paste a certain text into document with a hotkey

[Leopoldus]

Is ithere any option to assign a hotkey (multikeys combination) for pasting certain text into a document? Say to past the text "this is a cat" by pressing the combination Alt+Shift+C.

AutoCorrect does not support such functionality. But may be there is some other way?

Thanks!

[Robert]

Have a look at this help topic:

http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en ... #asyoutype

[Leopoldus]

Have a look at this help topic:

It seems, that Clip Library does not offer hotkeys support as well. Have I missed anything in the description or settings dialogs?

[Robert]

Hi,
You cannot use hot keys as such but you have the next best thing, you can type an asterisk (*) followed by the first 3 letters of the clip name. In this way, you can have more texts to insert than you could ever assign to hot keys. The number of hot keys you could associate with text snippets is necessarily very small but the number of clip items with mnemonic names that you can create is almost limitless.

HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

[Leopoldus]

can type an asterisk (*) followed by the first 3 letters of the clip name. In this way, you can have more texts to insert than you could ever assign to hot keys.

Actually it's a bit discussable, which way is better. The advantage of hotkeys is speed: one can press sequentially 4-5 different 2- or 3 keys combinations while you enter a Clip Library sequence (asterisk + 3 letters). However I see your approach, thank you.

Could you please to explain, what's the main conceptual difference between AutoCorrect and Clip Library functionalities? At the first glance, the both is very similar in their basis, although each of them uses a bit different approach in order to insert a previously assigned text fragment.

[Robert]

The Clip Library items can include formatted text and pictures. The AutoCorrect entries cannot. AutoCorrect entries are meant to insert simple phrases, not whole paragraphs or texts.