Paste multiple lines into an SE16 / SE16N multiple selection

You've received a list of references and want to search them all at once in SE16? Here's the right way to paste the whole list into the multiple selection, and how to make it instant with a shortcut.

The problem

In SE16 or SE16N, when you click the "multiple selection" arrow of a field, you land on a small window with a "Single Value" column. Many consultants type each value line by line, or worse, run a search per reference, one at a time. For thirty values, it's endless.

The native method: "Upload from Clipboard" (Shift+F12)

SAP already provides a native button for this. In the multiple selection window, the bottom toolbar contains the "Upload from Clipboard" icon, bound to the Shift+F12 shortcut. If your clipboard holds one value per line, SAP loads them all at once.

Two common pitfalls: the list must be one value per line (not separated by commas or spaces), and on Windows SAP expects CRLF line endings, otherwise everything lands on a single line.

Automate it with MyToolKit

The painful part is preparing the list: cleaning it (duplicates, separators, junk text) and formatting it correctly before the upload. MyToolKit chains all of this in a pipeline triggered by a shortcut: it extracts the values, removes duplicates, puts one value per line in the format SAP expects, and even sends the Shift+F12 for you. The result: a raw list (or even an OCR capture) becomes a filled multiple selection in one move.

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