Pasting Clips into E-Mail...How??

Let's be sure we know what you mean by "clips". Are you talking about image scans (.jpg, .bmp, .tif) of your text?

If so, save them as a document file (.doc, .txt) when you scan them. Then open them, highlight and copy the text you want, and paste THAT at the end of your email.

Then look at it carefully for formatting as "some articles can shift in flight."

Hope that helps.

Williebee said:

Let's be sure we know what you mean by "clips". Are you talking about image scans (.jpg, .bmp, .tif) of your text?

If so, save them as a document file (.doc, .txt) when you scan them.

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There's a missing step there of doing "OCR" on the scan to generate text (unless modern software does this automagically if you say "save as .doc or .text" - and watch out for .doc, it may simply embed a scanned image into a doc file instead of OCR'ing it into text). Also, OCR can be a less than perfect process, so read the resulting text over carefully to make sure no characters were changed from what were originally intended.

I suggest copying the text into Notepad, doing any "formatting" in the text there (be aware that Notepad deals with only "raw" ASCII text and won't have fancy formatting such as bold, italics, different fonts and font sizes, but it's the best way to make sure what you see is what the email recipient sees), then copy that into the text window of the email message you send.

Williebee said:

Then open them, highlight and copy the text you want, and paste THAT at the end of your email.

Then look at it carefully for formatting as "some articles can shift in flight."

Hope that helps.

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There's a learning curve to knowing what different file formats are and what they do, and the worst thing about this is the windowing environments of Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh OS try to hide all this, "insulating" the user from these "ugly details," rather explaining them and truly enabling users.

You couldn't paste files as text in any case. Use the MS Office Document Image Writer -- it is first of all a "virtual printer" that you can send any scanned image to. Then you do the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and when it has digested that you "send to Word" -- then you copy from Word and paste.

Assuming you are not a MacUser...

But this raises a question in my mind -- why are you scanning in the first place? Are you using a typewriter? If not, you should just take selections from the original document.