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I guess i'm not the ony one. All the time wanting to copy that particular CLIP among myriads of them - and fast.

Let me create a folder (named for example "clipfiles") in my data-drive. And inside i create some .txt files containing clips. Why .txt files? - because notepad starts real fast, but it can be text-files of some other application. In a 'html.txt' file i put html-code-clips, in 'css.txt' css-code-clips, in 'emails.txt' email addresses etc. etc. etc.

The script:

Use: Right now in my email client i need an email-address! I start the script with a hotkey, click on 'emails.txt', select the text i want and press Esc. Just that.

Version 2:

And even faster. I omit the initial GUI, accessing one certain ClipFile directly with one stroke:

Use: Press the hotkey, select something with the mouse, press Esc. Just that.

Enjoy! And hey i would enjoy improvements. Good ideas most wanted.

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I enjoy it.
A little improvement:
In both scripts replace bybecause otherwise it will not work for example in putty.exe
(When you change to putty.exe the clipboard is managed by putty.exe and the actual content doesn't correspond to the previous "send ^c" )

I really like the concept of clipfiles but instead of opening notepad with the desired text to be highlighted I would like it to just copy the entire clipfile to the clipboard automatically and then either paste it into the active window at the cursor or let me paste it manually. Is there an easy way to do this? Basically I am looking for a "canned response" type manager and this is the closest I have found yet!

Thanks!
Danny

If i get it right, you might replace

with a simple FileRead

Only problem: unicode stuff... hence the opening with notepad.

If you want some static clips, make the filepick static instead.

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That works perfectly. I did go back to the origional code of using:

As the latter method seemed to add double line spaces when pasting into RTF clients like Outlook or WordPad.

I am using this as a "canned response" manager for a helpdesk situation so helpdesk staff can paste common steps and answers to users in an email or other document. I really like the ability for individual files as this allows the staff to share files and be able to pick from a large list of choices without having to scroll through a single large file.

Thanks so much for your help!
Danny[/code]