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Copying from Mozilla
Authored by: MtnBiker on Jun 07, '02 01:32:30PM

I've been copying hints from this site using IE and pasting into TexEdit Plus and the font formatting comes along (The by line is white so I have to change that) and it makes it easier to read my favorite hints.

In Mozilla, it comes across as unformatted text. Bummer. Back to IE.

Also, I don't know if it's my system at the moment or Mozilla, but Mozilla is slooooower.

My larger problem is how to get stuff into word processes from html with the minimum of fuss. Whole pages seem to be easier saving from IE as html, opening from Word and converting tables to text and dumping all the extraneous information. I use this primarily to save mlti-part tutorials.



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Copying from Mozilla
Authored by: seedy on Jun 07, '02 11:37:32PM

1) Are you using the 1.0 final build? If so, it may be that your prefs file is getting old. Sometimes I just drag the Mozilla folder out of ~/Library
then let Moz make a new one and then replace my bookmarks and mail. Unfortunately, I lose all my settings as well, so I only do this if there's a dire issue (like it won't start up).

2) I cut/paste all the time from Mozilla but use Apple's TextEdit, which will format nicely unless you've checked "Ignore HTML" in the prefs. It's very handy, because each time you click the dock icon you get a new blank. Doesn't save things like typesize and font, but does preserve the text in a readable format, with no stranded lines and no need for a text cleaner (what fun THAT used to be!). Just used it last night to grab some Alan Watts articles. I like reading in TextEdit because I can control the typesize and font, esp. for long stuff.



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