4/28/2023 0 Comments Automating keystrokesNow in Automator I've got this Watch Me Do action. So Command left arrow, Shift Command right arrow, Shift right arrow, Command X, down, Command V, up. Then I'm going to repeat my keyboard sequence. Now I'll click on TextEdit to activate it. Then I'll go back here and I'll hit Record and now Automator is recording. I'm going to put the cursor in some random spot in the middle of a line so it's ready to simulate what I want to do. But first let me set things up in this file here. Now I'm going to use the Record button here to record Watch Me Do. I'm going to then go ahead and set it to Receives No Input. So in Automator here I'm going to create a new document that's a Quick Action. First let's start off by doing it in Automator using Watch Me Do. We could do that series of keyboard commands with just one action and we could do it several ways. So I did the entire thing with a short series of keyboard commands. For good measure the up arrow to go to the beginning of the line we just pasted. The carriage return or line feed at the end there. Then a single Shift right arrow to select one more character. Shift Command right arrow to select everything to the end of the line. I could Command left arrow to go to the beginning of the line. So let's place the cursor in the middle of the line in a random spot. Or I could just user keyboard shortcuts for it. I could Command X to cut, click on the beginning of the next line and Command B to paste. A triple click will do it or I can drag and slide from the beginning. Now I could do that by selecting the line any number of ways. So here I am in TextEdit and let's say I want to switch this line and this line. The example I'm going to use here is switching two lines. Here are three methods of repeating a sequence of keys. Well, you can do this many different ways on your Mac. It would be great to have a shortcut that goes through that sequence rather than having to do all those key presses. So let's say you have to repeat a series of keystrokes all the time in order to accomplish a task. MacMost is supported by more than 500 viewers just like you. Today let me show you how to repeat a series of key presses on your Mac using only a single click or keyboard shortcut. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out 3 Ways To Automate Keystroke Sequences On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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