====== 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 - 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 [[:pasteasfile:download|download paste as file]]

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**Paste as file** will create a file with anything that's copied onto the clipboard.

[[What can you use PasteAsFile for]]?

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: 

  * 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

===== How is "Paste As File" Useful? =====

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===== SEO =====
 
**SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)**. Rsearch the top 10 search results on Google for a phrase?

Search, copy results to the clipboard, 'paste as file' into a folder as 'html'.

You retain all the formatting for the original search results
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===== Research ======
 
**Research**. A great use case for 'Paste as File' is research.

Google to find results, copy the results parts from websites and 'paste as file'; either RTF, PDF or HTML format into a folder.

Retains the formatting and links as per the original content.
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===== Images ======
 
**Images**. In many situations you want to screenshot images.

We recommend using a screenshot tool such as [[https://getgreenshot.org/|Greenshot]]. Mark you image to capture, and then 'paste as file' into a folder in any supported image format.

This could also convert your image to PNG, TIFF, JPG, PDF, etc at the same time.
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===== PDF Creation ======
 
**Easy PDF Creation**. Without using any tools you can hightlight, and copy any content.

Right click and Select 'paste as file' in a folder, then paste the clipboard contents as PDF.

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

  * **Research** - copy selected parts of web pages. Paste into your "research folder" as a collection of files - all formatted as html and perfectly viewable in a browser.
  * **Saving Snippets** - copy code snippets from websites, source files or other places. Create files with code snippets as you find them. These snippets can be **converted into many formats** including RTF, HTML, PDF, PNG, JPG, TXT, etc.
  * **Creating files** - break down content into separate files
  * **Copying images** - copy an image from a web site and just paste it directly as a graphic 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...**//