I use a hotkey Alt-Win-D to insert a date string like 2022-01-28.
It is defined like this in my autohotkey.ahk file
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#!d:: Send %A_YYYY%-%A_MM%-%A_DD%
I've suddenly seen many more programs start to fail to work with AHK hotkeys, including Word and Excel (where their functioning is critical for me). Outlook still works when editing an email, and PowerPoint still works properly, though. Notepad fails, but Firefox (which is a 64 bit program) works.
I've thought this was a 64 bit vs 32 bit issue, but I have confirmed that Word and Excel are still running as 32 bits after the recent update.
"Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (16.0.14326.20702) 32-bit "
What is the root cause of this failure and can I fix it by changing my hotkey code?