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Authored by: seedy on Apr 01, '02 12:30:39PM

Try this: Get Info on that file and select preview from the drop-down in the GI box. Not bad for a half-baked format.

Noticed something else as well, which is that when I use Zingg!(if Zingg! hasn't been a tip yet, it should be) to open the file it doesn't offer Textedit as a choice, but does offer Appleworks (I have version 5) as a choice. So maybe it's a special format.

Or you could stop dragging text, which is the simplest way. In Mozilla you can select and copy any text and it will paste into Textedit and look very nice. I've been using X since September, have swiped acres of text off my browsers (job hunting, Unix tips, etc.) and didn't even know you could drag text.

Maybe I'm advertising my ignorance, but on the other hand the process worked just fine.

I keep a Textedit link in the Dock for that very reason. And I keep a folder in the Dock called Tempfiles for just this sort of random stuff. Makes it easy to keep the desktop pattern in view.


Or we could try to find out why there's no "Open With Application" choice in the Get Info window.



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Authored by: twehr on Apr 01, '02 08:04:13PM
clipEdit 2.25 will open the clipping and then allow you to export it as a plain text file.

Unfortunately, you cannot drag and drop a clipping onto clipEdit. It doesn't open it. You have to open it manually from within clipEdit.

clipEdit will also open graphic clippings and allow you to export in various formats.

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