Re: Convert units using Spotlight
Re: Convert units using Spotlight
- Subject: Re: Convert units using Spotlight
- From: Bev In TX <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 08:24:23 -0500
Have you tried doing a "select all" in Spotlight before doing the paste?
Bev
> On Sep 8, 2017, at 11:28 PM, Hans van den Broek <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It drives me nuts. I want to automate: Copy a unit (say 28 ℃), ask Spotlight
> to convert it, copy the result, enter the result in my text.
>
> Without Automator, this is perfectly simple: Select the unit, ⌘-C to copy it,
> ⌘-tab to open Spotlight, ⌘-V to paste the unit, ⌘-C to copy the result,
> launch/activate the app with my text, ⌘-V to paste the Spotlight result.
>
> If I translate this to an Automator Service, things already go wrong when I
> paste the original value (that 28 ℃) in Spotlight. An older entry is still
> there, and I can't get rid of it, and as a result, I don't get a err,
> result....
>
> I can assure you that this is not my first Automator action, so I must be
> doing something incredibly stupid. Any idea?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hans
>
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