Use Document scraps for "quick and dirty" document assembly - Jim Calloway

Use Document scraps for "quick and dirty" document assembly
by Jim Calloway, Director Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program

When editing a document, have you ever come across a sentence, quote or paragraph that you wanted to save for future use? You could save the sentence as a different form document. Instead, save the desired text as "document scrap" using a feature available in both WordPerfect and Word.

Document scraps are easy to create and save: Highlight the text you want to save, then drag it to your Windows Desktop using the right-hand mouse key. (You have to click on the button between the minus and the X in the upper right hand corner of the screen to reveal a part of the Desktop.) The document scrap now appears as an icon on your desktop. Whenever you want to use this scrap, drag and drop the icon into any other document and the text will be inserted. After you create them on the Desktop using this method you can move them to a new "scraps" file folder on your Desktop for storage.

When keystrokes are mentioned with a plus sign (e.g. Alt + Tab) it means that both keys should be pressed simultaneously.

When actions are separated by a dash (e.g. Click File - Print ) it means that they should be done in sequence.

First published on BankersOnline.com 1/26/04