Skip to content

AhkWord 66

Pre-release
Pre-release

Choose a tag to compare

View all tags
@burque505 burque505 released this 30 Oct 14:29
iteration-66
720301c

Superseded by AhkWord 68.

AhkWord is a word processor for Windows that AutoHotkey scripts can drive while you type. This is a work in progress.

Download and run

Nothing to install. Choose one of the two downloads below:

  • AhkWord-66.zip (16 MB): everything AhkWord needs except .NET. If your computer hasn't got the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime, AhkWord offers on its first start to download it from Microsoft for itself only (about 70 MB, checked against Microsoft's checksums, into AhkWord's own folder: nothing is installed in Windows, and no administrator is needed), or to open Microsoft's page to install it for all of Windows.
  • AhkWord-66-complete.zip (87 MB): the same with .NET 10 inside, for a computer that may not have it or isn't online. It asks nothing.

Then:

  1. Unzip it anywhere you can write to: your Documents, a USB stick (not Program Files).
  2. Double-click AhkWord.exe. Windows may say Windows protected your PC the first time, because AhkWord isn't signed: click More info, then Run anyway.

If Windows says "Smart App Control blocked an app that may be unsafe", there is no Run anyway: Smart App Control, on by default on some new Windows 11 PCs, blocks programs that aren't signed, and AhkWord.exe is AutoHotkey, which isn't. See Troubleshooting before you turn the setting off (on many versions of Windows 11 it can't be turned on again without resetting Windows). A signed AhkWord is next on the roadmap.

Just trying it out? Put an empty file named portable beside AhkWord.exe first. Everything AhkWord keeps (settings, recent files, templates, recovery copies) then stays in its own folder, and deleting the folder leaves no trace. Without it, settings are kept for your Windows user, shared by every copy of AhkWord.

AhkWord.exe is AutoHotkey v2.0.30, unchanged, under AhkWord's name, so you don't need AutoHotkey installed; it is under the GNU GPL v2, and its license and a link to its source come in the zip. The other parts' licenses are in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md and licenses.

The documentation is at https://burque505.github.io/AhkWord/, and what is done and what comes next is in the roadmap.

New in AhkWord 66

  • Fix for a serious display bug: in Print Layout, a Word file whose first paragraphs are hidden (Word can keep the anchors of floating shapes there) had its first lines painted over by the top margin. The text was in the file but couldn't be seen. Those lines now show. If you use AhkWord 65 or earlier, please update.

For what came in iterations 60 to 65, see AhkWord 65.

Thanks to TheArkive's M-ArkDown, whose Markdown extensions AhkWord follows for list styles and picture sizes.

Assets 4
Loading