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Literal paste of tabular data into Excel via AHK hotkey
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| #z:: ; Text–only paste from ClipBoard | |
| KeyWait, LWin | |
| KeyWait, RWin | |
| Clip0 = %ClipBoardAll% ; Save formatted text for later | |
| ExcelBound = %Clipboard% | |
| Loop, parse, ExcelBound, `r`n | |
| { | |
| if A_LoopField = | |
| continue | |
| nonemptyline := A_LoopField | |
| Loop, parse, nonemptyline, `t | |
| { | |
| Clipboard = %A_LoopField% | |
| Sleep 50 | |
| Send ^v | |
| Send {tab} | |
| } | |
| Send {enter} | |
| } | |
| Sleep 50 | |
| ClipBoard = %Clip0% ; Restore original ClipBoard | |
| VarSetCapacity(Clip0, 0) ; Free memory | |
| Return |
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When you copy and paste in Excel with hidden columns, Excel brings over data you can't see. This AHK script pastes each cell individually in order to avoid any hidden data transfer.