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-====== What's Paste As File all about? ======
+====== What's "PasteAsFile" all about? ======
+Quite simply, it's the **utility for Windows** you thought you didn't need, but when you use it, **you wonder how you managed before!** Please read all the content and join up - it will save you hours of work!
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+Anything you **copy** onto your **Windows clipboard** can be **pasted** into a file in any folder.
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+For the moment please just read the help file under the [[:pasteasfile:download|download paste as file]]
+{{:blog:pasted:paste_as_file_20180828-095038.png }}
+**Paste as file** will create a file with anything that's copied onto the clipboard.
+[[What can you use PasteAsFile for]]?
+You can copy images[(PNG, JPG, plus many others)], text and web content and then easily paste it onto Windows Explorer. This will then create a file of that content.
+You can **convert the clipboard** content to different formats such as:
+  * Web (html) from standard content
+  * PNG to JPG or JPG to PNG
+  * Convert text, html or any image straight to a PDF!
+  * Convert clipboard content directly to rtf format for Microsoft Word editing
+  * Sort the content on the Clipboard before pasting into a file
+===== How is "Paste As File" Useful? =====
+<grid>
+<col xs="12" md="3">
+<thumbnail>
+{{ :pasteasfile-logo.png?nolink&400 |Paste As File Windows Utility}}
+<caption>
+===== SEO =====
+**SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)**. Say you wanted to research the top 10 search results on Google for a certain keyword phrase.
+You would search, copy the results to the clipboard, and then 'paste as file' into a folder in the format of 'html'.
+You would then retain all the formatting and links for the original search results
+</caption>
+</thumbnail>
+</col>
+<col xs="12" md="3">
+<thumbnail>
+{{ :pasteasfile-logo.png?nolink&400 |Paste As File Windows Utility |}}
+<caption>
+===== Research ======
+**Research**. A great use case for 'Paste as File' is to research some topics.
+Use Google to find results, the copy the result parts from various websites and 'paste as file' as either RTF format, PDF format or HTML format into a folder.
+You will retain all the formatting and links as per the original content.
+</caption>
+</thumbnail>
+</col>
+<col xs="12" md="3">
+<thumbnail>
+{{ :pasteasfile-logo.png?nolink&400 |Paste As File Windows Utility |}}
+<caption>
+===== Images ======
+**Images**. In many situations you want to screenshot images.
+We recommend using a screenshot tool such as [[https://getgreenshot.org/|Greenshot]]. Mark you image to capture, and then 'paste as file' into a folder in any supported image format.
+This could also convert your image to PNG, TIFF, JPG, PDF, etc at the same time.
+</caption>
+</thumbnail>
+</col>
+<col xs="12" md="3">
+<thumbnail>
+{{ :pasteasfile-logo.png?nolink&400 |Paste As File Windows Utility |}}
+<caption>
+===== PDF Creation ======
+**Easy PDF Creation**. Without using any tools you can hightlight, and copy any content.
+Right click and Select 'paste as file' in a folder, then paste the clipboard contents as PDF.
+This will convert the content at the same time to a nice PDF file - including links!
+</caption>
+</thumbnail>
+</col>
+</grid>
+The "Paste As File" Windows utility is useful for the following, along with a lot of other uses:
+  * **Research** - copy selected parts of web pages. Paste into your "research folder" as a collection of files - all formatted as html and perfectly viewable in a browser.
+  * **Saving Snippets** - copy code snippets from websites, source files or other places. Create files with code snippets as you find them. These snippets can be **converted into many formats** including RTF, HTML, PDF, PNG, JPG, TXT, etc.
+  * **Creating files** - break down content into separate files
+  * **Copying images** - copy an image from a web site and just paste it directly as a graphic file in your folder
+  * **Creating PDF files** - copy a section of a website for documentation and then just paste that as a PDF file in one operation
+  * //**Plus many many more uses...**//