newsclip.htm
License
This document is Free, (in both the "beer" and "speech" sense).
The original can be found here: http://www.jfitz.com.
You may use, distribute, or modify this document, any way you see fit, commercially or otherwise,
provided this License, and the following Copyright statement are reproduced unaltered at the top
of the redistributed or modified file.
This document is supplied WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. Use it at your own risk.
Copyright (c) John Fitzgibbon 2002. All rights reserved.
Purpose
When invoked from a context menu in Internet Explorer, this document copies
a html snippet to the clipboard. The snippet links the highlighted text to
the current URL. Typically, I use it for copying news headlines. If the
word "By" is in the text, it is assumed that the author's name follows the
"By" and the highlighting takes this into account.
Installation
- Save this document in a folder of your choice.
(For example, "c:\scripts\myscript.htm")
- Select Windows "Start", then "Run" and enter "regedit".
(RegEdit allows you to edit your registry.)
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NOTE: Be VERY careful when using RegEdit!! Editing the wrong values
can cause problems running Windows or other programs!!
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- Navigate to the "Internet Explorer" key as follows:
(Note: "keys" are the labels in RegEdit's tree list)
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER
- Software
- Microsoft
- Internet Explorer
- You should see a key inside "Internet Explorer" called "MenuExt".
- If not, add a new key as follows:
- Right-click the "Internet Explorer" key.
- Select "New", then "Key" from the menu options.
- Give the key the name "MenuExt".
- Expand "MenuExt", (double-click it).
- Add a new key with the name you want to appear in the browser's
right-click menu, (for example "Myscript").
- After adding the key, double-click the "Default" value on the right
hand side of the RegEdit screen.
- Change the Default value to the full path to the saved file.
(e.g., "c:\scripts\myscript.htm")
- Next, right-click the new key, (e.g. "Myscript"),
select "New", then "DWORD Value"
- Give the new "DWORD Value" the name "contexts".
- Double-click the new "contexts" value on the right hand side,
and change its value to "ff", (Hexidecimal).
- Exit RegEdit and close all instances of Internet Explorer.
- When you next open Internet Explorer, right-click menus should have
the new option.