Paste a specific file to current folder.

[tinman_72]

I have been teaching myself AutoIt scripting for a while now and everytime I come up with a project I am amazed at what I am able to accomplish with it. However, I seem to have run into a brick wall.

I have a template Excel file that I would like to be able paste into any explorer window without having to navigate to the template to start the copy. I figured the easiest way to accomplish this would be to have a script that copies the template source path to the clipboard, then I can just CTRL-V and the file will copy.

The only AutoIt command that I can find for manipulating the clipboard is ClipPut, but that only enters text into it. Is there a way to manipulate the clipboard as previously described? Or is there a simpler way whether it involves AutoIt or not?

[water]

Welcome to AutoIt and the forum!

Why not just use FileCopy?

[orbs]

@tinman_72, welcome to AutoIt and to the forum.

i second @water, except that you need your script to determine the path displayed in Windows Explorer before you can call FileCopy.

[tinman_72]

FileCopy works great. I didn't realize that the title of the window is the path so it actually made the script very short.

Thanks guys.