how can i avoid retyping text

[kentucky]

at my job, i have to type the same 2 words in nearly every text box. Besides using copy and paste, or duplicate what choices do I have?. i would like to just press one button or two and the words would be typed.

 

[Rosscage]

You can also use Step and Repeat, Select the textbox with the two words written inside then click
Item( from the menu) -> Step and Repeat
Enter the number in the Repeat count as to how many textboxes you require.
This way you can create as many textboxes with the two words inside in just one go.

 

[el236]

Well another way to achieve is to make your own library and now u can put ur whole text in there.

even u can define the label for particular text.

Hope this helps u out.
EL236

~*The Art of Communication*~

 

[GeorgeMack]

If it's the same two words, you only have to copy once. After that it's click-paste. (Use the keyboard shortcut for paste. On the Mac it's Command-V; on Windows I believe its Control-V)

Since you have to select the box anyway to tell Quark which one gets the new contents, this amounts to a one-press solution per box.

Unless you can carefully specify which boxes you want in advance, this is about as simple as it gets.

If you can either select all the appropriate boxes or specify them (say by position) AND you're on a Mac, you can write an AppleScript to fill each of them with the text in your clipboard. That would be faster and easier once you wrote the script. (Could help you with that if you're on a Mac. Nothing comparable on the Windows side, though. Sorry.)