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What is Ditto?

Ditto is an extension to the Windows Clipboard. You copy something to the Clipboard and Ditto takes what you copied and stores it in a database to retrieve at a later time.

Basic Usage

1. Run Ditto
2. Copy things to the clipboard, e.g. using Ctrl-C with text selected in a text editor.
3. Open Ditto by clicking its icon in the system tray or by pressing its Hot Key which defaults to Ctrl + ` – i.e. hold down Ctrl and press the back-quote (tilde ~) key.
4. Double click or press enter on the item to paste it to the previous window.

Key bindings

These can be customized in Options - Keyboard Shortcuts and Quick Paste Keyboard

Key	Function
Ctrl-`	Default Ditto window activation Global Hot Key
F3	View full text or image or html of selected text
Esc	Close Window
Tab	Move focus to the next control in the current window
Ctrl-Space	Toggle Ditto window between normal and always showing on top (persistent)
Enter	Paste Selected Items in the Target Window, or Enter Group (if the item is a Group)
Alt-Enter	Open the Clip Properties Dialog
Shift-Enter	Past CF_TEXT (plain text with no formatting) only
F3	Show Full Description in a tooltip
Ctrl-G	Show the hierarchy of Groups in a treeview
Backspace	Go to the Parent Group
F7	Create a New Group and place the currently selected Clips in that Group
Ctrl-F7New Group
Ctrl-X,C,V	Cut, Copy, Paste Clips between Groups (this does not use the Windows Clipboard)
n/p/up/down	While the description window is open this will move to the next or previous clip