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| Thread ID: 127832 | 2012-11-16 02:38:00 | Bloody Cut & Paste !! Whinge for the day | dugimodo (138) | PC World Chat |
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| 1312860 | 2012-11-17 00:54:00 | Since we're on the topic, Linux has a neat feature where copy and paste is concerned: 1) Highlight some text 2) Position your cursor where you want to paste the text and hit the middle mouse button. It does does not replace the Ctrl-C \ Ctrl-V functionality, actually works independently |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1312861 | 2012-11-17 20:31:00 | A lot more responses than I expected :) and I learnt a couple tricks thanks guys. For the record, what I was attempting that triggered this thread was a copy/ paste so yes I'm guilty of calling it cut and paste when it wasn't. Using the text in this thread I've been playing with all the various methods mentioned and I discovered this; If you highlight part way through a word and drag right it jumps to the start of the word, if you keep the button held down and drag back to the start and then go right again it then stays where you set it. I'll have to try this at work next time I have the problem and see if it works there too. I'm often wanting to copy a section of text and that's where the highlighting seems to have a mind of it's own. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1312862 | 2012-11-17 21:33:00 | I find on the whole that copy and paste can be time saving. I quite often write and edit using MS Word then copy and paste the document into another programme that does not have word processing capabilities. I for example have been busy writing a message to my bank using Internet Banking and find half way through writing it I am timed out and all my literary work has been wiped. You do not get time to sit and review your message before sending it. Simple answer is to write the message using MS Word while off line then cut and paste the message into the banks message dialogue box while on line. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1312863 | 2012-11-17 22:45:00 | I find on the whole that copy and paste can be time saving. I quite often write and edit using MS Word then copy and paste the document into another programme that does not have word processing capabilities. I for example have been busy writing a message to my bank using Internet Banking and find half way through writing it I am timed out and all my literary work has been wiped. You do not get time to sit and review your message before sending it. Simple answer is to write the message using MS Word while off line then cut and paste the message into the banks message dialogue box while on line. I do that all the time - you can't trust most websites not to screw something up if you wait too long. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1312864 | 2012-11-18 20:09:00 | I do that occasionally too. Another thing that frustrates me is the cursor leaping back to some random point when I'm typing - this one is peculiar to my work PC so I don't have any option but to live with it. I have a similar problem on android but I've always suspected that is my hand brushing the touchpad on the keyboard by accident. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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