Larry Stewart <[log in to unmask]> wrote

     Suggest you download and try the excellent shareware program
    from Thornsoft called Clipmate.
    With it constantly lurking in the background, all you have to do is
    keep on highlighting text, pressing <Ctrl><C> to copy the text,
    then go to the next text you want and repeating the steps.
    Clipmate simply writes it to its ever expanding database where
    you can retrieve, reformat (remove special fonts,etc), remove
    extra line breaks and glue items together where you can then
   treat them as one complete block of text that you want to then copy
   someplace else.


Larry,

Thanks for your reply. Some of the above features, namely copying
text to a 'database' is already available in a program that I use
- Notetab.

However what I was looking for was something a little extra - to
automate the subsequent steps, namely to write that text into a new
file in a folder of my choosing.

Here's a summary of my original question again:

>>
I often need to copy text from documents that I am
browsing through and set it up in a 'readme' file
in an appropriate folder.

So the steps currently are:
   Copy selected text
   Click to appropriate folder in Windows Explorer
   Go to File/New/Text document
   Rename 'New Text document' to 'Readme'
   Click on Readme file
   Paste text
   Save file
>>

Thanks
Harvey Segal

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