More Explanation
| • | Run Fingertips.exe It will hide itself in the Windows taskbar. |
| • | Press Ctrl + ` (grave) to bring up the Fingertips command window. You can do this from anywhere in Windows. |
| • | Type a command and press Enter to activate that command. Try 'ie', for instance, to start Internet Explorer (or 'ff' for FireFox). |
| • | Press the 'Edit', 'New' or 'Setup' button (Alt+E), or right-click the icon in the taskbar to bring up the configuration dialog, where you can set several options. |
| • | Type a new command, mnemonic, abbreviation (like 'cashflow') and press the 'New' button to link that new command to an application, a document, a URL or an action. |
| • | Add favorites in Internet Explorer (Ctrl+D) with names that do not contain spaces or punctuation. Fingertips will recognize these favorites as commands. |
| • | Press Ctrl+W anywhere in Windows to activate the 'Paste Unformatted' function in Fingertips. Select some formatted text somewhere on the web, and use Ctrl+W in Microsoft Word to see what a time-saver this feature can become to you. |
Command Parameters
Many commands can be appended with a parameter.
For instance, type 'g fingertips' to search for 'fingertips' in Google.
You can use {1}, {2}, {3}, {4}, {5}, {6}, {7}, {8}, {9} in your own commands for the first, second and further parameters.