Word Macro: Save as clipboard contents

I apologize if this isn't the correct place to post this, but this was the only forum I could find on here that had questions about Word. I am trying to create a macro that would save the current document with the title as whatever the current contents of the clipboard are. In other words, I have a macro that will copy some text from the page, and I'd like to do a "save as" and title it whatever is copied to the clipboard. The normal way of doing a "save as" macro is:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:= "test" ...

Instead of the "test" part, I'd basically like to have a Selection.Paste. However, putting this command in there doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to solve this?

Thanks so much in advance!

--Brendan--
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Hi kubrendan.

This is the place for Word questions. I'm still a little confused about what you want the macro to do though. Could you explain a little more and include your Word version.

 

Thanks for the reply. I'm using Word 2000, although the macro needs to work in Word 97 as well.

I currently have a macro that will take pieces of text from a page and copy them to the clipboard. What I want to do is have a macro that will do a save as and have the title be whatever text is contained on the clipboard. Does that make more sense?

Thanks!

--Brendan--
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It does. I'm gonna have to think on this one and probably play around some so probably Monday if no one else has answered before then.

 

Solution:

Selection.Copy
ClipboardText = Selection
ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:= ClipboardText & ".doc ", FileFormat:=wdFormatDocument

(I supppose that you "filled clipboard" by sommand Selection, like in my case - I need copy text from line No. 5, 4th word without end space; Next macro code goes before "Selection.Copy ":
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=5
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdWord, Count:=4
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdWord, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend)

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