PG,
Open a word document, or start an email to yourself. Highlight the text that you would like to copy with your mouse. Push and hold the CTRL button on your keyboard then hit the letter "C"
Go to the open file you started, then hit and hold CTRL again and hit the letter "V", that will import the text you want to save to the new document, like this;
How about an easy way to copy them off to a file before you clear them out ?
P.G.
Cakepiece.