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Does anyone know if there are any key macro facilities built into windows or know of any freeware utility I could download? I have lots of screens to fill in with basically the same information and can only save myself one field by cutting and pasting from the previous one.

Rhymester

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Andrew,

This is probably not what you need, but in windows text boxes, once you have hilighted (shift + arrows), etc... and copied , Ctrl + C, you can paste the buffer into any text box with Ctrl + V

There is a Visual Studio freeware that uses WinAPI calls to allow mapping, but I have not seen it in years. It was available as a Visual Basic "Add In" , but outside the VB environment, i don't know if it would be useful.

Brings back the painful old days of writing applications using DBase macro's... Yuck! Flat Programming Sucks!

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Originally posted by StarValleyWy
Andrew,

This is probably not what you need, but in windows text boxes, once you have hilighted (shift + arrows), etc... and copied , Ctrl + C, you can paste the buffer with Ctrl + V

There is a Visual Studio freeware that uses ...[text shortened]... t outside the VB environment, i don't know if it would be useful.
On my Mac I used to have something called QuickKeys but that was a long time ago.

I was just wondering... is it possible to paste not just the text but the 'jump to next field' commands as well? If it were I could just highlight field one and do a ctrl v... too much to ask?

Rhymester

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I think you would have to use Tab or Ctrl Tab to jump up or down between Text Box fields... That is still faster than the mouse though, and Ctrl V will work repeatedly.

List of Windows Shortcut Keys...

CTRL+A Select all.
CTRL+C Copy.
CTRL+X Cut.
CTRL+V Paste.
CTRL+Z Undo.