Saving Clipboard items

[John Stevens]

I want to be able to save the clipboard items for a
particular document when I close it so that the next time
I open the document all of the same clipboard items are
still associated with that document.

How can I do that?

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Can't be done. But you could save them as AutoText entries--not in the
document but in the document template.

 

[John Stevens]

I'm an English teacher and would like to have a database
of a sort of stored comments on students' essays. I
would like to access these commonly used comments to
insert them as MS Word "comments" to a student's typed
essay. (Most of my students make the same mistakes so I
find myself handwriting the same comments over and over
again. This year, I wwant to do it digitally.)

I thought the clipboard would do the trick but if those
clipboard comments disappear every time the file is
closed, I would have to re-copy the "database" of
comments into the document every time I marked a new
paper. Not the end of the world but if I can avoid it, I
would like to.

I tried your Autotext suggestion but I don't think it's
going to work in the way I need it to.

Do you have any other suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, I tested this, and what I found out is that you *can* use AutoText in
comments; Word just makes it annoyingly hard. AutoComplete doesn't work, and
if you type the name of an AutoText entry and press F3, regardless of what
you type, you get a status line comment that it is not a valid AutoText
entry name (even though this may be patently untrue). Nor can you use the
AutoText toolbar. You can, however, use Insert | AutoText to insert entries
in comments. If you create them in the comment pane, they will be in the
Comment Text style, which will reduce the list to just those you've created
for the purpose. This is definitely the way to go.

 

[John]

Wow! That works! I thank you and my students thank you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad I could help (and I learned something, too).