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Looking for a simple app/script for work w/ Firefox & Excel

Jan 18, 2017 8:57AM PST

Hi all /

I've been trying to do that myself but unfortunately I forgot basic programming that I did 10 or so years ago so I'm looking for advice from you Happy

I'm looking for a way to do the following:

I have two apps opened - Firefox and Excel (or Open Office Calc).

1)I'd like to be able to quickly search a xls document for a link or an email address that I'm coveting over in Firefox with cursor. Instead of copying the link/address, pasting it in the search field in Excel and hitting enter, I'd like it to be done with a single hotkey combination. And it would be great if it could do that with a text selection on a page in the browser or with the content of the browser's address field.

2)I'd like to have hotkeys that would allow me to copy a link/email I'm hovering over, or a text selection, or the contents of the address bar in the next empty cell in the column A or B of an xls document (for example I press Ctrl+D and the content of the address bar gets copied to the next available cell in the column A, I press Ctrl+S and what I'm hovering over gets copied to the next available cell in the column B etc.)

Do you guys know any apps or script systems with good documentation that can help me with this? If there are scripts, can you guys give me some examples that I can change and fine tune myself?

Thank you Happy

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