Sure, just replace tell application "System Events" to keystroke (thedate as text)
with set the clipboard to (thedate as text) tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down I prefer the keystroke method to using the clipboard for the simple reason that the former doesn't replace the clipboard contents, which might contain something that I still want there. On Jun 14, 8:17 am, pendolino <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks jon but what i like about the 'services' for entering dates is > that they use a paste action rather than a 'keystroke' (type) action. > is there a way this can be replicated using the scripts?
