Advanced

Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
Command line
Installing on many computers
Where settings are kept
Portable use

Settings

Open File → Settings, or right-click the icon in the notification area and choose Settings. Changes take effect straight away.

The Settings pages
Page	What's there
General	The shortcut that opens the Tray Transpose Tool from any program; starting with Windows; copying the result automatically; whether closing the window keeps the program in the notification area.
Chords	Which chord style pasted songs are read in; guessing the key; typo warnings; playing chords when clicked, and the sound (guitar, piano, organ and others); highlighting every pasted song; avoiding E♯ B♯ C♭ F♭; Nashville numbers or Roman numerals; words allowed on chord lines.
Text & highlighting	The font for plain-text songs; highlighting plain-text songs; wrapping long lines; the look of titles, headings and chord lines; the words that mark a heading.
About	Version, installation, the settings file, and Reset to defaults.
License	Trial status, buying, activating and deactivating. See Trial and full version.

The Settings window on its Chords page, under Reading songs: Chord style of pasted songs, set to Work it out from the song; ticked boxes for guessing the key, warning about misspelled chords and playing a chord when clicked; a Sound list set to Acoustic guitar (steel strings) with a Try it button; and an unticked box to highlight chords and headings when a song is pasted in. — Settings, Chords page.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts in the Tray Transpose Tool window
Keys	What they do
`Ctrl`+`Alt`+`T`	From any program: open the Tray Transpose Tool with the song on the clipboard (change it in Settings → General)
`Ctrl`+`T`	Transpose from the From key to the To key
`Ctrl`+`↑` / `Ctrl`+`↓`	Up or down a half step
`F5`	New song from the clipboard
`Ctrl`+`Enter`	Copy the whole song and hide the window
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`C`	Copy the whole song
`Ctrl`+`H`	Highlight chords and headings
`Ctrl`+`Z` / `Ctrl`+`Y`	Undo / redo (typing and transpositions)
`Ctrl`+`B`, `I`, `U`	Bold, italic, underline
`Esc`	Hide the window
`F1`	This manual

Command line

When the Tray Transpose Tool is already running, these commands go to the running copy.

Command-line options for TrayTranspose.exe
Option	What it does
`--show`	Open the window with the song on the clipboard
`--tray`	Start in the notification area without opening the window
`--settings`	Open Settings
`--quit`	Exit the Tray Transpose Tool
`--activate <key>`	Activate a license key on this computer
`--install`	Install or update it on this computer (shows the install window)
`--uninstall`	Remove it; add `--quiet` to skip the questions
`--help`	List these options

Installing on many computers

For a school, church office or music department:

Run TrayTranspose.exe --install and choose For everyone on this PC. It installs to C:\Program Files\Tray Transpose Tool and adds a Start menu shortcut and an entry in Windows Settings → Apps.
Activate each computer with "C:\Program Files\Tray Transpose Tool\TrayTranspose.exe" --activate TTT-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX, run as the person who will use it. Each license covers two computers; ask us about more.
Remove it silently with "C:\Program Files\Tray Transpose Tool\TrayTranspose.exe" --uninstall --quiet.

Where settings are kept

Settings are kept in %AppData%\TrayTranspose\settings.json for each Windows user. Problems are logged in error.log in the same folder; include it if you contact us. Settings → About → Open folder opens it.

Portable use

To keep the program and its settings together, for example on a USB stick, create an empty file named TrayTranspose.settings.json next to TrayTranspose.exe. Settings are then saved there instead. The trial and the license are tied to the computer and the Windows user, so a portable copy still needs activating on each computer it's used on.