Using Clipboards (SAP Library - BC - Word-Processing in the SAPscript Editor)

Using Clipboards

You can use four types of clipboards for cutting and copying text.

The SAPscript Clipboard
Use

Use the SAPscript clipboard for copying text within or between SAPscript documents.

Prerequisites

You can use the SAPscript clipboard only within one R/3 system and one client.

Procedure

To mark the text, choose Edit ® Select.

To copy to and from the clipboard, choose Edit ® Selected area ® Copy or Edit ® Selected area ® Cut, and Edit ® Paste.

SAPscript User Clipboards
Use

Use the SAPscript user clipboards to copy "permanent" text areas. The "permanent text" is kept in the clipboard until you overwrite it, even if you log off or restart the R/3 system.

Prerequisites

You can use the SAPscript user clipboards only within one R/3 system and one client.

Procedure

Choose Edit ® Select to mark the text.

Choose Edit ® Selected area ® Copy to user clipboard
Select one of the five available clipboards.

To insert the text, choose Insert ® Clipboard ® User clipboard and select the appropriate clipboard.

Note

You can edit the contents of the SAPscript user clipboards. Choose Goto ® User clipboard to open a normal SAPscript text entry session for the contents of one of the clipboards.

ABAP Editor Clipboards
Use

You use the ABAP editor clipboards for copying blocks of text from the ABAP editor to the line editor.

Prerequisites

You can use the clipboards of the ABAP editor only in one R/3 system and one client.

Procedure

To mark text in the ABAP editor, use the line commands XX, YY, or ZZ.

Each command writes to a different clipboard. It must be used in pairs, for example, XX <text to mark> XX.

To insert the text in the line editor, choose Insert ® Clipboard ® Line editor.
Select the appropriate clipboard.

PC or Workstation Clipboard
Use

Use the PC or workstation clipboard for copying text

Between SAPscript documents when you cannot use a SAPscript clipboard.

Between SAPscript and other programs running at your PC or workstation.

From SAPscript to the ABAP editor (small blocks of text only).

Prerequisites

If you want to copy texts from external programs into SAPscript, you may have to do it line by line. Text areas that exceed one line are not inserted correctly in SAPscript. However, from ASCII editors such as Microsoft Notepad, these text areas are inserted correctly.

If you copy a text area from an external program into SAPscript, paragraph and character formats are not included.

Procedure

Mark the text by dragging the cursor.

In a Microsoft Windows PC, switch to select mode first by pressing CTRL and Y .

Choose CTRL C ( Copy) or CTRL X ( Cut) to copy from SAPscript to the clipboard.

Paste the clipboard contents into SAPscript with Insert ® Clipboard ® Clipboard (or use the hot key CTRL-V for Paste).

The paragraph formatting in a SAPscript text is correctly copied into the new SAPscript window. Blocks of SAPscript text or editor text that extend beyond the end of the SAPscript screen are correctly inserted too.