Thanks for your help Alan – we may look to add that feature

Alan,

Thanks for your reply. It is just plain text and I can have a look at the method with the restrictions above. Once the report is completed the user can choose from various output options -> print the report -> email the report ->preview the report and  -> save the temporary report file as a file on disk. In general we or our users have no problem getting the report content using one of these options but at a customer site we had a permissions issue and thought we could use the preview to copy and paste the content which led to the question.

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply. We are just using the print preview to view the contents of text file. Our report program outputs to a temporary text file and one of the options available to the user when the report is complete is to view the text file which is done using the print preview. We were running a report on customer site and someone suggested – would it be possible to copy everything to the clipboard when viewing the report? It is not really a problem for us that we cannot do this.