# Ditto - Getting Started

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Table of Contents:

Ditto - Getting Started

What is Ditto?

Basic Usage

Terminology

Ditto’s Main Window

Features

Key bindings

Ditto - Config

Ditto - FAQ

Ditto - Custom Key Strokes

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

- Run Ditto.
- Copy things to the clipboard, e.g. using Ctrl-C with text selected in a text editor.
- 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.
- Double click or press enter on the item to paste it to the previous window.

Terminology

Clip = Copy = Something copied to the Clipboard (e.g. using Ctrl-C). These appear as items in Ditto’s Main Window list.

- Every Clip is composed of one or more Formats, each having its own Type, e.g. ANSI text, Unicode, BMP images, html, xml, etc. Each Format represents a different aspect of the object you copied onto the Clipboard.
- Every Clip also has a Description that is extracted from the beginning of the Clip’s CF_TEXT Format. The Description is used to represent the Clip in Ditto’s list and is searchable using the Filter Box

Target or Focus Window = the window that Ditto pastes to.

Ditto’s Main Window

- Title Bar = Caption = Displays the number of Clips selected and the current Target window.
- Saved Items List = History List = Lists the Clips saved from the Clipboard.
- Filter Edit Box = Filters the List by Description. After searching, a "C" button appears to the right of the edit box (also triggered by Alt-C), which Clears the filter and resets the list to its default view.

Features

- Global versus Local Hot Keys
- Properties
- Filter Box
- Groups
- Transferring Clips over a Network

Key bindings

Ctrl-` | Default Ditto window activation Global Hot Key
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-A | Select All
Alt-C | Clear the search filter
Ctrl-G | Show the hierarchy of Groups in a treeview
Backspace | Go to the Parent Group
Alt-Home | Go to the History Group (all Clips)
Alt-End | Go to the list of all Groups (no Clips)
F7 | Create a New Group and place the currently selected Clips in that Group
Ctrl-F7 | New Group
Ctrl-X,C,V | Cut, Copy, Paste Clips between Groups (this does not use the Windows Clipboard)