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I've been working on several website designs lately, and it looks like I'll be making a lot more in the near future. I find myself browsing to lipsum.com and copying a handful of paragraphs of random text to fill a design almost daily. I was wondering, is there any way I can set up a keyboard shortcut that will always paste a certain text, for instance a few paragraphs of lorem ipsum that I saved in a text file or something?

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Autohotkey will do exactly that (although there are many similar apps). See http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotstrings.htm for your specific requirements

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  • Cool, thanks. Will check it out and mark as an answer if it works out :)
    – Stephan Muller
    Jan 27, 2011 at 9:47
  • Symantec suspected that it is a malicious program. I was skeptical but wish to try. It is pretty powerful as it is allows programming in Visual Basic. Very useful for developers like me who type the same code repeatedly.
    – Chris Voon
    Apr 14, 2015 at 6:05
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    This answer would be much more useful if it actually showed how to use Autohotkey to do this
    – Zach Saucier
    Aug 5, 2016 at 13:13
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  1. Create .bat file
  2. Insert below text clip < "myemail.txt"
  3. Create myemail.txt file and write your content
  4. Create shortcut and assign short key for the batch file shortcut
  5. When ever you want paste the content press the short cut key , it will copy the text into clipboard, just have to paste the text. .txt,.bat create any where but short send to desktop and assign short key.

screenshot showing to edit the properties of a shortcut to assign a Shortcut Key

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  • That's a great solution, I'll try and test it later today. Thanks.
    – Stephan Muller
    Dec 17, 2013 at 14:38
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    I can't edit your post, but number 2 should be - Insert below the following text: clip < "myemail.txt". Otherwise it's not clear enough.
    – BornToCode
    Jan 28, 2014 at 16:20
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    Complete instruction - yourtechtamer.com/blog/2011/08/…
    – pocheptsov
    Jan 15, 2016 at 15:41
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    Nice solution Azhar, handy for my 26 letter work domain name.
    – bwash70
    Oct 3, 2017 at 8:31

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