Today I found a flaw with ActiveWords. Normally it runs in the background, or maybe it’s foreground, intercepting every keystroke ready to leap into action to perform a myriad of actions when one of the magic key combinations, or “ActiveWords”, is entered.
I was installing some software which required shutting down all other applications. I’d just completed the installation when an extremely important activity took me away from the PC… OK I’ll admit it was coffee time!
Upon returning I tried to open Outlook. I typed “in” but Outlook didn’t start up and the in-box didn’t display. Puzzled I tried some other applications but “docl” start Word and RSS Bandit did not respond to “rssl”. I even tried browsing to the ActiveWords site in search of an answer but “awn” didn’t launch Internet Explorer then navigate to the ActiveWords site.
I started I.E. (yes, I still use it) manually, you actually grab the mouse then move the cursor over the little blue 
thing and click the left button, which was a novel experience as I haven’t done that for ages. I then clicked into the address line and entered “awu” but it wasn’t substituted with http://www.activewords.com/ (which just happened when I typed this in BlogJet) and was about to type the whole “www.activewords.com” address, what a hassle, when I realised the problem. The magic ActiveWords 
was not showing in the system tray.
When the ActiveWords application is not running…
ActiveWords aren’t…. active!
