Seeking Guidance on Conditional Text Replacement in Keyboard Maestro

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@Macaniac

As a newcomer to this powerful tool, I'm in need of some assistance

Hi, @Macaniac; welcome to the Keyboard Maestro forum.

Since you are a new forum user, I'm going to refer you to four references that will make your time here much more efficient:

• Getting Started with Keyboard Maestro and the Forum
• How Do I Get The Best Answer in the Shortest Time to Questions on the KM Forum?
• Entering and Enhancing Forum Posts
• How to Post/Upload Your Macro to the Forum

Once you've read the above information and dive in, you'll find that there are many friendly users that are happy to assist.

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@Macaniac

Specifically, I'm trying to find the first instance of "From:" and replace the ensuing header with a simplified version, such as "On Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 19:35, 'First Last' wrote:". This script is intended to run only on certain emails, not all.

Regarding your objective, I have a couple questions/comments:

• What email application are you using?

• Finding and selecting the text block to be replaced would be the most difficult, if not impossible (depends on the email program), automation challenge. However, if you selected the text, and triggered a macro (e.g., with a hot key) it is relatively easy to replace the selected block with the format you specified. See below.

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Download: Replace Selected Mail From Block.kmmacros (7.9 KB)

Macro-Image

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Macro-Notes

• Macros are always disabled when imported into the Keyboard Maestro Editor.
  • The user must ensure the macro is enabled.
  • The user must also ensure the macro's parent macro-group is enabled.

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System Information

• macOS 14.2 (23C5030f) PRE-RELEASE SEED SOFTWARE
• Keyboard Maestro v11.0.1

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