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From Issue 47
Title: MacroBox
Requires: 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, Windows 3.1 or above.
Have you ever had to type the same thing over and over? Wish there was a way to automate all those mundane keystrokes? Name, address, phone number, etc...

With MacroBox, you can store all those commonly used snippets into what's called a macro. These macros can be anything: your name, address, phone number, passwords to your favorite Internet sites, etc. By just clicking on a macro in the MacroBox and then on the desired text area in another program, you can instantly add words, phrases, or whole sentences into the other program without typing a single character. The text area on the other program can be a small text box for inputting individual data items, or the main text field of a word processor like Wordpad.

You can also paste text into MacroBox from the Windows clipboard to set as a new macro. This is useful if you have already typed some long phrase in your word processor, or perhaps if you have captured some text (like an Internet URL address) from some message you received. Plus, MacroBox has a configurable "Stay On Top" feature to allow it to "float" on top of any other program that you are running. This is a nice feature, since many programs like word processors fill the entire screen.