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Question about pasting

Hello all, I have maybe one unusual question, at first let me please explain my situation:

- I am using online banking
- when logging in, I need to enter my PIN and account number
- PIN I remember, it is just 5 digits, but bank account I cannot remember
- every time I go into my Mail app, search for this number, copy it, go back to Safari and paste it there
- since I am doing it quite often (2x per week), I am already tired of it!

So, my question is - is there any small app, that would allow me to put this number to a buffer and then paste it anytime with special shortcut? Or I could imagine small nice app that would go up into bar, there I would just quickly choose the item to copy (it could be more items)...

Is there any solution for that?
I know it is maybe stupid question, but I love Mac and I am sure there can be some way to do that 😉

Thank you in advance.

Macbook 5.1, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 31, 2011 4:04 AM

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Mar 31, 2011 6:37 AM in response to tomjam

You could use a Text Substitution to assist you in filling it in every time 🙂 These have been added in Snow Leopard.

You can find this feature in System Preferences:
System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > Text Substitutions

You could for example add #bank to the list, and have it replaced with your account number.

Mar 31, 2011 11:00 AM in response to tomjam

Unfortunately none of these two suggestion works 😟

- text substitution does not work in filling form (as well as e.g. in address bar, just try it)
- autofill I of course tried, but it is not working in this page. I think it is kind of security reason, because of bank...

Any more suggestions please?

Mar 31, 2011 12:15 PM in response to tomjam

I have it! I have it!

http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2010/06/10/safari-extension-autocomplete/

Totally easy tweak to enable Autofill even on pages, that are disabling this option (banks, etc.). Wow!

+P.S.: For users using Safari < 5.0 there is this solution: <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20041012233334948+

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