Req. For Help: Create new text boxes from clipboard

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From: Michael Allison
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:43

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Hey all,

I'm very new to scripting and was hoping one of you had a script in your arsenal that would help me out.

I have a user who has to create labels for graphs. This person gets a text file with text for each label that has a hard return after each label. Currently, the user has to copy each text label, create a new text box, then paste in the copied text.

Is there any way to copy the list of labels into the clipboard, then run a script to create a text box for each label in the list.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Michael Allison

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