Did You Know About Microsoft Scraps

Image: Screen grab by Jason Bean

I just found out about a little feature of Microsoft Word that I never knew before today.

Where you aware of a feature and file type called a "scrap"?

The file doesn’t even have an extension. It’s just part of the shell command features.

What it lets you do though is highlight a portion of text in your Word document and drag it to the Desktop like a shortcut. You can then, drag it back into another place on your document later when you need. It’s kind of like an extended, persistent clipboard feature.

Might be interested to have a folder of little scraps of things you find yourself repeating a lot in documents. There are other 3rd party applications that extend your clipboard type functionality as well, which may be what you should look for if you’re on Vista.

The developers took the scraps feature out of Vista due potential exploits by malware software and hackers.

Always learning something new though. I thought it was pretty cool.