Editing Forum Post in MS Word / copy paste error.
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Topic: Editing Forum Post in MS Word / copy paste error.
Posted By: Roland113
Subject: Editing Forum Post in MS Word / copy paste error.
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 19:55
Replies:
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 02:27
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Hmm...
Perhaps upgrade to Firefox 3.5? Sorry, I've never had this problem, but I've done the same thing that you do into Firefox 3.5 and its worked fine. Also, what OS are you using?? -Joel ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 06:26
Doing the same and I've never had any problems, so I can't help. Probably an evil plot by Bill Gates. 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 06:38
| This has definitely been raised before but I can't remember the outcome. Try searching a bit further back. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 11:14
Thanks Joel, I'll give that a whirl, I apparently incorrectly assumed that since Firefox seems to be downloading an update every other day that it was staying completely up to date  We'll give that a whirl, for the record, I'm using XP, I believe SP3, though I'm not at the home computer at the moment. Interestingly enough, same basic system here at work produces the same issue. I'll try the update and if that doesn't work I'll go back further in the forums. Thank you all, ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
progkidjoel wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 11:47
| If you're only going to post text, I suggest you write it in Notepad or a similar text editor. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 11:54
| There is a special button over the reply box called "Paste from Word". Did you try that? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 13:32
| I've never needed to use that. At some point some change was made where I could no longer paste from Excel. I have to copy over to Notepad and then copy again to paste in to the message Window. As usual when it comes to computer things you just have keep trying different things until you make the damn thing work for you. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 13:42
< ="-" ="text/; =utf-8">< name="ProgId" ="Word.">< name="Generator" ="Microsoft Word 11">< name="Originator" ="Microsoft Word 11"> Wow, I think that my grandfather used to use the phrase “If
it was a snake it would have bit me.”
------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 12 2009 at 13:42
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^ Though apparently that didn't quite work either.
------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:17
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And sadly, the new version of Firefox did not solve the problem. I'll dig further back and see if I can find anything. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:33
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I'm telling you, Bill Gates has in for you. Try another word processor next. I recommend Open Office, it's free. Hell, it might be some obscure setting that I don't know of. You can always go really primitive with Notepad if you have to. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:35
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Wordpad seems to work fine too. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 07:37
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I signaled this a few months ago, basically everything written in Office will have that glitch. Switching to WordPad is okay, if you don't fancy too much text formatting or special..."effects". Of course, when it comes to table-making and others, things change. Notepad, on the other hand, is totally "mono", I was never happy operating with it. I can't even put something in bold, italics or underline it, without the whole text (and every other text written in Notepad) changing that way.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: August 13 2009 at 22:11
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Ahh, thanks Ricochet, I made it back as far as ten pages but couldn't find the previous thread. I don't do a lot of formatting, so I've been using Word (for it's spell and grammar checker) then pasting it into notepad, selecting everything and recopying it from Notepad into Firefox. I haven't tried any other browsers though, does anyone who's run into this know if it's only Firefox or do other browsers have the same issue? ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 14 2009 at 07:32
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Why do computers have to be such a pain in the ass sometimes?
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 14 2009 at 07:42
Because theres always a better one to buy  -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 14 2009 at 08:40
I had a thought. Is the text you're copying out of Word in Rich Text Format? ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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