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 in SAPscript.

The SAPscript Clipboard
Use

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

Prerequisites

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

Procedure

Choose Edit ® Select to select the text.

Choose Edit ® Selected area ® Copy or Edit ® Selected area ® Cut and Edit ® Paste to copy text to the clipboard and to reinsert it.

SAPscript User Clipboards
Use

You use the SApscript user clipboard to copy "permanent" text areas. The "permanent" text persists in the clipboard until you overwrite it, even if you log off or the SAP System is restarted.

Prerequisites

You can use the SAPscript user clipboard only within a single R/3 system and client.

Procedure

Choose Edit ® Select to select the text.

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

To insert the text, choose Include ® Clipboard ® User clipboard and the desired clipboard.

Note

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

ABAP Editor Clipboard
Use

Use the ABAP editor clipboard for copying blocks of text from the ABAP editor to the line editor.

Prerequisites

You can use the ABAP editor clipboard only within a single R/3 system and client.

Procedure

To mark text in the ABAP editor, use the line commands XX, YY, or ZZ. Each command copies text to a different clipboard. It must be used in pairs, for example, XX <text to mark> XX.

To insert the text into the line editor, choose Include ® Clipboard ® Line editor and choose 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

You may have to copy text from external programs line by line, since text areas exceeding one line are not correctly pasted into SAPscript. However, from ASCII editors, such as Microsoft Notepad, these text areas are copied correctly.

If you paste a text area from an external program into SAPscript, the paragraph and character formats are not copied.

Procedure

Mark the text by pulling the cursor.
In a Microsoft Windows PC, press CTRL and Y first to switch to select mode.

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

Choose Include ® Clipboard ® Clipboard to paste the clipboard contents into SAPscript.
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 You can also use the hot key STRG-V ( Paste).