1st February 2002
Your data is just sitting there - waiting to be copied and (subsequently) pasted into other applications. Sometimes, this rudimentary operation isn't an obvious option. Try tapping the classic CTRL+C command the next time you don't want to copy stuff from the screen manually. The other day, I needed to document items sitting in a certain Outlook folder. I didn't need to save the actual messages, so I was looking for another way to do it. I did a CTRL+A (Select All) and surprisingly enough, every visible field was copied to the clipboard! I opened Excel and pasted without a problem. In Word, however, I needed to do a "Paste Special" before the text would insert itself properly. Here's where the fun begins: what if you want to copy the contents of each message? It's easy to do, as long as you've added the "Message" field to the Outlook folder in question. Right-click on any field (From, Subject, Received, etc.) then select the "Field Chooser" option. Under the "Frequently-used fields" category, drag & drop the "Message" field somewhere in between two existing fields. Now the content will be copied, too!