Instead of capturing an entire web page, e-mail message or other document, you can just capture selected text. To do this, copy the selection to the Windows clipboard in the usual way for the application, and then press WindowsKey+F8. The selected text is displayed in the WintextCom Reader, you can begin reading it and press ENTER to save it in the library. Press Escape to abandon it and return to your application. "*Clipboard" is displayed on the status line instead of a real filename when reading selected text in capture mode.

This feature allows you to select specific information in a document that you want to save, or just a particular section. Note that if the document as a whole can be saved as a web page, saving selected text will only save the text, links are not preserved unless the link text displays the URL. However, saving selected text can be much more satisfactory than capturing an entire page if you only require the text content and links are not important. Another use of this feature is to save virtually a whole document but skip a block of text at the top or bottom.

In some cases where WintextCom cannot determine the type of a document and attempts to capture it as a whole by copying to the clipboard when you press WindowsKey+F9, this procedure may not be reliable. In such a situation, you can copy the whole document to the clipboard yourself, usually by pressing Control+A,Control+C, and then press WindowsKey+F8 to capture it.

Pressing Alt+WindowsKey+F8 instead of just WindowsKey+f8 opens the library immediately for you to save the contents of the clipboard, without displaying the text in the WintextCom Reader first. This is useful if you want to quickly snap selected text to the library, or the whole document, for later reading, but do not want to read it at that time. It also makes it possible to just save the document or a portion of i in a disk file,, rather than using whatever features are provided by the native application.

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Saving Selected Text