Quick question - shortcut for today's date?

[Lawrence Cooke]

Just wondering if there is a quick way to type today's date (e.g. CTRL SHIFT D)?

 

[Armageus]

SHIFT+ALT+D in Microsoft Word

 

[Lawrence Cooke]

Thanks! Is there anything that is universal and not software-specific?

 

[Armageus]

Nothing inbuilt that I'm aware of.

You could probably use something like https://autohotkey.com/ to create a system wide hotkey

Some discussion here:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/21387-how-to-insert-current-date-into-a-hotkey/

 

[Lawrence Cooke]

Cheers, I'll check that out.

 

[AHarvey]

Autohotkey is great, I use it for lots of little things especially text replacement. It'll easily do what you want.

Create the script, output as an exe and then add it to the startup folder so it boots each time you load windows.

 

[Scort]

F5 in Notepad

 

[Tealc]

CTRL + ; for date
CTRL + SHIFT + ; for current time

In Excel

Not sure how to get date and time in one keystroke.

 

[Lawrence Cooke]

Thanks for the comments

This Autohotkey script should work?

:R*?:ddd::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, dd/MM/yy
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return
:R*?:xxx::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyMMddHHmmss
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return
:R*?:aaa::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyMMdd
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return
:R*?:jjd::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, dd-MM-yy
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return
:R*?:yyy::
FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, dd-MM-yy HH:mm
SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return