Edit Tools Menu

Use the Edit Tools Menu command (from the Tools menu) to customize which items appear near the bottom of TimeTo's Tools menu. You can control all of the items that appear in the second last group of the Tools menu (immediately above the Set Address Book command). These commands can launch a program (such as your default e-mail program), a file (such as your mission statement), a Web page, or trigger events in other programs (for some examples of how to trigger Microsoft Outlook events, please read Using TimeTo With Microsoft Outlook.

TimeTo ships with these default settings on the Tools menu:

&Notebook<TAB>notepad.exe
&Calculator<TAB>calc.exe
&TimeTo site<TAB>"c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe" www.TimeTo.org

Each row represents one command on the Tools menu, and you can have as many or as few as you'd like.

The first part is the name of the command that will appear on the menu: you can call it anything you'd like, and it can include spaces. (If you put an ampersand (&) before a letter, then that letter will be highlighted with an underscore on the menu and you will only need to press that one letter to choose the command from that menu. The ampersand is typically put before the first letter of the command, however you can put it anywhere you'd like.)

The first part must be immediately followed by one tab character (i.e. press the Tab key once) and no spaces. Do not type "<TAB>": this phrase simply represents the Tab key in our examples.

The next part is the filename of the file or program to be launched. If the filename is not in your TimeTo folder or the default Windows path, then you must include the entire path. If the phrase contains any spaces, you must contain the entire phrase in double quotations marks (").

You can optionally include additional file names (for instance if the first phrase was the name of the program to launch the file and the second and third file names could be launched). If so, separate the phrases with exactly one space.

So, in the example above, the first row results in a command called Notebook with the letter N highlighted, and choosing that command will launch the Windows Notepad program which is actually the program file notepad.exe.

The entire row cannot exceed 78 characters.

Here is a more complex example:

No&tepad<TAB>"\program files\textpad\textpad.exe" c:\temp\a.txt c:\temp\b.txt

In this example, the command Notepad is added to the Tools menu (with the letter t highlighted). This command launches an alternate text editor called TextPad (that this user prefer to Window's default text editor called Notepad) and opens two files in the editor called a.txt and b.txt that are located in the c:\temp folder.

Technical Note: These tool menu settings are stored in a plain text file called worktool.lst in your TimeTo folder. So, if you prefer, you can edit that list directly in the text editor of your choice rather than using the Edit Tools Menu command.