as usually I need to print out many email letters, thus i select the 
mail (in pegasus mail), copy it, open word 97 and paste it. but 
finally today i was able to configure my intrnet-stuff on the 
linux-partition, so that i have still to use less the micro$oft-part, 
my intention was to do the same, select, copy open Abiword...  but... 
there was no way to paste!!!!
maybe, that i just have a foolish way to use my computer, that there 
is a more common way to do a thing like theese, than just send me a 
reply and type: FOOL READ MORE BOOKS!! 
Then I will put away dostojewsky and go to the library for an other 
kind of literary...
...and otherwise I'll be glad to have given my contribution to 
developing a great word-processing program like abiword. keep going 
on!
mek