I assume that you are running emacs on a PC under Windows, not that it matters in this case, but it might the next time you ask a question. After getting the text in the clipboard, switch to emacs and use the standard yank from kill ring command, i.e. C-y. -----Original Message----- From: Micki Fox [mailto:mchoya33@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:14 PM To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: inserting text from elsewhere How do I insert text from another program, i.e. MS notepad, into emacs. So in any other program I copy what I want and paste it from the Windows' clipboard...(I think you get it) Thanks so much for your help!