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Does Smart Keyboard have a date time stamp macro. For example the Firekey Keyboard allows you to assign a macro to a sequence of keys. So you can assign the date macro to the key sequence dt so when you type dt the option to automatically enter the date comes up along with other suggested words.
I am not especially fond of the way the Firekey keyboard works in other ways which is why I am looking for an alternative keyboard that will insert date time into my documents. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.
Custom AutoText
AutoText feature consists in replacing automatically a word by another one, or even by a multi-line text, such as a signature. You can also use AutoText to define auto-correction for common mistakes. Use the custom AutoText editor to define your own shortcuts. In the "Edit AutoText" dialog, the first field must be a single word, but the second field can by any multi-line text. You can use several macros inside your shortcut (starting with % character). Available macros are:
%t : short time (8:24)
%T : long time (8:24:12)
%d : short date (10/24/2010)
%D : long date (Tue, Sep 21, 2010)
%% : '%' character
Important: shortcuts cannot contain characters that are word separators, such as periods, commas, etc.