Barefoot Andrew
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A tip for not losing your lovingly typed post!If you've just spent ages typing a post, there is no need to loose it if your computer throws a temporary strop!
Before clicking Submit:-
1. Select all the text in your post (on Windows machines, choose Edit->Select All. Or, press the CTRL key and the A key together; this is the keyboard shortcut for "select all").
2. Copy your text (now selected) to the clipboard (on Windows choose Edit->Copy or press CTRL and C).
Then, if something goes wrong and it looks like you've lost your post, simply start another reply, and in the editor window, paste your copied text (on Windows, choose Edit->Paste or press CTRL and V). Hey presto, back to where you were!
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Jamanda
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I wish I could ever remember those keyboard short cuts.
Well that works at least 
Is there one for paste?
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Cathryn
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Mine has been playing up for the last couple of days. It's very slow. Anyone else having problems?
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JB
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Ctrl V for paste
a quicker way to recover your post is to simply use the back button in your browser. Nine times out of ten a browser will have kept the text you had typed in
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Barefoot Andrew
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| Jamanda wrote: | I wish I could ever remember those keyboard short cuts.
Well that works at least
Is there one for paste? |
CTRL-V 
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JB
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| ruby wrote: | | Mine has been playing up for the last couple of days. It's very slow. Anyone else having problems? |
Very slow this evening. I'm guessing the hamster should be hibernating.
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Jamanda
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| JB wrote: | Ctrl V for paste
a quicker way to recover your post is to simply use the back button in your browser. Nine times out of ten a browser will have kept the text you had typed in |
Unless it's a really long one that you agonised over......
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JB
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| Jamanda wrote: | | JB wrote: | Ctrl V for paste
a quicker way to recover your post is to simply use the back button in your browser. Nine times out of ten a browser will have kept the text you had typed in |
Unless it's a really long one that you agonised over...... |
That's a special feature that most computers have. I, in fact, worked on that while at university as part of my research into artificial malice.
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Cathryn
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marigold
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I compose long posts or PMs in Word, then copy/paste them back to DS. That way they are recovered completely even if the computer has to be shut down. I find it's quicker to edit long posts that way.
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vegplot
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| JB wrote: | Ctrl V for paste
a quicker way to recover your post is to simply use the back button in your browser. Nine times out of ten a browser will have kept the text you had typed in |
Ctrl C and Ctrl V are pretty standard across OSes. However, Windows also permits Ctrl Insert (copy) and Shift Insert (paste). I find this more intuitive as the Ctrl and Shift key are next to each other.
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