. On top of that, Direct Access can also quickly open your favorite applications and folders, create precompiled emails, fire up the browser with your favorite websites and carry out web searches.

Macro feature lets you customize the way commands get executed. You are able to enter current date, special symbols, insert clipboard contents and specify a cursor position when the command finishes execution. It is also possible to send special key combinations to an application or to fill a form via keyboard shortcuts. Have your favorite applications always easily accessible. Open Word, your documents folder, the calculator or any program typing just a few keystrokes. Instantly open your favorite websites and search YouTube, Google, Ebay, Amazon and many other site without leaving your current application.

Overall: Useful help in getting things done faster.

Speed up your personal computing experience by reducing time consuming, repetitive task through the use of abbreviations. Imagine typing a piece of correspondence in your favorite word processor and then typing the abbreviation "sign" to affix your closing and signature to the document. You can also use the abbreviation shortcuts to open applications and websites.
You can even set up custom menus, for example grouping standard tech support answers or signatures.
Whatever application you are using, if you type an abbreviation, Direct Access suggests a command via a tooltip. If you press the SHIFT key, Direct Access performs the command and removes the abbreviation. If you ignore the suggestion and just keep working, the tooltip vanishes.
Direct Access is great for tech support, providing you with canned, pre-written and customizable replies that you can enter by just typing a word.
The new macro feature provides personalized text when executing a command: you can also enter the current date, special symbols, insert the clipboard contents and, for your convenience, even specify the final cursor position.
You can also use Direct Access to perform basic automation tasks using the ability to send special keys combinations to the target application, for example to automatically perform an operation in any program via keyboard shortcuts or fill in forms.
Direct Access can be used to perform many tasks quicker and more precisely. For example, you can use it to execute commands by typing user-defined abbreviations across all applications; save time on repetitive tasks: open files, documents, websites, and insert text just by typing a word; open your favorite websites by typing a meaningful name; automatically search the web - Google, Wikipedia or Amazon are just a few keystrokes away; insert the same autotext anywhere - even in applications without built-in autotext; breeze through e-mails using combinations of boiler-plate text.