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Copy results from the Spotlight Calculator
Authored by: gabester on Nov 01, '10 11:49:42AM

Wow... I'm not the first to go complaining about obvious hints because what is obvious to one may be obtuse to another. It is clearly intuitive and within the norms of OS X operation, but I had not discovered this previously (and had on occasion wanted to copy the Spotlight menu's calculator results.)

Interestingly, (and I'm on 10.6.4 here as well) selecting another Spotlight search item and using the copy shortcut copies the path to that item - assuming you don't have the text within the Spotlight search field itself selected!

I think when I'd tried this in the past I must have entered my calculation, closed the spotlight menu, gone back in and wanted to look at the total again, at which point the search text is highlighted, so hitting command-C gets me 100+4 instead of any generated Spotlight menu items.

Thanks - a useful, if intuitively obvious, hint!
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