RESOLVED: Can someone please explain the Windows Clipboard.

Hello there,

I have just today decided to start using a Clipboard Manager (many different freeware and trials I have tried; they all seem to do the same thing) in conjunction with HelpNDoc (a free "windows help file" maker; I find it is a good idea for making your own encyclopedia of information).

I like it in Microsoft Word where you can copy parts of a website from your browser (tables and formatted-text and images; all on the same clipboard); and then you just paste the clipboard contents into MS Word and it has similar formatting and the text and images are all copied!

I cannot recreate this in my HelpNDoc. i.e. I can't just copy from my browser (Firefox); because it just pastes itself as plain text when I paste it into HelpNDoc .

IMPORTANT PART: But this is thing I need help with...

When I copy into MS Word from Firefox (so it is now formatted; thanks to something MS Word does)and then...
I copy from MS Word into HelpNDoc it comes out formatted (not plain-text!).

So HelpNDoc has the capability to paste formatted text & images; I just need to find something that will copy website contents to the clipboard like MS Word does.

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I found this following program:

The above program is the OPPOSITE to what I need. because when I copy from the Firefox browser (or IE I'm sure) I want the clipboard to paste formatted text AND images into my HelpNDoc program.

So is there a Clipboard manager that can keep the text and image formatting? I have not found one yet.

But I would like to know what someone else knows about this topic. Please help me if you can.

I know it is not the programs I am using (Firefox and HelpNDoc are capable of what I want); it is the way the copied data is stored on the clipboard, the way MS Word stores it is how I want it stored in a Clipboard Manager.

 

No - the problem is that HelpNDoc isn't rendering HTML. HTML is the code underlying web pages and can be rendered by Firefox, IE, and Word. The default behaviour of the clipboard is to transfer the underlying HTML code, and not the resulting rendered text.

When you paste HTML into Word, Word converts it into its own format which is of a format that HelpNDoc is able to read.

Have a look at this Microsoft page describing the clipboard.