Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Time to update this since no one in charge will.  Do this:

 

  1. Download "autohotkey" from the https://www.autohotkey.com/ web site.
  2. Follow the instructions given when you run it first; all you have to do is create a new .ahk file somewhere (right click in Windows explorer, new/AutoHotKeyScript).  Give it an easily remembered name, e.g. "fixturbotax.ahk", and edit it (right click on the file, select "Edit Script").
  3. Insert this line (slightly changed from above):
    ^!v::Send {Raw}%clipboard%
  4. Save the file, double click it.

After doing this every time you hold down the control and the alt keys while typing "v" AutoHotKey will type the contents of the clipboard into the computer, just as you might but without typos.

 

Previous the suggestion was to use "^+v", which is control+shift.  This no longer works because a Windows update hijacked that sequence for "paste plain text..."  You can change the sequence you use but if you do check first that the new sequence does not already do something.

 

You have to run the script (double click it) each time you log in or restart the computer.  There's probably some way of turning it off but I don't know what that is.