How many times have you had to relay an error message on your screen to some tech support person on the other end of a bad phone line? And the thought of retyping that cryptic rubbish into an email makes you shudder? How much easier would it be if you could just copy and paste that error into an email to the helpdesk? Well guess what..you can! While you’re looking at the error message on the screen, just hit Control-C like you normally would to copy any old thing, and then go into your email, and hit Control-V (or the Paste button) to paste the error message. You’ll see the exact text of the error message appear, ready to send to the helpdesk.

This little trick is a Windows thing, so should work in pretty much any application that you need.