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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! | + | 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 [[: | For the moment please just read the help file under the [[: | ||
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**Paste as file** will create a file with anything that's copied onto the clipboard. | **Paste as file** will create a file with anything that's copied onto the clipboard. | ||
- | You can copy images, text and web content and then easily paste it onto Windows Explorer. This will then create a file of that content. | + | [[What can you use PasteAsFile for]]? |
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+ | 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: | You can **convert the clipboard** content to different formats such as: | ||
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===== How is "Paste As File" Useful? ===== | ===== How is "Paste As File" Useful? ===== | ||
- | Paste As File is useful for the following, along with a lot of other uses: | + | < |
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+ | ===== SEO ===== | ||
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+ | **SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)**. Say you wanted to research the top 10 search results on Google for a certain keyword phrase. | ||
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+ | You would search, copy the results to the clipboard, and then 'paste as file' into a folder in the format of ' | ||
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+ | You would then retain all the formatting and links for the original search results | ||
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+ | ===== Research ====== | ||
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+ | **Research**. A great use case for 'Paste as File' is to research some topics. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | You will retain all the formatting and links as per the original content. | ||
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+ | ===== Images ====== | ||
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+ | **Images**. In many situations you want to screenshot images. | ||
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+ | We recommend using a screenshot tool such as [[https:// | ||
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+ | This could also convert your image to PNG, TIFF, JPG, PDF, etc at the same time. | ||
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+ | ===== PDF Creation ====== | ||
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+ | **Easy PDF Creation**. Without using any tools you can hightlight, and copy any content. | ||
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+ | Right click and Select 'paste as file' in a folder, then paste the clipboard contents as PDF. | ||
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+ | This will convert the content at the same time to a nice PDF file - including links! | ||
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+ | The "Paste As File" Windows utility | ||
- | * **Research** - copy parts of web pages and easily paste into a research folder as a collection of files - all formatted as html | + | * **Research** - copy selected |
- | * **Saving | + | * **Saving |
* **Creating files** - break down content into separate files | * **Creating files** - break down content into separate files | ||
- | * **Copying images** - copy an image from a web site and just paste it directly as file in your folder | + | * **Copying images** - copy an image from a web site and just paste it directly as a graphic |
* **Creating PDF files** - copy a section of a website for documentation and then just paste that as a PDF file in one operation | * **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...**// | * //**Plus many many more uses...**// | ||