Star Wars Galaxies can be a surprisingly text intensive game: there's chat, e-mail, reporting resources, seller's descriptions on Bazaar and vendor sales, and so forth.

Fortunately, the game recognizes the Windows clipboard and you can cut, copy and paste using it, even to other Windows applications.  Unfortunately, the game doesn't map the keyboard commands to do this by default.  You have to map the keys yourself.  Here's how.

First, open the Options screen (O by default) and click Keymap at the bottom of the button list on the left.  Click the Chat tab at the top of the new Keymap screen, then scroll down the alphabetized command list to the Chat Edit Copy command.  Click Rebind and press the keyboard combination you want to assign to that command, then click OK.  Repeat the rebind step for the next two commands, Chat Edit Cut and Chat Edit Paste.  When you have assigned all three, click Done at the bottom.  If you forget to do this, your rebindings will not be saved.

Personally, I like to assign Chat Edit Copy, Cut and Paste to the Windows defaults of Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V respectively.  If you do that, remember to remap the Planetary Map command (normally Ctrl-V) and the Character Sheet command (normally Ctrl-C).

Use Alt-Tab to move between Star Wars Galaxies and the Windows desktop.  I do not recommend this for computers on the slow side.  It works fine for me, but I have a pretty fast computer with a gigabyte of dual-channel RAM.

Star Wars Galaxies can also run in windowed mode, which may be faster if you're moving a lot of text back and forth.  Toggle from full screen to windowed mode by pressing Alt-Enter. The desktop resolution must be greater than the game resolution or the game will only run in full screen.  Note:  Switching from windowed mode back to full-screen mode will cause a client crash.  Logging out, exiting the game and logging back in is the only safe way to get back to full screen mode.