Mimi Carpenter <mcarpenterSAGPH.ORG> wrote:

> Actually, scrap objects are useful to WRITERS -- not of code but of
> documents -- who are using Office.
>
> Create a Word document, select all or part of the document, and drag the
> selection onto the desktop or to a window. You will have a new file
> called "Document scrap 'something or other'". This can be useful when
> you want to keep scraps of text around without using the clipboard or
> notes.

"useful" is a bit of an understatement.

It is to support exactly (and only?) that functionality that SHS and
SHB file types exist.

Without them this little-known and less-used feature of the OS would
not exist.

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Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
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