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I have a frequent need to enter my email address various places, such as to Unsubscribe from mail I don’t want.

Is there an easy way to store the email address so that I can easily paste it when I need it?

I have never used macros, so I don’t know if that is any sort of solution.

Ken

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Personally, if it were me, I would just store the email address in a notepad .txt file, which I then pin to my taskbar, and copy and paste it when needed.

If this takes too many clicks for you then I’d recommend AutoHotkey, which is what I use when I want to create macros. It’s not the simplest program, but it is powerful and once you learn how to use it it will speed up a lot of things. You can bind any key or key combination to do a huge variety of things, and set it to start when you load Windows.

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Kenneth Stephens, wavy

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AutoHotkey makes it simple. Just choose a key combination that is not used regularly, for example 2 consecutive tilde characters (~~) or hash characters (##) or @ characters (@@). It can be anything you want.

Now tell AutoHotkey that whenever it sees that key combination it is to *immediately* and *automatically* replace the key combination with your email address. You can achieve this in just one line.

For example, just change this AutoHotkey one-liner to suit your own choice and email address:

:*:~~::my_name@my_email_provider.com

Breaking this down character by character:

: - This first colon says 'Listen up! Instruction coming'
* - Carry out the instruction *Immediately* without waiting for a SPACE or RETURN/ENTER
: - Second colon ends the previous 'Immediately' clause
~~ - An example key combination
:: - Signal to replace first key combination with new replacement text
my_name@my_email_provider.com - Example replacement text

Put that all together and that one-liner tells AutoHotkey to wait until two tildes are typed then immediately overtype them with the replacemnt email address… and all done with a simple and single one line of code.

Hope this helps…

 

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Kenneth Stephens, access-mdb

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I’ve just started using AutoHotKey  and didn’t know about the asterisk. I shall have to start studying it a bit more….

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@access-mdb – Another example of a hotstring replacement:

:*:@now::
{
FormatTime, TimeString,, dd-MMM-yyyy
SendInput, %TimeString%
}

Breaking it down:
: – This first colon says ‘Listen up! Instruction coming’
* – Carry out the instruction *Immediately* without waiting for a SPACE or RETURN/ENTER
: – Second colon ends the previous ‘Immediately’ clause
@now – Another example ‘hotstring’ key combination
:: – Signal to replace (overwrite) the first key combination with new replacement text

{…} – The two lines of AHK code within the curly braces tells AutoHotkey to insert the date, formatted as dd-MMM-yyyy, overwriting the ‘@now’ hotstring.

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This is what I have for inserting a date. It’s instant for me.

#x::
FormatTime, xx,, d MMMM yyyy
SendInput, %xx%
Return

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Yours uses a Hotkey combo (Windows key+x together)  that waits for the Windows modifier key (#) to be released, mine uses a Hotstring (@now) that fires immediately the Hotstring is typed.

Apart from the time format they’re functionally identical, just coded differently.

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