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What's "Paste As File" 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!

For the moment please just read the help file under the download paste as file

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.

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

Paste As File is useful for the following, along with a lot of other uses:

  • Research - copy parts of web pages and easily paste into a research folder as a collection of files - all formatted as html
  • Saving snippets - copy code snippets from website, source files or other places and paste directly into files for storage and more research
  • 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
  • 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…