James, I was able to select all text on a web-page www.excite.com in FireFox 1.5 and was able to paste it into SimpleText in classic. So thats works, text is text right... The only thing I might image might be a problem is how big of a file you can put into the clip board in os 9 vs os 10, right . Daniel J. Brieck Jr. >>> >>> James Asherman wrote: >>> >>>> On Dec 1, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Sy wrote: >>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> **What I'm trying to get a sense of is that suppose >>>>> I'm using a new OSX capable Broswer and want to cut >>>>> and paste some text from the browser into one of my >>>>> Classic (OS 9.1 apps) documents. Can I do that without >>>>> any problem like my using a very old Microsoft Works >>>>> 3.0 app. which is about15 years old but runs fine on >>>>> 9.1? >>>>> >