Copy and Paste to OneNote (AutoHotKey script)

Copy and Paste to OneNote (AutoHotKey script)

http://it.knightnet.org.uk/2009/04/copy-and-paste-to-onenote-autohotkey.html

 

After yesterdays OneNote tool, I thought I'd do another while I think about it.

Another annoyance of OneNote is it's lack of control over pasting information from the clipboard. I've raised a suggestion with MS to improve this; you can see my comment in the newsgroup.

To ease things a little if you need to copy and paste lots of stuff to OneNote, here is an AutoHotKey script to help. You need to assign this to a hot-key and have OneNote open in the background. Select something and press the hot-key and it will be pasted (using the current default paste option as this cannot be controlled) into the current note in OneNote.

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; AutoHotKey Script to copy pre-selected stuff from the currently active window ; to the currently open note in OneNote ; ; Usage: #include in your main AutoHotKey.ahk assigned to a hot key ; Limitations: ;       1) OneNote must be open - maybe change this in the future so that content goes to a new unfiled note ;       2) Doesn't swap back to original application ; ; Author: Julian Knight, http://www.knightnet.org.uk/contact.htm ; Version: 2009-04-01 v1.0    ; We need a partial title match but we will also reset to previous setting oldTitleMatchMode := A_TitleMatchMode SetTitleMatchMode, 2    ; Settings winTitlePart := " - Microsoft Office OneNote"   ; Partial title of ON windows    ; Copy currently selected stuff SendPlay, ^c                    ; Use sendplay to avoid unexpected interactions with Win key    ; If OneNote is not started, give up IfWinExist, %winTitlePart% {         ; Save the currently active window title         WinGetTitle, actWin, A            ; If OneNote is not active, activate it now         IfWinNotActive, %winTitlePart%                 WinActivate, %winTitlePart%            ; Check again, if ON active then paste else error         IfWinActive, %winTitlePart%         {                 ; Paste to ON & Add some blank lines                 SendPlay, ^v`r                  ; Use sendplay to avoid unexpected interactions with Win key                 ; Switch window back to previously active                 WinActivate, %actWin%         }         else                 MsgBox, Could not activate OneNote window.    } else         MsgBox, Can't find ON [%winTitlePart%]    SetTitleMatchMode, %oldTitleMatchMode% return

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