Copy Results column value

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ChrisGreaves
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Copy Results column value

Post by ChrisGreaves »

Am I missing a feature that exists but that I can't find?

My results list generally includes the field "Date Modified".
I am quite used to right-click then "Copy Full Path"
For a found item I would like to load the date-modified value to the clipboard:-
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I right-click in the (orange circled) area and see nothing like "Copy" except of course "Copy" and "Copy Full path".

I would like to copy that "08/01/20226 12:08 A.M." to the clipboard.
My current solution is, after the right-click, to select "Properties" from the context menu, then drag-and-select on the "Date Modified" data and then use Ctrl+C to copy "08/01/20226 12:08 A.M." to the clipboard.
That works (for me), but I hate work.
Also ***I*** am prone to errors when using the mouse to select data, and I am a year older this year ...

If a right-click on a single data item in the results list offered an option to copy that data item to the clipboard, then 2026 would be the best year I've ever had! :lol:

Am I missing a feature that exists but that I can't find?
Thanks, Chris
tuska
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Re: Copy Results column value

Post by tuska »

Hi,
click on the value of Date Modified > Right-click > Copy Date Modified.

With the tool "Textify" it is possible to extract Date/Time as shown, e.g. 07.01.2026 18:44.
If I use 'Copy Date Modified' I get 2026-01-07 18:44:18.

See also: Shortcut for copying custom column property?
For me, the “Date Modified” column is in the 5th position (counting starts at ‘0’ zero).

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Name;Path;Extension;Size;Total Size;Date Modified
0     1      2       3       4           5
Bookmark (CTRL+ALT+I):
Search: Custom

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/comment - Column 5: Date Modified (column counting starts at 0 zero)
/copy $column5:
- The cursor was positioned on a “Date Modified” value in line 2, for example.
- To be on the safe side, “Copy Date Modified” was performed after right-clicking and the value “2024-04-07 22:45:50” was obtained.
- The cursor was then positioned again in line 2 and the arrow keys were used to check that the “Date Modified” value was selected.
- The keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+I was then pressed.
- CTRL+V did not output any value.

I'm not sure if I did something wrong...
ChrisGreaves
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Re: Copy Results column value

Post by ChrisGreaves »

tuska wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 6:10 pm click on the value of Date Modified > Right-click > Copy Date Modified.
Tuska, thanks for this prompt response,
Yes, I did do something wrong; more correctly my brain over-functioned:-
(1) I reasoned that what with this being Everything, Void would have previously worked out what I was going to want to do and implemented it, oh, years ago.
(2) With this in mind, I ignored the first two by now familiar menu items prefaced with "Copy", and scanned the rest of the list looking for something useful like "Copy Results column value"
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(3) Which means I adroitly skipped over the very thing I should have used!

Pasting into Notepad yields
2026-01-07 15:59:02
. Exactly what I wanted!!!
Thanks again; to BOTH of you! Cheers, Chris
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