The quickest way to cut and paste a screen of XyWrite Dos text into a Windows application is to hit the PrintScreen key in XyWrite which (unless you've customised it) will put all the text on the screen into the clipboard. In my case I use Win98 and assume the same is true of newer versions. You can then paste the text into any Windows application where you then simply delete the XyWrite command line and ruler text at the top of the pasted text. The above is quicker than hitting Alt+SpaceBar and then choosing Properties, Screen, Window, Mark, Select text, Copy etc, etc. Both methods, however, convert XyWrite formatting triangles as well as Tab arrows to hollow boxes in the Windows Application. The above came back to me last week when my head of department came to me with an important document in WordPerfect 6.1 that had been corrupted. He said the University's Computer Services Department had told him it was impossible to recover. As we all know, nothing is impossible and they probably couldn't be bothered. None of the obvious, like importing into other Windows word processors, worked. So the first step to recovery was to go back to Dos. >From past experience, I fired up Norton Commander 5 and found I was able to view the "unrecoverable" file in all its glory whereas none of the Windows file viewers had been able to do this. However, all my trusty Prn2File LPT1 capture software was on my ancient Win3.1 machine at home so in the recesses of my mind I remembered the PrintScreen option. Fortunately, the recovery wasn't urgent so I didn't have to cut and past 187screens-full of text and merely printed it to file that evening. Hope the spin-off is useful to somebody. By the way, there is a PC Magazine utility from 1993 called DOSCLIP that creates a cut and paste capability in Dos programs. It is also Windows aware and does work in conjunction with the Windows clipboard. Since last week, I am now constantly using Judith's Win2Xy copy and paste technique of right clicking on the Xy icon in the Windows taskbar. Many thanks. Regards Jon Inggs ------------------------------------------------------- Try the Economic History Society of Southern Africa WWW site at: http://home.intekom.co.za/joni/ehsoc.htm Browse the Inggs family tree at: http://home.intekom.co.za/joni/ Jon Inggs e-Mail: inggsej@xxxxxxxx Economics Department PO Box 392 UNISA 0003 South Africa