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Ditto Getting Started

Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.

Basic Usage

• Run Ditto.
• Copy things to the clipboard, e.g. using Ctrl-C with text selected in a text editor.
• Open Ditto by clicking its icon in the system tray or by pressing its Hot Key which defaults to Ctrl + ` – i.e. hold down Ctrl and press the back-quote (tilde ~) key.
• Double click or press enter on the item to paste it to the previous window.

Terminology

• Copy Something copied to the Clipboard (e.g. using Ctrl-C). These appear as items in Ditto’s Main Window list.
• Every Clip is composed of one or more Formats, each having its own Type, e.g. ANSI text, Unicode, BMP images, html, xml, etc. Each Format represents a different aspect of the object you copied onto the Clipboard.
• Every Clip also has a Description that is extracted from the beginning of the Clip’s CF_TEXT Format. The Description is used to represent the Clip in Ditto’s list and is searchable using the Filter Box
• Target or Focus Window = the window that Ditto pastes to.

Features

• Global versus Local Hot Keys
• Properties
• Filter Box
• Groups
• Transferring Clips over a Network

Keyboard shortcuts

• Ctrl-` -- Default Ditto window activation Global Hot Key
  
• Enter -- Paste Selected Items in the Target Window, or Enter Group (if the item is a Group)
  
• Ctrl-C -- Places current item on the clipboard
  
• Esc -- Close Window
  
• Ctrl-Space -- Toggle Ditto window between normal and always showing on top (persistent)
  
• Ctrl-E -- Edits the current clip
  
• Ctrl-N -- Creates a new clip
  
• Alt-Enter -- Open the Clip Properties Dialog
  
• Shift-Enter -- Past CF_TEXT (plain text with no formatting) only
  
• F3 -- Show Full Description in a tooltip
  
• Ctrl-A -- Select All
  
• Alt-C -- Clear the search filter
  
• Ctrl-G -- Show the hierarchy of Groups in a treeview
  
• Backspace -- Go to the Parent Group
  
• F7 -- Create a New Group and place the currently selected Clips in that Group
  
• Ctrl-F7 -- New Group