Copy and paste (discussion moved from Adywan's ESB:R thread)

Ripplin said:

AuggieBenDoggie said:

just write it out on a note pad, then copy and paste.

Which messes up the thread. :p Perhaps you haven't seen that glitch in action before. (or maybe it's fixed now?)

AuggieBenDoggie said:

Ripplin said:

Which messes up the thread. :p Perhaps you haven't seen that glitch in action before. (or maybe it's fixed now?)

He was talking about his netbook crashing, not about double posts here on the boards. Someone needs to donate and get Ady a better netbook;).

doubleofive said:

Pasting from notepad is fine because it's not formatted. It's pasting from MS Word that messes up te thread.

Chewtobacca said:

AuggieBenDoggie said:

Lol,  just write it out on a note pad, then copy and paste. That way, if your note book crashes again, you wont loose any of your work.

Yeah, Adywan.  You really ought to get a grip on some state-of-the-art modern software once in a while. :-D

I just got an email that my post was deleted. That's new!

It's not new; a moderator can choose whether or not to have an email notification sent out when editing, locking or deleting posts.

You are correct that pasting from Notepad is fine; at least for MSIE and Firefox, although Chrome seems to do something peculiar to the pasted text.

The sources most likely to screw up the forum when pasted are MS Word and Internet Explorer (i.e. copying text from another website).