FLG Hotkeys Changelog
Current Beta:
2026.10
- Bitmapping Updates:
- The
Shift key modifier preserves the full-size image during processing. This can cause very large images to be saved, so be judicious with using this mode.
- Adjusted Bitmap processing sequence so that autocrop works properly on images that have a light gray background.
- If a single rectangle is selected in PowerPoint when invoking the Bitmapper, that shape will be treated as a “frame” and the processed image will be inserted into it automatically.
- The original image data is now preserved on the clipboard during processing. This means that if the original bitmapping pass doesn’t generate the desired results, you don’t need to re-clip the image before opening it in Photoshop/GIMP.
- If PowerPoint is not running, a PNG of the processed image is saved to the Desktop as Bitmap_<timestamp>.png.
- Bug fix related to preventing the Start Menu from appearing when bitmapping. (Thanks, Steve!)
- PowerPoint:
- Similar to the “Footer” alignment function, aligning a shape horizontally within a slide frame now takes into account a “Sidebar” object if one is found in the Master, the Layout, or on the slide itself. Multiple alignments will toggle between “sidebar-aware” and “slide-bounds” alignment modes.
- When typing in a Text Box,
Shift+NumpadSubtract now types an en-dash (–). This compliments the pre-existing Shift+NumpadAdd hotkey for a colon (:), making entering page:ln–ln pin cites more convenient so that your fingers don’t have to leave the numpad when using en-dashes.
- Added Synchronize Formats and Unlink Formats buttons to the Artwork group of the FLG Hotkeys Ribbon:
- Synchronize Formats updates every shape in the presentation that is linked to a Formats Template preset (including shapes inside groups) so that it matches that preset’s current formatting in the Formats Template Master.
- Unlink Formats removes the Formats Template link from the selected shapes (or from every shape in a selected group), so Synchronize Formats no longer changes them.
- Hold
Shift when clicking either button to skip the confirmation dialog.
- New Save/Restore Panel Layout hotkeys. Arrange your editing panels (Format, Animation, Selection, Comments, Notes, and the slide thumbnails) the way you like them, then:
- Press
Win+Shift+Alt+O to save the layout.
- Press
Win+Shift+O in any PowerPoint window to bring that layout back.
- Removed Fulcrum branding from Formats Template Master.
- New system-wide hotkeys for en-dash (
Alt+-), em-dash (Alt+Shift+-), and ellipsis (Alt+;).
- New system-wide hotkey to Center Current Window on Screen (
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C).
- Title Case (
Win+T) Updates:
- In PowerPoint and Word, Title Case now preserves the selected text’s formatting (bold, italics, colors, fonts, etc.).
- In PowerPoint, if one or more shapes are selected (rather than text inside a shape), the text in each selected shape is title-cased.
- Other applications continue to paste the result as plain text.
- Patent number apostrophes are now also corrected when encountering 4-digit patent numbers with a comma (e.g., ’1,234).
- Straight quotes are now converted to curly quotes (“ ” ‘ ’), and decades get a proper apostrophe (e.g., ’90s).
- Fixed a bug where a specific apostrophe syntax would cause capitalization errors.
- Added a new Transcript Processing Options… interface that allows for some additional, optional processing functionality.
- Added an option for Auto-Format Q/A Markers. When enabled, it will make the Q/A markers bold for applications that support it. Additionally, in PowerPoint, if a textbox is selected and has special Q/A formatting, the paste function attempts to preserve the existing formatting conventions.
- Other processing options are togglable, and not all options are implemented yet.
- Added a new Save/Set Explorer Column Widths feature in File Explorer. This is very useful for making columns readable in Box Drive, which does not respect the default Windows column settings:
- This feature must be enabled separately in FLG Hotkeys > Settings > Enable File Explorer Column Resizer.
- When in Details View in File Explorer, set your desired column widths by pressing
Alt+Ctrl+E.
- When viewing another window, you can quickly recall the saved settings with
Ctrl+E.
- Added Box to the system Trusted Sites list so that documents don't always open in read-only mode.
2026.09 (2026-09-16)
⚠ Due to underlying changes in the FLG Hotkeys built-in updater, v2026.09 is a breaking build and users will need to manually update! Once v2026.09 or later is installed, the standard updating mechanism will continue to work as expected. Please pardon our dust!
- FLG Hotkeys is now compatible with 64-bit Office. Finally.
- Revamped the Image Bitmapping process. Transparency processing is now done externally, meaning that haloing is no longer an issue on 64-bit PowerPoint. Larger images (especially very tall patent callouts) should retain more detail than they previously did.
Win+B: Standard autocrop+bitmapping process. Resulting image will be up to 4000px on the long edge. Image is non-destructively scaled to fit onto the slide.- +
Ctrl Modifier: Skip automatic cropping. Resulting image will be up to 4000px on the long edge.
- +
Shift Modifier: Do not resize the image; insert into PPT at full resolution. Warning: This method may result in VERY large images that could either slow down or crash PowerPoint and may increase file size dramatically. You’ve been warned.
- The
Ctrl and Shift modifiers may be combined.
- New Timestamp hotkey:
Win+Ctrl+T. Types the current timestamp in US/Eastern timezone per IMS timestamping format (YYMMDD_HHMM). Use the Shift modifier to force the timezone to UTC instead of US/Eastern.
- Addresses an issue where the user could not vertically align a shape when editing a Slide Master or Slide Layout.
- Updated underlying 'nconvert' library to v7.301.
2026.06 (2026-06-05)
- PowerPoint:
- If slides are selected in the Outliner panel, the Paste to All function will only paste onto selected slides. If the selection focus is not in the Outliner, then all slides will be affected.
- Updated backend image library.
2025.08 (2025-08-08)
- PowerPoint:
- Fixed an issue in the Slice Shape function that caused new slices to be layered incorrectly on top of other objects.
- The Distribute Horizontally/Vertically functions now toggle between “width/height-based” and “centerpoint” modes. “Width/height-based” mode is the original method and gives equal spacing between the slide boundaries and each of the objects. “Centerpoint” mode distributes shapes across the slide based on their centerpoints rather than their dimensions.
- When exporting images for PPTs whose file names begin with PDX-#, DDX-#, CDX-#, or RDX-# (where “#” is any number) and Exhibit Stamps have been used in the slide deck, the name of the exported images will match the Exhibit Stamp.
2025.05
- Fixed a bug in the PowerPoint Add-In where exporting slides to PPT could generate a spurious “The specified value is out of range.” error for some files.
- Removed the
Ctrl+' shortcut to generate a Right Single Quote character (’).
- PowerPoint Ribbon:
- Added Paste to All function to paste clipboard to all slides.
- Added Export Deck as Shuffled PPT option to shuffle the current slide deck into a new Presentation with random order. The first slide is always kept as the first slide.
2024.07 (2024-12-10)
- PowerPoint:
- New Per-Document Style Overrides are now available. Documentation will be forthcoming.
- Centering a shape vertically within a slide frame now takes into account the slide's Title area. In addition, if an object named "Footer" is found on the Slide, in its Layout, or on the Master, the footer's size and position is also taken into consideration for alignment. Subsequent invocations of the function will toggle between “title/footer-aware” and “slide-bounds” alignment modes.
- Note: The search order for a "Footer" element is Slide > Layout > Master, and the first match found is the one that is used.
- Slice Shape has reduced slice overlap and now defaults to ungrouped slices. Holding
Shift will cause the resulting slices to be grouped.
- Updated the Ribbon exporter functions to remove version numbers from Exchange PDFs, fixed an error that could be caused by extra spaces in a document's file name, and preserve PPT document properties when exporting slides.
2024.06 (2024-08-25)
- Multi-Window Scroll changes:
- Activation is now toggled with
Win+PageDown (this allows Esc to still be used while Multi-Scroll is active).
- While editing text in PowerPoint, the
PageDown, PageUp, Home, and End keys will not activate Multi-Scroll.
- PowerPoint:
- New Slice Shape hotkey:
Alt+L, Ctrl+Alt+L. Prompts the user for number of slices and divides the selected shapes into that number of slices with a slight overlap. The default configuration slices into rows and the Ctrl variant slices into columns. Useful for creating multi-line highlights. Hold Shift to prevent grouping of slices at the end of the operation.
- Fixed a bug in the Framing tool that caused a frame to always be sent immediately underneath the shape it framed, even if it was already below the target shape, causing highlights and other markup to be hidden by the framing element.
- PowerPoint Add-In:
- The Export Exchange-Ready PDF utility now prompts the user for whether to include hidden slides in the exported PDF if they are detected in the presentation.
- The Slide and Deck Export utilities no longer attempt to “smart rename” exported files when the source document has an exhibit number in its file name.
- Single-slide image exports now zero-pad based on the number of slides in the original deck so that files will be sorted properly.
2024.05 (2024-05-15)
- New system-wide hotkey: Multi-Window Scrolling: Select multiple windows that will respond to
PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End keys, allowing scrolling through multiple windows simultaneously. To use:
- Activate the multi-scroll Window Selection Mode with
Win+PageUp or Win+PageDown.
- Press
Space to toggle the active window for multi-scroll. Select as many windows as desired by clicking on them and pressing Space.
- Once all desired windows are selected, press
Enter to commit the selection and begin Multi-Window Scrolling. All presses of PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End will be sent to all selected windows.
- At any time, press
Win+PageUp/Win+PageDown to go back to Window Selection Mode.
- Press
Esc to cancel the selection and exit Multi-Window Scrolling.
- PowerPoint:
- Hotkeys that change shape sizes now scale the shape from its center rather than the top left corner.
- Fixed a bug where
Win+Alt+Shift+Down was not centering shapes on the slide.
- Title Case: Increased timeout thresholds in an attempt to prevent issues when PowerPoint is slow to respond.
2024.04 (2024-03-06)
- PowerPoint Add-In:
- New Animation Re-Timer button, which allows delaying a range of Animation cues by a specified number of seconds.
- Note that we cannot detect which cues are selected in the Animation Pane (thanks, Microsoft!), so specifying the range of animations is done by entering the first and last Index numbers that the animations correspond to in the Animation Pane list (starting with 1). When entering a starting value, the ending value will automatically be set to the end of the current "With Previous" sequence of Animations.
- Delays can be set above the normal 59 second threshold and appear to work just fine.
- A few UI cleanups and minor bug fixes. Mixed HiDPI scaling on multiple displays causes problems with popup windows, so now all popups will be anchored to the top left of the current PowerPoint window.
- Adobe Acrobat / Foxit PDF Reader:
- Added a new Crosshairs Overlay feature. When holding
Ctrl+Alt, large crosshairs will appear, providing a clearer indicator of what will be included in a Snapshot.
- FLG Hotkeys:
- Added a Tools section to the FLG Hotkeys settings menu with a new Run System Integrity Check entry. The System Integrity Check requires Administrator access and runs the built-in
DISM and SFC utilities. Running this check every month or two will help ensure that Windows is running smoothly.
- Fixed a UI bug introduced in the 2024.03 update that prevented checkmarks from being cleared when toggling options off in the Settings menu.
2024.03 (2024-02-14)
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey to Align Vertically and Horizontally to Key Object:
Alt+Shift+Down. (This hotkey combines the behaviors of the Alt+Shift+Left and Alt+Shift+Up functions into a single hotkey for convenience.)
- System:
- Added a Disable File Explorer Preview Pane option to the FLG Hotkeys System Tray settings menu. The Preview pane can cause errors when opening documents in certain applications, including PowerPoint, so this setting remedies those errors by disabling the Preview pane feature entirely.
Note: This option requires that you authorize as an Administrator, so it will display a Windows UAC prompt when you request to change this setting. After changing the setting, a system reboot (or restart of explorer.exe) is required for the change to take effect.
2024.02 (2024-02-05)
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey to Rename Selected Shapes:
F2.
- A “#” character can be used as a placeholder anywhere in the new name and will be replaced by a sequence counter (shapes will be counted in the order they were selected).
- The PowerPoint built-in Toggle Text Edit Mode/Shape Selection feature on
F2 is remapped to F1 and the default PowerPoint “Help” panel activation on F1 is disabled.
- When a Group is selected and
Ctrl+3 is pressed to Hide Shapes, FLG Hotkeys attempts to hide only the top-level Group element. (Note that nested groups are not handled properly due to limitations in the PowerPoint API.)
- When grouping any shapes that have their Aspect Ratio Lock enabled, the new parent group will have its Aspect Ratio Lock automatically enabled as well.
- Fixed a bug where the Corner Radius and Jump to Slide input boxes would appear in the middle of the primary display instead of being centered on top of the active PowerPoint window.
- PowerPoint Add-In:
- When multiple slides are selected, exporting slides as a PPT now saves the entire selection as a single PPTX file (rather than as individual slides). To automatically open the new deck after it's saved, hold
Shift when clicking the button.
- Improved reliability and behavior of Select By Same Line function.
- FoxIt PDF Reader: Added alternate
Ctrl+Shift+N hotkey for Go to Page to match Acrobat behavior.
2024.01 (2024-01-09)
- PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In:
- Adds a Randomizer button to the PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In, which provides a method to randomly scale, move, reflect, and rotate selected Shapes. More information is available in the FLG Hotkeys manual.
- Adds a Select Same Type button to the PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In that selects Shapes based on their type (AutoShape, Graphic, Image, etc.).
- Adds a Shadow Knockout button to the PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In that changes the back-fill behavior of drop shadows on transparent Shapes.
- The Export Slide and Export Deck button groups can now output to a different location than the Desktop. Hold
Ctrl while clicking the button to be prompted for an output directory (default is the PPT’s location).
- Fixes some bugs with the Select Same Fill/Line buttons, especially in relation to Groups.
- Additional hotstring and hotkey added for a "right single quote" (’) character:
'' (press single-quote key twice) and Ctrl+'+' (to match functionality present in Microsoft Word).
- Fixed a bug where Acrobat XI would not be detected on application launch, causing the Snapshot Resolution to not be automatically set.
2023.04 (2023-11-20)
- PowerPoint:
- Repeated use of the Wrap Frame Around Shape (
Ctrl+Alt+F) hotkey will now toggle between "loose" and "tight" framing.
- Changed Jump to Slide hotkey to now be
Ctrl+Shift+N to align it with the similar function in Adobe Acrobat. PowerPoint's native "Open New Window for Document" hotkey is now shifted to Ctrl+Shift+J.
- Fixed an issue with the Set Transparency hotkeys that would result in unexpected behavior if a Shape's Fill was set to "No Fill".
- PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In:
- The Select Same Fill buttons now properly detect gradient fills.
- The Select Same Fill/Line buttons now work if the selection context is inside of a Group.
- The Select Same Fill/Line buttons now remember the last-used selection criteria, which means that the same selection can be repeated across multiple slides without needing a copy of the source object on each slide.
- The Select Same Fill/Line buttons now consider more style criteria when determining a match, including: Fill Color, Fill Transparency, Fill Type, Line Color, Line Weight, and Line Dash Style. To ignore these new matching criteria, hold the
Shift key when clicking one of the Selection buttons. This will determine matching based on Fill and/or Line Color values alone.
2023.03 (2023-10-31)
- Transcript Processor: Improved detection of time codes and line numbers in realtime transcripts, and now ignores bullets at the beginning of lines.
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey: Jump to Slide (
Ctrl+Shift+J): Prompts for a slide number and jumps directly to it.
- New hotkey: Replay Hotkey (
Shift+Esc): Plays back the most recently used FLG Hotkeys keyboard shortcut. Useful for binding to a mouse button to replay the previously-used hotkey. Currently only detects FLG Hotkeys functions (i.e., does not replay Ctrl+B when bolding text).
- New hotkey: Open Glow Options Panel (
Ctrl+Win+G): Opens the Glow options panel for the selected shape. Note that this may not work well on Windows 11 systems yet due to how the system intercepts Win+G hotkeys.
- New hotkey: Paste as JPEG (
Win+J): Pastes the clipboard to the current slide as a JPEG image.
- PowerPoint Ribbon Add-In:
- Added a new Export Deck button group which will export the entire slide deck as a flattened, exchange-ready PDF to the user's Desktop. Optional sub-buttons export the deck as an MP4 video at 720p60, 1080p60, and 4K60.
- Added a new Fix Proofing Language button which detects and fixes incorrect Proofing Language settings on all slides in a document. This should help alleviate the situations where text boxes (or portions thereof) get set to "French (France)" or other languages, resulting in erroneous spell check warnings.
- Addressed a race condition bug in the Exhibit Stamping and Slide Tag tools which could cause the process to fail with an error dialog.
- Fixed a bug in the Export Slide function that would cause the exported slide to have an incomplete file name if the slide deck had a demonstrative exhibit designation in its file name.
- Added a new Setting to the System category: Disable Undo in File Explorer, which can prevent accidental file movement or deletion by disabling File Explorer's undo history.
- Updated AutoHotkey and nconvert engines.
2023.02 (2023-05-16)
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey for Distribute Shapes and Preserve Edge-to-Edge Spacing (
Win+Ctrl+Shift+D). Useful when distributing shapes that have different heights/widths.
- New hotkey for Bring PPT Slide Show to Front (
Ctrl+F12). Invoking this hotkey multiple times will cycle through all available PowerPoint Slide Show windows.
- Added
Ctrl+z hotkey to Go to last slide viewed in Slide Show (The original Ctrl+Backspace will also continue to work). Adding Shift to either hotkey continues to reset the target slide's animation sequence as before.
- Added blocking for Windows’s default “Create New Virtual Desktop” hotkey (
Win+Ctrl+D) so that it doesn't accidentally interfere with the distribution tools. This hotkey continues to work as expected outside of PowerPoint.
- The PPT Add-In's Export Slide function now intelligently uses exhibit number formatting if an exhibit number is detected in the file name, or if a slug (from Exhibit Stamping tool) is detected on the slide, the content of the slug is used as the exported file name instead. For instance, exporting a PNG of slide 4 from a PPT named “DDX-0003 (Smith Direct) v12.pptx” will result in “DDX-0003.4.png” being saved to the Desktop.
2023.01 (2023-02-08)
- PowerPoint:
- !! Changed the Gradient hotkeys to now be
Win+R/Win+Shift+R to avoid collision with the Xbox Game Bar utility, which cannot be disabled in Windows 11. The previous Win+G/Win+Shift+G hotkeys are now deprecated and may be removed in a future update.
- When a Shape with a Gradient Fill is selected, subsequent invocations of
Win+R will Reverse Gradient.
- New hotkey: Rotate Gradient:
Win+Ctrl+R – Rotates a gradient fill by 90°.
- New hotkeys: Activate Eyedropper:
Win+E/Win+Shift+E. Activates the Eyedropper tool for the current selection's Fill color. Holding the Shift key targets the border color. If text (or a textbox without a background fill) is selected, the text color will be changed instead of the shape fill.
- New hotkeys: Open Color Picker:
Win+C/Win+Shift+C. Opens the Color Picker dialog for the current selection's Fill color. Holding the Shift key targets the border color. If text (or a textbox without a background fill) is selected, the text color will be changed instead of the shape fill.
- Note: This hotkey overrides the previously-existing
Win+C hotkey, Copy Line Number Notation to Notepad, while PowerPoint is the focused application. The old hotkey still functions as expected outside of PowerPoint.
- New hotkey: Open Textbox Options Palette:
Win+Ctrl+O
- New hotkey: Open Shape Fill Palette:
Win+O
- New hotkey: Open Shadow Options Palette:
Win+Ctrl+S
- New hotkey: Open 3D Options Palettes:
Win+Ctrl+3
- Updated the Paste as Unformatted Text function to handle UTF-8 text and to restore the clipboard after plaintext is pasted.
- Improved behavior of Reset Picture & Size hotkey (
Ctrl+H) and should no longer accidentally activate the on-screen ruler interface.
- !! The hotkey for Auto-Crop Image on Clipboard has changed to
Win+Ctrl+C.
-
Transcript Processing:
- Improved detection of timecodes.
- OnCue "(Page X:X to X:X)" notation is now removed from transcript pulls.
- Potential bug fix for inconsistent clipboard state after Transcript Processing is used.
2022.05 (2022-11-02)
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey to Wrap Frame Around Shape:
Ctrl+Alt+F. The first shape selected will be the shape to be framed, and subsequent shapes will be used as the frames.
- New hotkey to Insert Shape Into Frame:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F. First, select the shape/image that will be the frame, then select the shape that will be inserted into the frame. The frame will not change width, but will scale vertically to properly fit the enclosed shape. To prevent the frame from changing height, use Win+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F.
- Changed the hotkey for Fit to Slide to be
Win+Ctrl+F.
- New hotkey to Toggle Word Wrapping:
Ctrl+Alt+W. Any shapes that contain text will have their text wrapping mode toggled.
- Copy Image Crop and Paste Image Crop now work on video files as well as images. Note: There is a known bug in PowerPoint where the undo state isn't properly handled if you paste crop information on a video, then undo and re-do.
- If multiple images/videos are selected, Copy Image Crop uses the first selected object as a Key Object and applies its crop information to the rest of the selection.
- New hotstrings:
^2: ², ^3: ³, sqrt: √, cubert: ∛.
- Office Key shortcuts have been disabled so that they don't interfere with FLG Hotkeys.
2022.04 (2022-10-04)
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey for entering a colon character (:) when typing pin cites with the numpad:
Shift+NumpadAdd.
- Fixed a bug introduced in 2022.03 that prevented panning around when zoomed into a Slide Show view. A standard mouse button click is therefore no longer included in the set of "advance out of blank screen" commands.
- Fixed an issue in the Add-In "Clear Notes" tool that could result in an empty bullet being left behind rather than completely resetting the Notes field.
2022.03 (2022-07-27)
- PowerPoint:
- When in Slide Show mode and displaying a Black or White blank screen, advancing out of the blank now activates the next/previous slide instead of just making the blanked slide re-appear.
- Added a button to the FLG Hotkeys Ribbon to Tag Slide Numbers. This function applies a slide number tag off the bottom right corner of all slides. This is useful for tracking previous version slide numbers while making edits. The Remove Stamps feature can remove these tags (and if the
Alt key is held down, only the Slide Number Tags will be removed).
- Fixed a bug in the Clear Notes function where an Undo entry was added for every affected slide. The function is now handled as a single Undo operation.
- System:
- "Clean Up Explorer UI" setting now removes Outlook from QuickLaunch
-
Misc:
- Updated nConvert utility to v7.112.
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.34.03.
2022.02 (2022-05-13)
- PowerPoint:
- The mouse scrollwheel can now be used to rotate selected Shapes:
Shift+Scroll: Rotate ±15°
Shift+Alt+Scroll: Rotate ±1°
Shift+Alt+Ctrl+Scroll: Rotate ±0.1°
- The Rounded Rectangle Radius function now supports variations on the Rounded Rectangle shape. Additional control points can be targeted with the
Alt+Ctrl+Shift+U hotkey variant.
2022.01 (2022-03-23)
- PowerPoint:
- Swapped
Win+G and Win+Shift+G behavior so that a “flat” gradient is now the default and a transparent gradient is the alternate style.
- New hotkey (
Ctrl+Shift+U) to manually set Rounded Rectangle Radius in points.
- Prevent accidental closure of Slide Show view by a combination of
Shift/Alt+Click/Scroll.
- Changed Acrobat screenshot resolution to 600 ppi (from 300).
- Added new text snippets for dagger (†), double dagger (‡), asterism (⁂), and dinkus (∗ ∗ ∗) [no, really, that’s its name].
- Hotkeys now offers a link to a web-hosted Changelog when a new version is launched.
- New Hotkeys Setting to clean up Windows interface by removing unused items from the Sidebar and This PC.
- Compiler now compresses and cryptographically signs EXEs. This should help improve or eliminate false-positive Windows Defender warnings about FLG Hotkeys.
- Updated nConvert utility to 7.99 and included license file with installation.
- Changed installation location to
%APPDATA%\Fulcrum Legal Graphics\FLG Hotkeys.
2021.06 (2021-11-03)
- Acrobat DC settings are now properly set on a fresh installation of Adobe Creative Cloud.
2021.05 (2021-10-05)
- Title Case processing now properly handles quoted subphrases that immediately follow punctuation.
- Transcript processing now detects “THE WITNESS:” at the beginning of a line and replaces it with “A.”.
- Transcript processing now properly parses OnCue reports that contain combined page:line numbers.
- Updated nConvert library to 7.80.
- Removed “Legacy Photoshop Bitmapper”.
- Dev mode: disabled menu settings relating to update checking.
2021.04 (2021-05-29)
- Added system configuration to get rid of “These files might be harmful to your computer” warnings when accessing the FLG file server over the VPN (must be mapped via domain name to make it work).
2021.03 (2021-05-11)
- New PPT hotkey variants for Match Size: Hold
Win to transpose height/width calculations for rotated shapes.
- Compiler updates to put tags in Details view of EXE.
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.33.09.
- Updated copyright for 2021.
2021.02 (2021-02-17)
- Fixed a regression introduced in previous update to transcript processor.
2021.01 (2021-01-27)
- Transcript Processing: Fixed bug when multiple newlines were in a selection.
- New system hotkey: Bring All Windows of Current Application to Front (
Alt-`).
- Updated order of buttons in PPT Add-In.
2020.04 (2020-10-12)
- New PPT Add-In function: Find linked objects in presentation.
- PPT Add-In bug fixes.
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.33.02.
2020.03 (2020-06-23)
- Bug fixes for Acrobat Snapshot settings.
2020.02 (2020-06-02)
- PPT Add-In: New button to Reset Notes.
- PowerPoint:
- New hotkey: Toggle Aspect Ratio Lock (
Ctrl-Shift-L).
- “Transparent White” object is now 20% opacity (from 30%).
- Updated NConvert library to 7.39.
- When bitmapping, final result is now left on the clipboard instead of being cleared.
- Fixed a configuration problem with new installations of Acrobat.
- New glyphs for “therefore”, “direct sum”, “vector product”, and various database join types.
- Updated FLG Hotkeys self-update server address (hotkeys.fulcrumlegal.com).
2020.01 (2020-01-11)
- PowerPoint: New Add-In Ribbon buttons for “Previous Notes” and “Next Notes”
- PowerPoint: Ribbon Export button default switched back to 720p, and tooltip typo fix.
- New hotstrings for “minus” and “empty set” glyphs.
2019.12 (2019-12-06)
- PowerPoint: Updated PowerPoint Add-In with new “FLG Hotkeys” Ribbon tab.
- PowerPoint: New hotkeys: Copy Image Crop (
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C) and Paste Image Crop (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-V).
- New hotstrings for en-dash, em-dash, copyright, and registered trademark glyphs.
2019.11 (2019-11-03)
- PowerPoint: New Styles & Colors hotkeys.
- New System-Wide Hotkey: Password Generator (
Shift-Numpad/ and Ctrl-Shift-Numpad/). Generates a random 12-character passphrase. Useful for File Share logins and PDF encryption.
- New hotstrings for checkmarks, x-marks, and middot.
- PowerPoint: Bug fixes for Paragraph Spacing function and “match sizes” function.
- Updated documentation format.
- Fix bugs with transcript processor.
- Force 32-bit version of NConvert library for now. 64-bit version may have some issues with the clipboard.
2019.10 (2019-09-04)
- Bug fix for Title Case function when a small word followed a quoted subphrase.
2019.09 (2019-09-03)
- Bug fixes for Title Case function, Time Tracker window, and Transcript Processing function.
- Changed
Win-Ctrl-0 hotkey to be Exit Time Tracker (was Hide Time Tracker).
- PowerPoint: Swapped gradient direction for Convert Solid Fill to Gradient.
- New Text Snippets: Zero-Width Space (
|0sp) and Interrobang.
2019.08 (2019-08-08)
- New system-wide hotkey: Title Case Selected Text (
Win-T). This hotkey processes the selected text, converting it to proper Title Case format (based on New York Times rules).
- Hotkeys for the Time Tracker have been changed to
Win-0, Ctrl-Win-0, and Shift-Win-0 to accommodate for the new hotkey above.
- New hotstrings for vulgar fractions (½, ¼, ¾, etc.)
2019.07 (2019-07-08)
- PowerPoint: New Convert Solid Fill to Gradient hotkey (
Win-G).
- PowerPoint: Fixed a bug where selected objects would be de-selected when un-hiding all objects.
- PowerPoint: Fixed regression in Change Paragraph Spacing and Change Paragraph Leading hotkey behavior.
- PowerPoint: Added “Processing…” tooltip display for Paste in Front and Paste Behind functions.
- Enhancements and a bug fix for the Time Tracker where negative numbers would be displayed after the timer was paused for a long period and then reset.
2019.06 (2019-06-29)
- New Time Tracker feature (
Win-T, Ctrl-Win-T, Shift-Win-T).
- PowerPoint: New hotkeys for Increase Paragraph Spacing and Decrease Paragraph Spacing (
Ctrl-Alt-Win-Up & Ctrl-Alt-Win-Down)
- New versioning system (Year.Release format).
- Compiler will automatically set the build date in Version.ahk.
- Cleaned-up global variable declarations.
1.7.7 (2019-05-22)
- Bitmapping function is now a system-wide hotkey (no longer tied to Acrobat).
- New global hotkey: Auto-Crop Image on Clipboard (
Win-Shift-C): Automatically crops an image on the clipboard to remove whitespace around content and saves it back to the clipboard.
- Support for breve characters in text snippets.
1.7.6.1 (2019-03-25)
- PowerPoint: Fixed problem with View Last Slide introduced in previous release.
1.7.6 (2019-03-22)
- PowerPoint: Added Pause Animation (
Ctl-Space) and Reset Slide Animation (Ctl-Enter) hotkeys in Slide Show mode.
- PowerPoint: View Last Slide (
Ctl-Backspace) now uses the COM Object interface instead of the contextual menu. New alternate Ctl-Shift-Backspace also resets animation on the last slide when switching to it.
- PowerPoint: New setting for “preserve selection” when processing bitmaps (defaults to “on,” which was the previous behavior).
- Application icons are now embedded in the executable.
- nConvert library is now installed alongside FLG Hotkeys executable (no longer stored in temp directory).
- Updated nConvert library to 7.25 (January 15, 2019).
- New installer to deploy application to the correct (new) location.
1.7.4 (2018-12-12)
- Fixed an error where the new nconvert image library would be invoked incorrectly even if Photoshop was set as the image processing engine.
1.7.3 (2018-10-05)
- Added new ‘nconvert’ image manipulation library as default bitmapping function.
- New graphics library allows us to properly handle snapshots from extremely large PDFs.
- The legacy Photoshop method can still be used by selecting the “Use Legacy Photoshop Bitmapper” option in the Settings.
- Reorganized some internal methods.
- Changed circumflex (^) text snippets to use the ‘^’ character instead of the number ‘6’.
- Acrobat snapshot resolution is now set to 300 ppi by default.
1.7.2 (2018-08-18)
- PowerPoint: Changed “distribute” function to allow distribution with two objects instead of three. This is useful when distributing “to frame.”
- Added “macron” diacritics to the system-wide text snippets.
1.7.1 (2018-08-10)
- PowerPoint: Added Exhibit Stamps Add-In to the Insert tab in the Ribbon.
- PowerPoint: New hotkey for Send Selected Slides to End (
Ctl-E when Slides are selected).
- PowerPoint: New hotkey for Paste as Unformatted Text (
Win-V).
- PowerPoint: Changed behavior of Attach to Selected Object Face hotkey.
Win-F now defaults to “sequential” mode, and new Win-Shift-F implements older “cuddle” mode.
- PowerPoint: New hotkey for Extrapolate Distribution (
Win-Shift-D).
- PowerPoint: Added 96ppi as slide export resolution option.
- New system-wide hotkey for Copy Transcript Designations to Notepad (
Win-C when Notepad is open).
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.29.01.
1.6.4.5 (2018-04-06)
- PowerPoint: New hotkey for Reset Picture (
Ctl-H) when an image is selected.
- Further improvement for accidental triggering of Start Menu when initiating hotkeys that use the
Win key.
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.28.01.
1.6.3.1 (2018-01-11)
- Updated AHK framework to v1.1.27.04
- Rolled-back change from v1.6.2, as it was causing problems. For very large PDFs that cause crashes, the best fix is to change the Snapshot resolution in Acrobat to a smaller value.
1.6.2 (2017-11-07)
- Fixed PowerPoint crash that could be caused by oversized Acrobat bitmap images.
1.5.0.4 (2017-08-14)
- Stub Beta release (no changes from 1.5.0.3, just tagging as Beta).
1.5.0.3 (2017-08-14)
- Fixed issue where auto-updater would not run.
1.5.0.2 (2017-08-14)
- Application settings are now exclusively stored in the Windows Registry.
- Acrobat/PowerPoint: Fixed bug where Bitmap function would not work if the interface focus was on the Notes or Outline pane in PowerPoint.
- PowerPoint: Fixed Paste in Front and Paste Behind to now work correctly when no objects are selected before pasting.
- New global hotkey to Toggle Window Floating (
Ctrl-Win-Space). When active, current window will always float on top of other windows, even when unfocused.
- Beta releases are now an opt-in feature in the Settings menu.
1.4.15 (2017-07-25)
- Added GUI option to change PPT export resolution (see new Settings menu in System Tray icon).
1.4.14 (2017-07-05)
- PowerPoint: Updated behavior of Fit to Slide to allow objects to scale up as well as down.
1.4.13 (2017-06-20)
- PowerPoint: Updated behavior of Paste in Front and Paste Behind to preserve animations on pasted objects.
1.4.12 (2017-06-20)
- PowerPoint: New hotkey for Paste in Front (
Ctrl-Shift-F) and Paste Behind (Ctrl-Shift-B)
- PowerPoint: Fixed issue with Hide Objects when working with grouped objects.
1.4.11 (2017-05-29)
- New hotkey for non-breaking space (
Ctrl-Shift-Space) and non-breaking hyphen (Ctrl-Shift-hyphen)
- Transcript processing: Improve detection of time codes at end of lines.
1.4.10 (2017-05-16)
- PowerPoint:
Ctl-Shift-Alt-M: New Match Faces hotkey: matches heights and widths while forcing aspect ratio to be unlocked.
1.4.9 (2017-04-22)
- PowerPoint: Resolved an issue with the Match Faces command where shapes were attaching to the wrong edge of the source object.
1.4.8 (2017-04-10)
- PowerPoint:
- Layering hotkeys now work on shapes when text is selected.
- Reimplemented hotkeys for PPT-native Align Centers (
Ctl-Shift-Left) and Align Middles (Ctl-Shift-Up)
- Align Centers to Key Object and Align Middles to Key Object reassigned to
Alt-Shift-Left and Alt-Shift Up.
- Turn Off Displays hotkey works on PC Lock Screen, so removed redundant
Win-Shift-L hotkey.
1.4.7 (2017-04-07)
- New hotkeys to Turn Off Displays (
Win-\), and Lock Screen and Turn Off Displays (Win-Shift-L)
- New text snippet for Numero symbol (№)
- PowerPoint: Improved “match faces” command.
1.4.6 (2017-03-18)
- PowerPoint: Actually fixed the bug from 1.4.4.
1.4.5 (2017-03-16)
- PowerPoint: Fixed a bug introduced in the previous version that would prevent Align Center and Align Middle from working properly when only one item was selected.
1.4.4 (2017-03-10)
- PowerPoint: Align Center and Align Middle now align to the first-selected object.
1.4.3 (2017-03-10)
- Acrobat:
Win-B: Process as bitmap in Photoshop then paste as transparent PNG in PowerPoint.
- Acrobat:
Win-Alt-B: Process as bitmap in Photoshop then paste as bitmap in PowerPoint (same as previous behavior for Win-B).
- PowerPoint: New hotkey,
Win-P: Set selected images as transparent PNGs.
1.4.2 (2017-03-07)
- PowerPoint: New hotkey:
Win-F: Match faces of selected objects. First object selected is the “key” object to which the rest of the selection will be moved.
- PowerPoint: Override potential system “rotate screen” commands (
Ctl-Alt-Left, Ctl-Alt-Right) to force ±1° object rotation.
- PowerPoint: Fixed an issue with rotation hotkeys that would cause all objects to be set to the same rotation even if they had different starting values.
1.4.1 (2017-02-28)
- “Update History” section added to User Manual
1.4.0 (2017-02-27)
- Automatic update checking! Once a week on system startup, program will check for an update. If no updates are available, updater will not display an alert window.
- Fixed a bug in version number comparison code.
- Further updates to updater and installer.
1.3.8 (2017-02-24)
- PowerPoint: New Hotkeys for Flip Horizontal (
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Down), Flip Vertical (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Up) and Rotate ±45° (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Left, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Right).
- PowerPoint: Holding
Shift while executing Match Width or Match Height unlocks aspect ratio.
- New Text Snippets for
•, ¡, and ¿.
- Program is now added to the Programs list in the Start Menu.
- New icon for Installer window.
- Improvements to updater and installer.
1.3.7 (2017-02-19)
- Added progress bar for self-updater.
- Acrobat: Improved interaction with Photoshop for bitmapping function (again).
- Acrobat: New Hotkey:
Win-Shift-B makes a new Photoshop document from the current snapshot.
- Updated bundled Photoshop actions to “Feb 2017” version.
1.3.6 (2017-02-19)
- Acrobat: Improved interaction with Photoshop for bitmapping function.
- PowerPoint: Paste as Bitmap (used by Acrobat function) now maintains existing selection on slide (useful for quick sizing and alignment).
1.3.5 (2017-02-17)
- PowerPoint: New Hotkey:
Ctrl-Alt-F fits selection to slide and centers if too large.
1.3.4 (2017-02-15)
- Transcripts: Fix an issue with transcript processing caused by some PDFs that had extraneous mid-dot characters inline with transcript text.
1.3.3 (2017-02-14)
- Acrobat: Fix issue with Bitmapper where images may not resize to fit on slide correctly.
1.3.2 (2017-02-13)
- Text Snippet updates: added
±, æ, and ø, cleaned up Ångström to be a capital letter, fixed arrows, and shortened keys for smart quotes and §.
- PowerPoint: Add Match Width (
Ctrl-Alt-,) and Match Height (Ctrl-Alt-.).
- Renamed help file to “User Manual.”
1.3.1 (2017-02-13)
- PowerPoint: New shortcut,
Ctrl-Alt-M, matches the size of selected objects. First object selected is the “key,” and all other selected objects are scaled to match. Size matching is based on the differences of hypotenuse, so this scaling works best for shapes with similar dimension ratios.
- Text Snippet for “micron” no longer case-sensitive.
1.3.0 (2017-02-12)
- Self-installation when run from a location other than the user’s Startup folder.
- Updated documentation to include changes from 1.2.4. (oops!)
- PowerPoint: “Paste Special” (
Ctrl-Shift-V) adjusted to set focus on format selection list by default (so that list can be navigated with arrow keys).
- Acrobat: Bitmapping function now scales image in PowerPoint if it’s larger than 95% of slide size.
1.2.4 (2017-02-12)
- New Text Snippets for micron (μm) and registered trademark (®).
1.2.3 (2017-02-12)
- Improved System Tray icon behavior.
- Cleans up temp files when exiting app.
1.2.2 (2017-02-11)
- PowerPoint: Hotkeys now work properly with Undo/Redo history.
- Updated System Tray menu.
- Help file now included with the app and available from the Tray menu.
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