Here's a way to streamline the play. It may not speed it up much, but will feel faster.
There is nothing wrong with doing this, it is a standard Windows procedure.
If you have written down the codes you have obtained from the property web sites, type them into a word processor file like Notepad or WordPad. AOL also has a nice word processor by pressing Ctrl-D. Type then in a column, like this:
ABCDEF
GHIJKL
MNOPQR (note: these are not real codes)
Save the word processor file to disk, so you can use the list again and again.
Then, with the contest on the screen, and your list of codes in another window, do the following:
Select "I have more codes" so that the 10 little code-entry windows show.
Go to your word processor file and use the mouse to highlight the first code. Then click the highlighed code and drag it to one of the code-entry windows. This is the standard Windows "click and drag."
You could also use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy and paste.
Repeat until all 10 codes have been dragged or pasted into the code-entry boxes. The codes in the word processor list may disappear, so don't save the changed file. (Hold down the contol key if you want then NOT to disappear upon drag.)
Press the "enter" or "go" button, and your 10 entries will be ready to PLAY NOW!
The click and drag process should take less than a minute, and your 10 code plays will take the normal amount of time.
There may be other ways to streamline this further by using macros or by entering tabs, but I haven't figured that out yet.
- bcc
