Txt from Clipboard

More often than not, to copy and paste text, we need to open documents, select the content and use the standard hotkeys. As the name suggests, Txt from Clipboard is a tool designed to help you conveniently create plain text files from your clipboard to any directory on your hard drives.

Following a quick and uneventful installation, you can find the application in the context menu of the Windows Explorer. The program does not have an interface and can only be accessed from the context menu. However, this is not exactly a drawback, considering the role of the tool.

Having this option right at your fingertips spares you a lot of time and energy. If you were to do it without any third-party programs, then you would need to add and edit some keys in the Registry Editor so that you have the option to copy to clipboard in the context menu.

The app does not have the copy to clipboard option, but you can add it manually if you need it. More precisely, you need to locate the Clipboard subkey in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\text\shell and set Copy to Clipboard as its data. Afterwards, you need to create an addition subkey dubbed command and set its default value to cmd.exe /c type "%1" | clip.exe. If done correctly, you should be able to view the Copy to Clipboard option in the context menu on any text file.

The idea behind the tool is to simplify the entire process, which otherwise would imply modifying registry files. Without denying that using the classic method is not a big deal when you are handling just a couple of documents, working with bulk files may take a lot more time than you imagine.

In the eventuality that you work with and copy-paste large chunks of text regularly, then perhaps you can consider giving Txt from Clipboard a try.