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| Thread ID: 99276 | 2009-04-26 05:08:00 | How do I copy multiple entries to a thread to past the whole lot into word? | tuiruru (12277) | Press F1 |
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| 768543 | 2009-04-26 05:08:00 | Hi This does not necessarily have anything to do with F1 My other half is doing an online course and wants to copy a lot of comments from a thread into a Word document. Copying and pasting each individual comment is going to be rather tedious and doing a CTRL A on the web page will capture all sorts of seperators, smilies and other extraneous rubbish that she doesn't want/need. Is there a free bit of software out there that allows individual bits of text to be highlighted, copied to a clipboard and then dumped into a Word document in more or less one hit? ie save the one bit at a time step. We're using Vista and Firefox Thanks |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 768544 | 2009-04-26 05:34:00 | Use CTRL-A/CTRL-C still and paste that into notepad, then copy that into Word. You will still need to re-apply formatting such as bold etc. | Jen (38) | ||
| 768545 | 2009-04-26 06:01:00 | Use CTRL-A/CTRL-C still and paste that into notepad, then copy that into Word. You will still need to re-apply formatting such as bold etc.Not worried about the formatting. But wouldn't I have to CTRL C and then Switch to Wordpad each time (never used Wordpad)? What I thought I was looking for was some sort of virtual clipboard where I could do all the CTRL C'ing to and then into Word in one hit so I could miss out switching between apps each time round - if your way does it then great! | tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 768546 | 2009-04-26 06:06:00 | :) www.dextronet.com |
Blam (54) | ||
| 768547 | 2009-04-26 06:08:00 | It is notepad, not word pad. I quite often use notepad to strip out HTML or other formatting when copying stuff off the net. I'm not sure if there is a "virtual" clipboard that would do the same. It doesn't take long to run the text via notepad and then copy from that into Word. Try a thread or two and see if it does the trick for you. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 768548 | 2009-04-26 06:14:00 | OK Jen Apologies for the typos in the original Title I've tried the Word Pad thingy and it's a step in the right direction so thanks |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 768549 | 2009-04-26 06:16:00 | Hi again Jen Posted the "Word Pad Thingy" before I saw your very prompt reply - think I'll go to bed but not yet tho! Edit: Doing a CTRL A into either of them still takes in all the extraneous markers and stuff which will probably take longer to strip out on small posts than copying and pasting the original texts |
tuiruru (12277) | ||
| 768550 | 2009-04-26 06:31:00 | Clipboard Magic allows multiple items to be stored to its clipboard, but they have to be individually pasted into a document. It is however far more versatile than the standard Windows clipboard, and it's free ! www.cybermatrix.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 768551 | 2009-04-27 00:18:00 | Don't a lot of forums have "PDA"? view, which shows the threads in a text mode, this forum has or had it, but I can't find the switch Ok Archive view look here forums.pcworld.co.nz |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 768552 | 2009-04-27 01:04:00 | Hi tuiruru. Have you had a look at OneNote? | Scouse (83) | ||
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