The industry standard for word processing is by far Microsoft Word, which anyone that's ever worked in an office environment will know.One of the great and powerful features in Word is the ability to create macros, which are essentially a recording of a combination of keystrokes that can be launched via a keyboard shortcut.Wouldn't it be nice to have that same capability for all the web-based productivity tools we use every day?Well, there is a Chrome browser extension called Auto Text Expander that will allow you to just that.The only limit to how many ways you can use this free tool is your own imagination, as you can take any large chunk of text and assign it to a made-up word.For instance, you could create a shortcut called bizadd which would quickly insert your full business address or create any number of signatures for your various email accounts.What makes this approach so useful is that it isn't just for Google's online word processor called Docs; it works in any text field th
