Pasting into TurboTax

Someone thought they were improving password security by discouraging the use of the clipboard.

A relatively simple work around is to use a program such as AutoHotKey to "paste" from the clipboard:

On Windows, I use the following script that uses Ctrl-Alt-v to "paste" from the clipboard into text fields that block Ctrl-v:

^!v:: ; paste without formatting plainpaste: StringReplace, clipboardt, clipboard, `r`n, %A_Space%, All clipboardt := RegExReplace(clipboardt, "` {2,}", "` ") StringLeft, 1st, clipboardt, 1 IfInString, 1st, %A_Space% StringTrimLeft, clipboardt, clipboardt, 1 Send %clipboardt% clipboardt return

Sherlock wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I am so glad TT is looking out for me :)

Nice idea, but it will take me longer to type the script than to type the

It only takes Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v to "type the script" ;)

The benefit to using the AutoHotKey script is that the solution applies to all programs that block a text box paste.

For those interested, I improved the original AutoHotKey script:

^!v:: ; a paste replacement tclipboard := RegExReplace(clipboard, "\r\n$") SendInput {Raw}%tclipboard% return

It doesn't appear to work for TurboTax 2017. :(

AutoHotKey and the AutoHotKey script provided do work for TurboTax 2017 and other programs where I've use it (Windows 7).

I apologize. You're right, it does work. I tried the wrong keys since I'm on a Mac using VNC. For those interested, with a MAC on VNC into Windows, you should be using control-command-v.

I apologize. You're right, it does work. I tried the wrong keys since I'm o n a Mac using VNC. For those interested, with a MAC on VNC into Windows, yo u should be using control-command-v, but it does not work over an SSH tunne l with RealVNC. If anyone has the right key mapping, please let me know.

Thanks!

Thank you soooo much for this script and the link to Autohotkey. I would not get through TT without it. I upgraded all my finance passwords to long gibberish. Impossible to type them all.

The "improved" script works great! I'm on native Windows 10 with TurboTax 2018. Many thanks!