Windows Gurus,
On the Mac OS I have many keyboard shortcuts set up to type strange characters, such as "\pi" types a PI symbol (π), or even emojis. There is a system pref. pane, next to the "autocorrect" panel, where you type in the "\pi" and then I copy/paste the appropriate symbol from the Character viewer.This hint shows what I'm talking about: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/289145/43113
How can I enable similar functionality in Windows?
I seem to remember colleagues memorizing numerical Alt-Codes (eg. Alt+1234 to type some symbol). Is there a simple replace-as-you-type or "autocorrect" as you type feature that can be enabled system-wide, to insert greek characters and arrows etc.? (I know MS Office apps have their own, isolated, autocorrect features, but I want system wide shortcuts - eg. for notes, email, word etc.).
I found this answer: Text shortcuts for faster communicationThe solution, AutoHotKey requires Basic programming and I'm hoping for less overhead. If there is no simpler solution, then I'll go with AutoHotKey (some day when I decide it's worth the time to figure it out).
Looking for solution on Windows 10 Pro.Thanks!