Keyboard or script shortcut for effects?

Hi all,
I'm looking for a solution that will save me a lot of time. Please help!
When I'm editing voice-over audio, I repeatedly use a handful of effects on little snippets of whatever track I'm working on. For example: Low Pass Filter on certain "s"es or "z"s. It's a pain to always have to go to the Process menu and manually set the sliders each and every time. I thought you'd be able to make a droplet for this and have sit nicely in the toolbar but apparently I'm wrong. (Another nice one would be a script for analyze and fix selected audio for pops and clicks; somehthing else I do a lot of...)
So, does anyone know of a shortcut (or outside plugin that would allow me to create a shortcut)? I'd be grateful
Cheers,
David

Hey Andy, thanks for the ultra-quick response!
I'd take your advice, but I don't think it's what I'm looking for. Rather than paste effects to multiple clips, I'd like to paste effects to different selections of the same clip. I spend most of my time cleaning up voice-over tracks (removing pops & clicks, mainly) and I spend an ungodly amount of time going through the same keystroke steps: select click, analyze selection, fix all, etc. I just want a short cut that will apple the "analyze and fix all" steps to whatever I have selected. Or, to apply my customized Low Pass Filter settings to an overly-sibilant "s" that I've selected — thus saving me from having to go through all the menu commands.
Of course, my workflow process may be all wrong to begin with I've just always assumed that most folks clean up audio this way (rather than apply "fix pops and clicks" to 20 minutes of audio at a time, which would produce a lot of undesired results.)
Thanks for the advice, though!
David

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