Pasting into TurboTax

[Porter Smith]

Why the ******** doesn't TurboTax allow me to paste text from my
clipbopard? Specifically the password for my financial institutions when
I'm importing forms.

[Sherlock]

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: https://autohotkey.com

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

[Porter Smith]

Sherlock <sh02...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:4e83f6ea-539b-4c31...@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
12 character passwords my password generator generates.

[Sherlock]

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.

[Sherlock]

For those interested, I improved the original AutoHotKey script:

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

[al...@shocknetwork.com]

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

[Sherlock]

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

[al...@shocknetwork.com]

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, but it does not work over an SSH tunnel with RealVNC. Using Chicken of the VNC over an SSH tunnel, it can be done with ctrl-option-command-v. I don't know the keys for RealVNC over SSH.

[tjmi...@gmail.com]

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.

[osman...@gmail.com]

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