From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: June 11, 2005
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Paste into Word's Save-As?
>
> Leo,
> In most programs, when I want to save an open file I can
> select some text in the file, copy it to the clipboard, and
> then paste the text in the "Save as" dialog box to save and
> name the file. Unfortunately, this procedure doesn't seem to
> work in Word (or in Excel and perhaps other Office programs I
> don't use). Is there a way to tweak Word to make this
> feature available there?
>
> My motivation: I frequently copy text from other programs
> for pasting and saving as a Word file, usually to enable
> Word's search or editing features. Because I don't like to
> type anything I don't have to, when I want to save something
> in Word, I copy the text to Wordpad, select a squib of the
> text as the file name, copy it and then paste it in Wordpad's
> Save as dialog box. The file becomes a Word document after I
> close it in Wordpad.
Not sure what to tell you other than "it works for me" :-).
Quite literally I selected some text from a word document,
Hit Edit.Copy (Ctrl+C), then hit File.Save As, clicked in the
filename box, and hit Paste (Ctrl+V) and it pasted right
where expected.
Not sure why that doesn't work for you.
Thanks for asking!
Leo
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