# Passing text item value to a paste custom text

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/passing-text-item-value-to-a-paste-custom-text/42764>\
**Category:** Floating Menus / Widgets\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/passing-text-item-value-to-a-paste-custom-text/42764 "2025-03-11T10:20:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/passing-text-item-value-to-a-paste-custom-text/42764/2 "2025-03-11T11:25:12Z")

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with 5.265 alpha you can copy the UUID of your text field item (right-click it in the BTT configuration UI), then use this in the paste action (with your UUID):

```auto
(BTT)@variable:4F14398B-E174-479F-8BFE-9EB55347868E(BTT)

```

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