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blackxacto

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Jun 15, 2009
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I report amounts of money, very fast and under pressure on Twitter messaging. I cannot always remember to start w the $. If I think to start w $ I sometimes forget the total amount and must look back: "Now what was the total?"

Is there a way to create a keystroke that would insert the $ at the front of whatever amount I type, so I could type: 576.80 then hit the key that would insert the $ in front: $576.80

Any help will be appreciated.
 

revmacian

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Oct 20, 2018
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I’m not sure a keystroke would work because the keystroke would have to first tell the system to jump to the beginning of the total and then add a $. That is something that a programmer’s code editor could do, but it wouldn’t be easy to do with a single keystroke.

If you’re using an external keyboard you could always type out the total, then hit OPT+left arrow, to jump to the beginning of the total, and then hit SHIFT+4.
 

Tovenaar

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Oct 21, 2008
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Why not put the $ at the end? It's not usual but I think people would still understand what you meant.
 

benshive

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If you’re using an external keyboard you could always type out the total, then hit OPT+left arrow, to jump to the beginning of the total, and then hit SHIFT+4.
This is probably the best advice. Just opt+left to the beginning of the total and then use command+right to jump back to the end of the text. Once the combinations become second nature it'll be a really quick way of doing it.
 
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Krevnik

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No. These shortcuts have existed on iOS/Mac for hardware keyboards for a long time:

Opt + Left/Right Arrow: Left or Right one "word".
Cmd + Left/Right Arrow: Same as "Home" or "End" on Windows, or the start or end of the line.
 
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