Text Transform action that restores original copied text

Questions & Suggestions
#1

New to this. I tried searching, but nothing came up for what I'm looking for (or perhaps my naming is off).

Looking for an action that does this:

  1. Set var to original system clipboard text
  2. Do/create your other actions here (ie text-transform and paste into place)
  3. Restore original system clipboard text

Items 1 and 3 are repeated for all text-transforms I'm doing, so looking for a base action to not repeat adding those actions every macro I create.

Is there a way to create an action from a Macro?

Cheers,
Maximus

#2

sure, you can store in a temp clipboard:
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#3

Appreciate the response, but am looking to have an Action that does the first and last parts so I don't have to repeat all the extra steps. Is there a reference to create an Action that is an Engroup?

Cheers!

#4

Easy. As the last Action in your Macro delete the Clipboard just created, leaving the System Clipboard set to what you set it to at the beginning of the Macro:
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Here's an example:
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#5

To reference an action group you can use Execute Macro.
Create the macro such as the one by @JMichaelTX as an external Macro (Add Macro) and then call it where you need it.

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#6

Ended up with a small macro I called PasteRevert. Appreciate the help! Am able to just add this at the end of any text-transform or text-expansion.

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