Mac Monterey Help Needed

Questions & Suggestions
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I have a Mac (Monterey) situation I could use help with.

For example, in the finder, I can highlight / copy one or more documents such as text documents.

Then I create a new Apple Mail and when I click paste into the body, it will paste in the actual documents.

Many times I totally do Not want this result and what I prefer is to simply paste the names of these documents as text rather than the actual file.

So what I have to do is open Text Edit and paste into a plain text page - and this will print out as text - the document from Finder as full titles which is what I want. Then I can copy this and paste this into the email and I will get the text list in email rather than the actual documents.

Question: is there any simpler method I can use to be able to highlight items in the finder then paste only the names as text in an email rather than the actual files?

Thanks in advance - Dave

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I don't use Apple Mail so, for all I know, there's a native solution to this, but:

Copy Names of Selected Files.kmmacros (20 KB)

Macro screenshot

Keyboard Maestro Export
Keyboard Maestro Export1448×1670 239 KB

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Just select the items in the Finder as you are doing, copy them with ⌘C as you are doing. Then use a simple Macro like this to paste in just the names and not the actual files into an open Mail document.

Paste as Plain Text in Mail.kmmacros (2.2 KB)

Paste as Plain Text in Mail
Paste as Plain Text in Mail1298×774 83.4 KB

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See, I knew I was overcomplicating things.

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Thanks for the good idea.

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Thanks much for this simple solution. Works great!

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