QUILL Lite 1.2
Version 1.2.0, released October 3, 2026.
Welcome to QUILL Lite 1.2. This is the release about words. QUILL Lite now has a thesaurus that finds the word you are really on, a dictionary that works without AI, and an AI dictionary that reads your word in its own sentence and tells you whether it is the right one.
It is also the release about knowing what happened. QUILL Lite keeps a list of everything it has told you, F9 says the last important thing again, and if something goes wrong while you are busy elsewhere, it waits for you rather than slipping past.
Everything works from the keyboard and tells you how it went, the way the rest of QUILL Lite does.
Testing rebuild: 1.2.0 (build 4)
Build 4 runs on Python 3.14. Its installer also removes the older Python 3.13 runtime once no QuillVille app on your computer uses it.
Dictation is kinder to screen reader users with a headset. QUILL Lite no longer writes down your screen reader reading back what you said, saying the same phrase twice writes it twice, and the sound for a written phrase is a soft tone instead of something that sounded like the letter “c”.
Build 4 keeps everything from build 3:
Build 3 retains build 2’s local-recording transcription fix and Windows audio duration fallback. It prepares downloaded model availability in the background, and completed transcripts are saved privately for opening from Notifications. Your current document stays unchanged until you choose to open a result.
Routine settings saves also run in the background and still report failures through Activity. Python HTTPS requests use the Windows certificate store while checking certificates and hostnames. The installer is current-user only and does not offer an administrator-only installation.
The bundled changelog records the complete build changes. These testing packages are not a GitHub release or a Stable-channel promotion.
If you already use QUILL Lite
Your settings, recent files and recovered work come with you exactly as they are, and Help > Check for Updates (Ctrl+Alt+U) offers 1.2.0 like any other update.
One key has moved. Tools > Keyboard Manager is now Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Space. Its old key, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R, shows and hides Quill Radio from anywhere, so while Quill Radio was running the Keyboard Manager never opened. QUILL moved its Keyboard Manager to the same key, so the two still match.
Try this first
- Put the cursor on a word you are not happy with and press Shift+F7. Arrow through the meanings, press Tab to reach the words, and press Enter on one you like. It goes into your sentence in the right form.
- On another word, press the Applications key. You find two new submenus, Thesaurus for that word and Dictionary for that word.
- Press Alt+F10 for Look Up Word. It works without the internet, and tells you more if you let it go online.
- Press Ctrl+, for Preferences and type “spelling” in Find a setting. Press Down, then Enter, and you are on that setting.
- Press Shift+F9 for Activity, the list of everything QUILL Lite has told you since you opened it. Press F9 any time to hear the last important thing again.
Finding the right word
The thesaurus
Press Shift+F7, the same key as in Word and QUILL, or choose Tools > Thesaurus. It opens on the word you are on.
A thesaurus lists plain forms of words, run rather than running. QUILL Lite works your word back for you, so “running” finds “run”, “happier” finds “happy” and “stopped” finds “stop”, and it tells you so. Then it puts your choice back in the form your sentence needs. Choose sprint for running and you get sprinting. Choose glad for Happier and you get More glad, capital letter and all.
It is the same thesaurus QUILL uses, and it comes inside QUILL Lite. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is sent anywhere.
Want the short version without a window? Say Word Summary (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[) tells you what the thesaurus knows about a word: how many meanings it has, the first few replacements, and its opposites.
Look Up, the dictionary without AI
Press Alt+F10, or choose Tools > Look Up Word. Offline, you get synonyms, opposites and related words from the word list inside QUILL Lite.
Check Use online sources and you also get definitions with examples, more words, rhymes and a short Wikipedia summary. Only the word is sent, never your sentence or your document, and only after you check the box. QUILL Lite remembers your choice.
Press Enter on a word to put it in place of yours. Add to Dictionary teaches a word to your spell checker.
The AI dictionary
A thesaurus knows every meaning of bank. It cannot tell which one your sentence means. Tools > Dictionary can, because it sends the word and the sentence it is in (never the rest of your document) and answers in plain words written to be listened to.
There are twelve questions to ask, each with a key of its own:
- Define in Context (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+’) says what the word means here.
- Synonyms That Fit, Simpler Word, More Formal Word and More Vivid Word offer replacements that suit this sentence.
- Is This the Right Word? settles affect or effect, complement or compliment.
- Opposites, Use It in a Sentence, Where It Comes From, How to Say It and Rhymes do just what they say.
- Word Explorer (Ctrl+F10) does them all at once.
- Find the Word For (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+]) is the other way round: you describe the meaning, and it suggests the word you are reaching for.
When an answer offers words, Tab to Choices and press Enter, or choose Use This Word. It goes into your document as one step, and one Ctrl+Z takes it back.
The AI dictionary needs your ChatGPT subscription or your own AI key. It does not use QUILL’s free AI service, because a dictionary gets asked many times a day and would use up the free allowance quickly.
Checking your word lists
Tools > Spelling > Dictionary Status (Alt+Shift+;) tells you how many words your personal dictionary and this document’s own list hold, where each file is kept, and whether the thesaurus is there.
If you would rather not have any of this, turn off Dictionary and thesaurus in Tools > Customize Features (Ctrl+Alt+F10). It is on to begin with, and off in the WordPad and Notepad profiles.
AI help with a Google Gemini key
Use My Own AI Key (Alt+F2), which used to be called Use My Own OpenAI Key, now opens on a Provider list: OpenAI or Google Gemini. Choose one, paste that company’s key, and everything follows your choice: where your text goes, which models you can pick, and what they cost. QUILL Lite never guesses from the key or the model name.
You can keep both keys saved and switch with the Provider list. With a Gemini key, Ask About an Image (Ctrl+F5) works too, and so do the AI dictionary and Tidy Dictated Text.
If you use your ChatGPT plan in more than one Quill app, each app now keeps its own sign-in. Signing out of one leaves the others signed in, and Use My ChatGPT Subscription (Alt+F5) tells you when another app on this computer is already signed in, so signing in here is one Allow in your browser.
Knowing what happened
Activity and Repeat Last Result
Help > Activity (Shift+F9) lists everything QUILL Lite has told you since you opened it, newest first. Each row offers what you can do about it:
- Retry tries the same thing again.
- Open Folder shows you the file in File Explorer.
- Copy Details copies the row, ready to paste into a message to support.
If work finishes after you closed the window that started it, the result lands here instead of being lost. A large file you opened while you were busy elsewhere is here too, as Opened or Could not open.
Help > Repeat Last Result (F9) says the last important thing again. That is QUILL Lite’s own last message, not the last thing your screen reader read. Both keys do the same in QUILL, Quill Radio and QUILL Cast.
When your settings cannot be saved
Sometimes Windows will not let QUILL Lite save your settings, perhaps because the disk is full. Now you are told once, with the reason. Your choices keep working for the rest of the session, the warning stays in the status bar’s Message cell, and Activity offers Retry. When a later save works, you hear that too. Preferences no longer says “saved” when it was not.
Finding a setting
Preferences (Ctrl+,) has a Find a setting box at the top. Type a word, press Down to reach the matches, and press Enter on one to go straight to it. Ctrl+F takes you back to the box. Searching never changes a setting, and OK and Cancel work just as before. Quill Radio and QUILL Cast have the same box in their Preferences.
Making QUILL Lite your text editor
The installer is for your Windows account only. It does not offer an all-users install or need administrator approval. The separate option below that opens QUILL Lite whenever a program asks for Notepad changes a computer-wide setting, so Windows still asks for administrator approval for that action.
Every QUILL Lite install now tells Windows that QUILL Lite can open text, Markdown, rich text, HTML and CSV files. It takes nothing over. QUILL Lite simply shows up in Open with, and in Windows Settings under Default apps, where you choose which app opens what. The Custom install’s checkbox for opening .txt and .rtf files is gone, because there is nothing left to ask.
Open Preferences (Ctrl+,) and look under Windows and your files. A line there tells you what opens in place of Notepad right now.
The Make QUILL Lite My Text Editor… button takes you the rest of the way. It explains what Windows lets an app do and what you choose, then opens the Default apps page for QUILL Lite. Choose .txt, pick QUILL Lite, and choose Set default. It works from a portable copy too.
Some programs still open Notepad by name. If you would like QUILL Lite to open for those as well, check Open QUILL Lite instead of Notepad and press OK. It is off to begin with. It changes Notepad for everyone on the computer, so Windows asks for administrator approval, and clearing the box puts Notepad back. On Windows 11, QUILL Lite also shows you where to turn off the newer Notepad’s app execution alias. Uninstalling QUILL Lite puts Notepad back for you.
QUILL for All has both of these too, in its own Settings. Only one program can open in place of Notepad, so if QUILL already does, QUILL Lite tells you before it takes over, and QUILL does the same.
Choose Stable, Beta or Dev
New in this version: Release Channel…, on the Help menu. Every copy stays on Stable, the version we check with JAWS and NVDA, unless you choose otherwise. Beta gets new features a few weeks early; Dev is the work in progress, for testers.
Arrowing through the three only explains them. If you choose Beta or Dev, a short warning says plainly what could go wrong and how to come back, and nothing moves until you check I understand and choose Move. Before it moves, QUILL Lite saves a copy of your settings, keys and recent files list. Your documents are not copied, and updates don’t change them.
Coming back to Stable is safe. If Stable can read everything you have saved, QUILL Lite offers to go straight back. If it can’t yet, QUILL Lite says so plainly and lets you either wait for Stable to catch up (it moves you across by itself), or go back to the copy of your settings saved when you joined. A copy of how things are right now is saved first, so nothing is thrown away.
On Beta and Dev, QUILL Lite downloads new versions in the background so they are ready when you are, and never installs one without asking. It waits on a metered connection, during Quiet Hours, and while Quill Radio is recording.
Quill Radio and QUILL Cast share one engine with QUILL Lite on your computer. When one of you moves to Beta or Dev, it gets its own copy of the engine, so the apps you leave on Stable are never touched. That copy uses about 335 MB of disk space until your last app comes back to Stable.
If an update ever fails to start, it undoes itself, puts back the version you had, and tells you so the next time QUILL Lite opens. The window’s Update History button shows everything the updater has done.
Help > About shows a build number after the version. The initial 1.2.0 release was build 1; this testing rebuild is 1.2.0 (build 3). If a newer build is published to your update channel without a new version number, Check for Updates offers it to you. Uploading a testing package alone does not publish it to an update channel.
Dictating in Spanish
New, and ready for you to try: you can dictate in Spanish. Open Dictation Settings (Alt+Shift+F6), choose Spanish under Dictation language, and press Enter. Or press Ctrl+Shift+F11 to switch between English and Spanish at any time, even while you are dictating.
- Your words come out in Spanish, accents and all, using Whisper’s multilingual speech model. It comes with QUILL Lite, so nothing is downloaded.
- The commands stay in English for now. “Scratch that”, “new paragraph” and the rest work as they always have. Spanish commands come next, once a native speaker has checked them.
- With automatic punctuation on, Whisper punctuates for you. Turn it off and you can say the Spanish words instead: “coma”, “punto”, “punto y coma”, “dos puntos”, “abrir interrogación”, “cerrar interrogación” and more.
- The wake and stop phrases become “Quill dicta” and “deja de dictar”.
QUILL has the same thing, in the same place. The user guide’s “Dictating in Spanish” has the whole list. If something comes out wrong, tell us through Help > Get Help from Support. We’re keen to hear how it goes.
Better accuracy: optional speech models
Dictation works the moment you install. If you want more accuracy, you can now download a larger model: the same local models VS Code offers for its own dictation, plus the rest of the Whisper family.
Open Dictation Settings (Alt+Shift+F6) and press Better Accuracy: Speech Models… (Alt+B). The list starts with our suggestion, NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming (VS Code’s default), then NVIDIA’s two Parakeet models, Whisper small, base and tiny, the rest of Whisper from base.en to large-v3, and a lighter Moonshine base. Each one says what it is good for, how big it is, which languages it knows, which computers suit it and whether yours should keep up.
- Nothing downloads until you press Download… and say yes to a question that names where it comes from, its size, its licence and where it will be saved. On a metered connection you are asked first.
- They are free and run on your computer’s processor; no graphics card needed. Your voice never leaves the computer.
- A download you cancel carries on later from where it stopped, every file is checked before it is used, and Remove frees the space.
- QUILL and QUILL Lite share the models on the same computer. In a portable copy, models are saved inside the portable folder, so everything travels together.
- Moonshine stays the engine until you choose another. If a downloaded model goes missing, dictation tells you in one sentence and uses the built-in one.
The user guide’s “Better accuracy: optional speech models” has every model’s published accuracy, what we measured, and “Nemotron or Parakeet: which should I try?”.
Dictation that keeps up with you
Dictation learned a lot this time, much of it from studying how VS Code does it. Everything here is in QUILL too, on the same keys.
- Hold Ctrl+F11 to talk, if you like. Ctrl+F11 still starts dictation with one press and stops it with the next. If you would rather hold the keys down while you talk, turn on Hold the dictation key to talk in More Dictation Settings: say what you want and let go, and your last phrase is written and dictation turns off. A quick press still works either way.
- Stopping never cuts you off. Press or let go of Ctrl+F11 while you are still finishing a sentence, and that phrase is written before dictation stops.
- See your words while you speak. With Nemotron or OpenAI, the words heard so far show in the status bar and on a braille display as you talk, and the final words go in when you pause. Nothing is spoken unless you ask for it, so nothing talks over you. Nemotron’s questions now end with a question mark.
- Your words go where you started. Move the cursor, or even switch windows, while a phrase is being recognised, and it still goes where you were speaking. You hear “Written where you started”.
- “Correct that.” With Windows speech recognition, say “correct that” to hear its other guesses, then “choose two” to swap one in.
- Talk to the AI. Press Ctrl+F11 in the AI Conversation window and ask out loud. Your message is sent when you pause, the reply is read aloud, and the microphone waits until the reading is done. Dictation uses its own Talking to AI settings there by itself.
- OpenAI dictation, with your own key. If you have your own OpenAI key, you can choose OpenAI as the speech engine. It is off until you choose it, it asks you first in plain words, and it says exactly what is sent: your speech goes to OpenAI and is billed to your account. You pick the model from OpenAI’s own current list. Your computer’s own engines stay the default.
- My Dictation Instructions tell Tidy Dictated Text (Ctrl+F3) how you like your writing: “write numbers as digits”, “British spelling”.
- Kinder to an older computer. Speech models are put away a few minutes after you stop dictating, giving their memory back, and an optional model that cannot keep up hands over to the built-in engine and tells you why.
More Dictation Settings… (Alt+A in Dictation Settings) holds the new choices. The user guide’s chapter on writing by voice has a section for each, and there is a new lesson, “Write by talking”, in Help > Tutorials….
Dictation: more you can do by voice
There is a lot more you can do just by talking now. All of it is in Tools > Dictation, all of it is in QUILL too on the same keys, and five new lessons in the “Working in a document” track of Help > Tutorials… walk you through it.
- Hear the punctuation. When a phrase is read back, its marks are said by name: “Hello comma world period”, whatever your screen reader’s punctuation level. The status bar and braille still show the real characters. Uncheck Say punctuation marks in the read-back in More Dictation Settings to hear just the words.
- Select and move by voice. Say “select” and some words, and dictation selects the nearest place they appear; whatever you say next replaces them. “Go to”, “go after”, “correct”, “select again”, “select previous”, “select sentence” and “select paragraph” work too. You hear where you landed, such as “Selected: the cat”. If the words are not there, your phrase is written as ordinary text and you hear “Not found, written as text.”
- Snippets and clips by voice. Say “insert snippet” and its name, “paste clip three”, or “insert abbreviation” and the abbreviation. “Copy all”, “copy that”, “show clips” and “show snippets” work too. A snippet goes in as one phrase, so one “scratch that” takes it back out.
- Letters, symbols and Markdown. “Caps on”, “all caps on” and “no space on” (handy for web addresses and file names). “Spell” and a word spells just that word, and “spell that” lets you spell out a word dictation got wrong. New marks for Markdown and code: backtick, code fence, tilde, vertical bar and caret. Start a phrase with “bullet”, “numbered item”, “block quote” or “heading two” to begin that kind of line.
- Switch between English and Spanish with Ctrl+Shift+F11, or by saying “switch to Spanish” and “cambiar a inglés”. You hear “Español.” or “English.”, and dictation remembers your choice.
- Live transcripts. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+PageDown writes everything you say into a new document of its own, for a meeting, a lecture or thinking out loud. It keeps going while you work in another document, starts a new paragraph at each long pause, and can put the time at the start of each paragraph if you check Time stamps in live transcripts.
- More time to think. Pause before a phrase is written has two new choices, Longer (2 seconds) and Longest (3 seconds). And when a phrase stops on a word like “the” or “and”, the next phrase carries on the same sentence instead of starting a new one.
- Dictation context for each document. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+PageUp lets you say what a document is, such as a formal letter or meeting notes, so OpenAI dictation and Tidy Dictated Text get your words right.
- Dictation Status. Alt+F9, also Tools > Dictation > Dictation Status, tells you what dictation is doing: on or off, the engine, the language, and any caps or spacing mode.
- Dictate in other programs. Press Dictate in Other Programs… in More Dictation Settings, and Quill Inkwell takes your settings and starts. Choose a key, and you can dictate into your browser, your email or any other program.
Turn a recording into text
Got a voice note, an interview or a lecture you need in writing? Press Shift+F5 (or Tools > Dictation > Transcribe a Recording…), choose the file, and keep working while QUILL Lite listens to it in the background. It uses the same speech engines you dictate with:
- Any model you have. The two built-in ones, any you downloaded in Speech Models, or OpenAI’s with your own key. The most accurate one on your computer is chosen for you, and the window tells you how long the recording is and about how long it will take.
- MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, FLAC and WMA, read with parts of Windows already on your computer, so there is nothing to download.
- A new document when it is ready. There is no destination picker and the transcript is not inserted into the document you were editing. Paragraphs start where the recording pauses. Timestamps, like [00:01:23], are off unless you check Add timestamps.
- Never in your way. You hear the percentage at each quarter and one sentence when it is done. Press Shift+F5 again to see how far it has got, or to stop it. Choose several files and they are done one after another.
- A length and time estimate. QUILL Lite reads duration from the audio metadata, and on Windows can use Media Foundation when another reader cannot determine the length.
- Private unless you say otherwise. With the models on your computer, nothing leaves it. OpenAI is never chosen for you, and asks before each recording is sent.
The user guide’s “Transcribing an audio file” has the whole story, including which model suits which recording.
Follow-up for testers: reopen a completed transcript
This is a follow-up after the 1.2.0 release, not part of 1.2.0. A completed transcript is now saved privately and linked from its completion notice in Notifications. Activate the notice when you are ready to open the result; it stays separate from the document you were editing.
Your recent documents, one key away
New: press Alt+Shift+0 (or choose File > Recent Documents…) to see every document you opened recently, newest first, and press Enter on the one you want. The list was always there, under File > Open Recent, but it was easy to miss. Now it has a key and a window of its own.
- Pin the documents you come back to, and they stay at the top however many others you open.
- Remove from List takes one off. The file is not touched.
- Open Containing Folder shows the file in File Explorer.
- Clear Unpinned… empties the list after asking. Pinned documents stay.
- Choose how many documents to remember, from 1 to 50, and whether files deleted from this computer drop off by themselves.
Alt+Shift+1 to Alt+Shift+9 still reopen the first nine straight away, and pinned documents now come first there too. QUILL has the same window on the same key, and the same quick keys on its Open Recent menu. The user guide’s “Opening something you worked on recently” has the details.
Notes on your document
QUILL Lite now has inline notes, the same ones QUILL has, on the same keys. A note is a comment on a line or a selection: a question, a reminder, or what you think of a plan somebody sent you. They are on Tools > Inline Notes.
- Alt+Shift+I adds a note. The window shows the start of the text it is on, so you know you are in the right place.
- Alt+Shift+J and Alt+Shift+K move to the next and previous note, and Alt+Shift+H reads the one you are on (twice to change it).
- Alt+Shift+Delete deletes a note, after asking.
- Alt+Shift+Enter lists every note in the document. From there you can go to one, change or delete it, remove them all, copy them all, or save them as a Markdown or JSON file.
Notes are private unless you say otherwise. In a Markdown or HTML
document you can write a note into the file instead, as
a hidden comment that anyone who opens the file can read, including an
AI assistant. That makes QUILL Lite a good way to review a plan an AI
wrote: leave your notes in it and hand the file back. A script can then
list or clear them with QuillLite.exe --notes.
Snippets moved to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Home to make room for the notes on the same keys as QUILL. Alt+Shift+I is now Add Inline Note.
Checking off tasks
Put the cursor on a task line, such as
- [ ] Write the tests, and press
Ctrl+Alt+Enter (Format > Toggle Task
Done). The box is checked and you hear how many tasks in the
list are done. Press it again to uncheck, or select several tasks to
check them together. Ctrl+Z takes it back.
A web page you can share
File > Export as HTML… (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+End) saves a copy of your document as one web page, ready to email or put on a website. Task lists show as check boxes. Your document stays as it was.
Opening a document however it arrives
Copy a file in File Explorer, a path from a chat or a link from an email, then press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Enter (File > Open from Clipboard). QUILL Lite opens it. File > Open from URL… asks before it downloads anything, naming the website and the size, and shows you how the download is going. You can also drag files onto the window to open them.
Careful with your files
- An older file that is not UTF-8 now keeps every byte when you save it. Before 1.2, five rare characters in such a file could be lost. QUILL Lite also tells you, once, when a file is not UTF-8.
- If an old file’s letters come out wrong, Reopen with Encoding… in the File Encoding and Line Endings window (Ctrl+Alt+E) reads it again in the encoding you choose.
- If another program changed your file since you opened it, Ctrl+S asks before writing over that change.
- QUILL Lite now notices that change as it happens, not only when you save. If you have not touched the document, it can reload it for you, keeping your cursor on the same line, and tell you once. Otherwise it asks: Keep Mine, Reload from Disk or Save As…, with Keep Mine on Enter. A file deleted or moved away is said once, and your text stays. The settings are in Preferences under When another program changes the file, the same ones QUILL has. A remembered Reload never throws away unsaved edits; QUILL Lite asks instead.
These ideas come from PlanCake, a small app by Andre of Oire Software for reviewing AI-written plans. Thank you, Andre.
Things that work better now
- Portable copies now start from a folder whose name has a space in it.
- Coming back with Alt+Tab puts your focus in your document, even when Windows is slow about it. It leaves the Find box and menus alone.
- Big files and network drives no longer freeze the window. You hear “Opening” and the file’s name, the document is read-only until the text arrives, and closing the window cancels it. If it cannot be read, you are offered Try Again.
- Two copies at once no longer undo each other’s preferences. Each keeps the changes you made in it.
- Remove Quote Marks has a key that works. It is now Alt+Shift+. (Alt, Shift and the period), under Edit > Lines. Its old key was also the key that shows and hides QUILL from anywhere in Windows, so whenever QUILL was running, QUILL Lite never heard it. QUILL’s Unquote Lines moved to the same new key.
- Closing QUILL Lite is tidier. Documents sent to it while it closes are opened next time, an update check never starts on the way out, and an error message some people saw while exiting is gone.
- Insert > Markdown Tag appears only in Markdown documents. In a plain or rich text document it used to sit on the menu greyed out, which told you nothing. Now it is not there at all, and if you press Ctrl+Alt+I in one of those documents, QUILL Lite says “Markdown tags are for Markdown documents.” QUILL does the same.
- Next and Previous Heading say the heading once. In a rich document you used to hear it twice, “Heading 1: Two” and then “Heading 1, Two” a moment later. Now you hear it once. QUILL had the same echo and is fixed too.
Keys new in 1.2
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Shift+F7 | Thesaurus |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[ | Say Word Summary |
| Alt+F10 | Look Up Word |
| Ctrl+F10 | Word Explorer |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+’ | Define in Context |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+] | Find the Word For |
| Alt+Shift+; | Dictionary Status |
| Alt+Shift+. | Remove Quote Marks, on its new key |
| Alt+Shift+0 | Recent Documents |
| Shift+F9 | Activity |
| F9 | Repeat Last Result |
| Alt+Shift+I | Add Inline Note |
| Alt+Shift+J / Alt+Shift+K | Next and Previous Inline Note |
| Alt+Shift+H | Speak Inline Note |
| Alt+Shift+Delete | Delete Inline Note |
| Alt+Shift+Enter | List Inline Notes |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Home | Snippets, on its new key |
| Ctrl+Alt+Enter | Toggle Task Done |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+End | Export as HTML |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Enter | Open from Clipboard |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Space | Keyboard Manager, on its new key |
| Ctrl+Shift+F11 | Switch Dictation Language |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+PageDown | Start or Stop Live Transcript |
| Ctrl+Alt+Shift+PageUp | Dictation Context for This Document |
| Alt+F9 | Dictation Status |
The rest of the AI dictionary’s keys are in the user guide. All of these are in QUILL too, on the same keys.
Where to learn more
The QUILL Lite User Guide, in the Start menu beside QUILL Lite, covers everything here in thirteen chapters:
- Chapter 7, Checking your writing, for the thesaurus, Look Up and the AI dictionary.
- Chapter 8, What you hear, for Activity and Repeat Last Result.
- Chapter 9, Writing by voice, for holding Ctrl+F11, the live preview, talking to the AI and OpenAI dictation.
- Chapter 10, AI help, for a Google Gemini key and your ChatGPT plan.
- Chapter 11, Making QUILL Lite yours, for Find a setting and for making QUILL Lite your text editor.
- Chapter 12, Your files, updates and QUILL for All, for keeping QUILL Lite up to date.
Help > Tutorials (Ctrl+Alt+F1) has nine short lessons, if you would like a guided start.
If you get stuck, choose Help > Get Help from Support (Ctrl+Alt+F2), or write to support@community-access.org. A person at Community Access reads every message.