With Windows NT, 95, or 98, you can save a portion of text or graphics from a document into a separate file by simply highlighting the text or graphic in the original file, and dragging it onto the desktop. This creates a "scrap" which you can later drag into another file where it will automatically insert itself.

This may sound like a roundabout way of copying and pasting between documents, but the advantage is that you can save multiple scraps this way and they stay on your desktop until needed—even days later.

Try this with various text or graphics programs.

Free *Cheap Trick* of the Week: December 13, 1999