[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keith Burns wrote:

> I am trying to use the Ethereal capture in a document describing the 
> behaviour of an application on our network. Essentially it would be 
> great if I could selectively grab the relevant Packet Detail sections 
> and paste say into MS Word. (ideal, I realise).

Nobody's yet implemented cut and paste of that sort; it's in the wishlist.

> Is there anyway other than the XML export options to do this? The XML 
> files when openned in say Excel do not provide a very readable format.

Export as text to a file; if MS Word can insert the contents of a text 
file at a given point into a document, you can just do that, otherwise 
read the file in Wordpad or (assuming MS Word can read plain text files, 
which it probably can) Word, and then cut and paste.