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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

Even shorter than that...

Highlight the text, then go up to the Application's menu (eg: as I 
write this, Mail) and under "Services" select "Make New Sticky Note"

It'll make a new Stickies note with the highlighted text for its content

~ian

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On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Scott wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Jake Greene wrote:
> > In windows he would highlight a bit of text and use "file, print,
> > print selection" to print only that bit of highlighted text.  That
> > same functionality seems to be missing from OSX and he's, as the kids
> > say, frustrated.  Any ideas?
>
> Was this application specific? I don't see a way to do it directly 
> however I can think of one work around:
>
> 1) Launch Stickies (Applications -> Stickies)
> 2) Select the text / graphics you want to print
> 3) Drag the selection onto a blank stickies note (you may have to hold 
> down the mouse button a moment before starting the drag)
> 4) In the Stickies application you can print the currently active note.
>
> You can sell the side advantage that stickies will keep your tidbits 
> around and quickly accessible :)
>
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- Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me you built a time 
machine... out of a DeLorean?
- The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, 
why not do it with some style?
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