Use Keyboard Macros to Prank Your Friends on April Fools Day

How to Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Prank Your Friends on April Fools Day

Are you tired of the same old April Fool's Day pranks year after year? If you are in a pinch for a prank this year, then look no further than FastFox Text Expander Software. With this simple program, you can create keyboard shortcuts to have your victim's most commonly used words and phrases changed as they type them to whatever you would like. For Fans of the US Television series The Office, you may remember the character Jim pranking his coworker, Dwight, by making it so every time Dwight typed his own name, the word "Diapers" was written instead.

Typically keyboard macros are used to make time-saving shortcuts for people who type a lot, but that doesn't mean they can't also be used for evil. This is a simple, safe and fun prank that can be set up quickly and will work on anyone. With these keyboard shortcuts, you will surely have your victim confused and bewildered while you bask in the glory of your hilarious office antics.

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Download FastFox to their Computer

If you are trying to prank a coworker or classmate, you will need to execute your plan while they are away. Download a copy of FastFox Text Expander Software to the computer that your victim will be typing on and then proceed to the next step. Simply click on one of the red download buttons on this page to start downloading.

Add Shortcuts

Open FastFox on your computer and then click on the Add Shortcuts button located in the top left of the program in the main toolbar. This will launch the New Simple Text Shortcut window where you can create your first shortcut. This is when you get to decide how you want your prank to unfold. You can create just one shortcut for a word they type often or you can create a list of shortcuts to high-jack everything they type for the day. Type the word you want to have changed in the Shortcut text box and then type the word or phrase you would like it to change to in the Expansion test box. Click on the OK button when you are ready to add your first shortcut.

After Setup

You can create your shortcuts or "Macros" one at a time and they will appear as list items in the main program window. Once you have added a shortcut like in the example above, it will begin working immediately. Test it out anywhere you would like. These shortcuts will remain in effect until removed and will function in any word processor, email client, chat application, and more.

Let the Good Times Roll

With your shortcuts set up, you can now sneak back to your own workspace and watch as your victim's day spirals out of control.

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Happy April Fool's Day from NCH Software!

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Most Common Medical Shorthand Abbreviations for Medical Transcriptionists

Software Tips and Tricks: Abbreviations to Use in Text Expander Programs for Medical Transcriptionists

Text Expander programs like FastFox have made it into part of the core toolkit used by medical transcribers next to dictation software and foot pedals.

Such macro software has shown to improve output as well as reduce the number of mistakes, something highly important in an environment where minor typos can affect a patient's medical history and assistance from spell check/autocorrect tools is nearly non-existent.

Below is a list of the most commonly used medical abbreviations, organized by usage type and alphabetically. This list has been optimized for Medical Transcriptionists to use in FastFox Shorthand Software.

How to use this list:

• Read the How-To article on using FastFox for Medical Transcription, and add the shortcuts/words accordingly.
• Remember that usage of terms changes drastically based upon the specialty of the doctor; these are just the most common medical phrases in use. Use the save/load list function of FastFox to change your abbreviation list quickly and easily to match your client's needs.

Anatomy/Physiology

• CNS central nervous system
• CSF cerebrospinal fluid
• ECF extracellular fluid
• ENT ear nose and throat
• GI gastrointestinal
• GU genitourinary
• ICF intracellular fluid
• IM intramuscular(ly)
• RBC red blood cell
• SC subcutaneous(ly)
• WBC white blood cell

Compound/Chemical

• HLA human leukocyte antigen
• PMN polymorphonuclear leukocyte
• ACE angiotensin-converting enzyme
• ACTH adrenocorticotropic hormone
• ADH antidiuretic hormone
• ALT alanine aminotransferase 
• AST aspartate aminotransferase 
• ATP adenosine triphosphate
• BCG bacille Calmette-Guérin
• Ca calcium
• cAMP cyclic adenosine monophosphate
• CK creatine kinase
• Cl chloride; chlorine
• CO2 carbon dioxide
• CPK creatine phosphokinase
• CPK-MB creatine phosphokinase muscle bandisoenzyme
• DNA deoxyribonucleic acid
• D/W dextrose in water
• G6PD glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
• Hb hemoglobin
• HCl hydrochloric acid; hydrochloride
• HCO3 bicarbonate
• Hg mercury
• HMG-CoA hydroxymethyl glutaryl coenzyme A
• IgA immunoglobin A
• IL interleukin
• K potassium
• LDH lactic dehydrogenase
• Mg magnesium
• N nitrogen
• Na sodium
• NaCl sodium chloride
• NSAID nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
• O2 oxygen
• P phosphorus
• PPD purified protein derivative 
• RNA ribonucleic acid
• soln solution

Disease/Diagnosis

• ABG arterial blood gas
• AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• BPD borderline personality disorder
• COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• DTP diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis(toxoids/vaccine)
• FUO fever of unknown origin
• GVHD Graft-versus-host disease
• HIV human immunodeficiency virus
• MI myocardial infarction
• RA rheumatoid arthritis
• SBE subacute bacterial endocarditis
• SIDS sudden infant death syndrome
• SLE systemic lupus erythematosus
• TB tuberculosis
• URI upper respiratory infection
• UTI urinary tract infection

Measurement/Test/Dosage

• bid 2 times a day
• BMR basal metabolic rate
• BP blood pressure
• BSA body surface area
• BUN blood urea nitrogen
• C Celsius; centigrade; complement
• CBC complete blood count
• cGy centigray
• Ci curie
• cm centimeter
• CT computed tomography
• Cu cubic
• dL deciliter
• ECG electrocardiogram
• EEG electroencephalogram
• ERCP endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
• ESR erythrocyte sedimentation rate
• F Fahrenheit
• Ft foot; feet
• G gram
• GFR glomerular filtration rate
• H hour
• Hct hematocrit
• Hz hertz 
• INR international normalized ratio
• IU international unit
• IVU intravenous urography
• Kcal kilocalorie
• Kg kilogram
• L liter
• lb pound
• M molar
• MCH mean corpuscular hemoglobin
• MCHC mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration
• mCi millicurie
• MCV mean corpuscular volume
• mEq Milliequivalent
• mg milligram
• MIC minimum inhibitory concentration
• mIU milli-international unit
• mL milliliter
• mm millimeter
• mmol millimole
• mo month
• mol molecular weight
• mOsm Milliosmole
• MRI magnetic resonance imaging
• Ng nanogram 
• Nm nanometer 
• Nmol nanomole
• oz ounce
• PAco2 alveolar carbon dioxide partial pressure
• PAo2 alveolar oxygen partial pressure
• PAS periodic acid-Schiff
• Pco2 carbon dioxide partial pressure
• PCR polymerase chain reaction
• PET positron emission tomography
• pg picogram
• pH hydrogen ion concentration
• Po2 oxygen partial pressure 
• ppm parts per million
• PT prothrombin time
• PTT partial thromboplastin time
• q every
• Sao2 arterial oxygen saturation
• SI International System of Units
• spgr specific gravity
• STS serologic test(s) for syphilis
• wt weight

Treatment/Care

• BR bedside rounds
• CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• D&C dilation and curettage
• ICU intensive care unit
• IPPB intermittent positive pressure breathing
• IV intravenous(ly)
• Npo nothing by mouth
• OTC over-the-counter 
• po orally
• prn as needed
• qid 4 times a day
• SSRI selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
• tid 3 times a day
• TPN total parenteral nutrition

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FastFox Text Expander Software by NCH

Everday Text Expansion

What do you type the most? your email address? your mailing address? maybe your phone number? or your web address? Are there any words you struggle to remember how to spell causing you to slow down and correct misspellings or typos? Or maybe you frequently browse to webpages just so you can copy and paste the links to make sure you get them correct.

We are all constantly typing, from emails to forms online, and some of the things we are typing we have to type all of the time. FastFox text expansion software lets you save those words or phrases so you can not only enter them in faster, but also avoid typos. Think of it like auto complete that will work anywhere on your computer, or like a super powered clipboard that can save much more than just one snippet of text at a time. You pick your own shortcuts and what they are short for, then whenever you type the shortcut it will be automatically replaced. So, typing something like :em could be all you need to type to enter your email address, or you could just type :sig to add a signature to the end of an email, a comment you're making on a forum. Anywhere you type, if you enter one of your text shortcuts FastFox will automatically replace it with the expanded text.

The possibilities are endless, you don't need to be a typist or transcriptionist to find things that would make useful text shortcuts, just think, what do you type the most often? Once you've created shortcuts for those common items and phrases you will wonder what you ever did without them. Spend less time typing with this fast, everyday solution.

Speed Up Typing Using Keyboard Shortcut Software

FastFox text expander software used to insert your most commonly used text quickly and easily. Expand words, phrases, images, and more to avoid typing things repeatedly and improve your typing speed and productivity.

FastFox is perfect for everyone whether you are saving shortcuts for the correct spelling of complex terminology, storing email templates and answers to FAQs, or even save your address to fill in online forms more quickly. To help you get started we just put together a tutorial video to walk you through setting up your own keyboard shortcuts and introduce you to the autocomplete text suggestion tool.

Download the free trial today. Once you get started using FastFox shorthand text expander to speed up your typing, you'll wonder what you ever did without it.

Q is for Quick

NCH Software ABCs Series

If you are looking for a fast solution you have come to the right place. Just like our efforts to provide you with easy-to-use software, we are constantly striving to improve our programs so that they can get you up and running quickly. From speedy downloads, fast installations, quick start guides and wizards a lot of thought goes into getting you as close to the solution you were looking for in three minutes. For example, you can download any of our file converters and go from download to converted in minutes, if not seconds, because who has time to waste learning a program when what you really want is a file in a different format?

If you are not just looking for a fast solution but something that will speed up other day to day tasks we have a few programs that fit that bill as well. Take FastFox Text Expander Software, which allows you to set up your own shortcuts and macros to help you zip through typing or repeated tasks on your computer. Or any transcriptionist can tell you how much time they can save by using Express Scribe Transcription Playback Software when typing from an audio file, and that is just scratching the surface. For more Quick Software solutions be sure to check out the entire NCH Software collection.

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O is for Optimize

NCH Software ABCs Series

We are obsessed with speed. Today, everything is going faster than it used to, from just the general pace of life to Olympians setting new world records to internet speeds. Faster is better and optimizing your computer and tasks is about both speed and efficiency to cut away the dead weight and streamline your processes.

• To optimize your PC when your computing speeds are lagging, use Warp Registry Cleaning Software to clear out some of the unneeded data that can be dragging it down.
• To speed up your typing, download KeyBlaze Typing Tutor for practice, drills and games to help condition your fingers for flying across the keyboard.
• Add some shortcuts for things you commonly type with the aid of FastFox Text Expander to cut out the repetition and make your typing even more efficient.
• To slim down in addition to speeding up, reduce the size of files and save space on your hard drive with Express Zip Compression Software or use our media converters to compress individual audio, video and image files.

That's just a sample, but with so many easy-to-use software applications available at NCH you are sure to find more programs that will make your life and your tasks faster and easier.

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Productivity Increase on Ebay with FastFox

These days it's impossible to go anywhere without running into someone who's bought or sold something on Ebay. At any given time there are over 100 million active auction listings and each one of those was added by a seller. That's a lot of hours of work if you have several items you are selling on Ebay. I have been a seller on Ebay, and the biggest annoyance and time waster for me was repeatedly typing similar Ebay listings. Or at least it was until I found FastFox.

FastFox is a text expander for Windows or Mac. A text expander, or textexpander, is a form of shorthand software that allows you to paste a chunk of text by typing in a predefined shortcut term. This is much more valuable than a normal copy and paste feature because it can hold many shortcuts each with it's own text value associated with it. How a typing expander works is you set your shortcut term, then set your expanded text in FastFox, and once you type the shortcut term in any browser or program you have instant text conversion to the expanded text.

Now you must be asking "How can this help me to be faster when listing on Ebay?" Well, if you're like me you've dealt with listing hundreds of similar products at one time. Repeatedly typing similar text into my listing software feels like a waste of time. What I like to do is create FastFox shortcuts for all of my auction elements that are the same or remain very similar, and then make small edits as needed. It has quadrupled my productivity while listing.

My example deals with selling baseball cards. I would list a couple hundred baseball cards on Ebay at one time. All of them were from the same year and all of them were similar quality of cards. An auction title read something like: "1961 Topps - Harmon Killebrew #80 - Excellent Condition." The only things that would change in each new auction was the player's name and the card number. With FastFox I could create a basic shortcut that said: "1961 Topps - # - Excellent Condition" and fill in the other information for each card. As soon as I typed in my shortcut, "TITLE," I had most of it finished.

Where this really picked things up was in the category and description of the auction. All of my auctions were in the same category, so filling that out was as simple as typing one shortcut. It really helped to not have to go through and find the correct category. It also eliminated me putting a few cards in the wrong category. Lastly and most important was the description. No more Description Builder! With FastFox I could create a description one time and simply enter the shortcut and add in the player's name and card number. This new way of listing products really sped up my Ebay auction listing process and ended in higher profits over a shorter timeframe.

Learn more about FastFox typing expander on the NCH Software website.

Be Fast as a Fox with FastFox Text Expander Software

Hello! I'm Audrey. I just started working in the sales department at NCH Software about a month ago, and I already found my new best friend; it's FastFox Text Expander Software! You see, I send out a lot of emails answering sales inquiries, so instead of typing the same information over and over again, I assigned my email letter to a unique word in Fast Fox such as "salesinquiry". All I have to do is type my unique word/shortcut and BANG it expands to the five-paragraph email like magic. How brilliant is that? I wish I had known about this wonderful software earlier in my career. My tasks would have been a whole heck of a lot easier!

So take my advice and start using FastFox to be more efficient, like me! Simply download the free trial of FastFox Text Expander Software and you can immediately start creating your own shortcuts that will expand to a word, phrase, paragraph or more. Use your new shortcuts in emails, word documents web browsers and more to speed up all your typing tasks. Once you get started you won't want to ever type without it again.

Break Free From The Groundhog Day Typing Tedium

Most people are familiar with the movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray gets trapped living the same day over and over again. While it is a funny film, I can't help but sympathize with his frustration and how hard he tries to break out of the routine and tedium of living the same thing over and over again. One thing I like about my job is that every day is different. It is nice to have different things to do to help keep things fresh, but even more dynamic jobs can have a hint of a repetitive undercurrent. On the bright side, using FastFox text expansion software helps reduce some of the monotony by helping you get through some of those tasks faster. By saving frequently used text such as answers to common questions, descriptions of the company or various products, or even phrases that you are bound to misspell or waste time correcting, you’ll get on to the next challenge quicker. And since Punxsutawney Phil forecast an early spring, using FastFox shorthand software also means you’ll get to enjoy spring sooner.

Stop Typing the Same Things Over and Over Again

Have you ever noticed that there are some things that you type all of the time? Some of the most common things that I find myself typing all of the time include the company description of NCH Software, a signature for when I leave comments on blogs or forums, and even a couple of answers to FAQs that seem to be constantly popping up in my email inbox, just to name a few. Being able to store these pieces of text with FastFox Text Expander is a huge help. Instead of looking up the information from the last time I answered a question, or wasting the time to write the whole thing I've typed a million times before all over again, I just need to type a couple characters and FastFox automatically expands that keyboard shortcut I chose into the complete answer/description/signature that I stored. Then I can quickly move on, or make minor edits to the text for the specific situation, and still be done in a fraction of the time.

Text Expansion Software is often sold to transcriptionists because of the boost it provides in typing efficiency. It really is an invaluable tool for helping medical and legal transcriptionists transcribe faster and reduce errors with long or complex terms and jargon, but truth be told, almost anyone can find things that they themselves type repeatedly and can benefit from having an application like FastFox to reduce this constant repetition in typing.

FastFox Word Expander - Complete Medical Transcription Quickly & Easily

One of our oldest and most popular applications is Express Scribe transcription playback software. This is a popular transcription software utility for typists but it is only of the applications we have that a transcriptionists should consider for their arsenal. Anyone who does large volumes of typing for anything from a legal office to medical transcription or customer support where you need to type out the same thing repeatedly will also find the FastFox Typing Expander a priceless typing utility.

If you are looking for a faster way to type out complex phrases or more efficiently download FastFox Typing Expander then create your own shortcut hot key commands for all the common phrases, words or responses you want to store. Add complex legal or medical terminology to reduce misspelling and mistakes for added efficiency.

1. Open FastFox and click on the green '+' icon, or press CTR+N (CMD+N on Mac) to create a new shortcut.
   
2. Enter the shorthand abbreviation for the shortcut in the "Keyword" field
   
3. If you need complex formatting such as color, font and weight (e.g. bold or italics) select "Rich Text" from the drop down menu.
   
4. Place your complex medical term or other text in the "Expansion" field
   
5. Save and repeat for all the terminology you want shorthand expanders for
   
6. Then with FastFox running in the background you can use your new shortcut in any word processor, your shorthand will automatically expand for you.
   

Tip: Avoid using common words for your shortcuts since every time you type one of your shortcuts FastFox will expand it with your linked text.