How to Add an Item to the Mac Scrapbook

The Mac Scrapbook is ready to use any time from your Apple menu. Park a copy of almost anything there - text, picture, sound, movie clips - and use it again in almost any application.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Macintosh Computers
• Mac OS 9.0

1. Select something you can copy from an application: some text, a drawing or picture, even a movie clip or sound.

2. Copy the selection by clicking on the File menu and selecting Copy (or press Command-C).

3. Click on the Apple menu and select Scrapbook.

4. Paste your selection into the Scrapbook by clicking on the File menu and selecting Paste (or press Command-V).

5. Click on the Scrapbook close box (or press Command-Q). Your selected text, picture or sound is waiting there for you to copy/cut and paste into another document.

Tips & Warnings

• Since the Scrapbook is exceptionally easy to find and open, it's handy to put commonly used items there - a company logo, perhaps.
• Don't confuse the Scrapbook with the Clipboard. The Scrapbook is a permanent place to store anything you like; the Clipboard is a temporary place in your computer's memory.