by Denis Lamarre
last updated October 19, 2018
easy
Description
When you’re working with a memo, letter, report or any other document where you need to write out the date, instead of typing it out on your keyboard, it’s quicker and easier to use a hotkey. With MS Word and Outlook, it is possible to insert the date using the Alt+Shift+D hotkey. With Excel, a different hotkey (Ctrl+;) is used. Some applications, however, do not have any hotkeys to insert the date. The following scripts will insert the current date stamp in any application (with the same hotkey):
Steps
1
Prepare your overlay
Choose an unassigned key on the Enterpad where you will assign the date stamp shortcut. Name it something appropriate, like "DATE".
2
Code installation
Copy and paste the following script in the AutoHotkey script template (Enterpad.ahk) at the location of the key you wish to assign.
001: SendInput %A_YYYY% %A_MMM% %A_DD% Return
More Info
The AutoHotkey documentation provides different ways of personalizing the date stamp script: https://autohotkey.com/docs/Variables.htm#date
If you would like to insert a time stamp instead of a date stamp, you can use the following command:
002: SendInput %A_Hour%:%A_Min%:%A_Sec% Return
