Copy things or rather part of things.

[Sam-antha]

Given a long thread, how can I Copy say one longish post for reading elsewhere ? eg to prepare a reasoned reply off line ?

[Shelly Preston]

Hi Samantha

Why not copy it to microsoft word. You can also perpare your reply there.

[Julie Avery]

After reading your question, I just noticed that under "Thread Tools", in the bar across the top of a thread that you've entered, there's an option to e-mail the page that you're viewing, so that might work for you.

[Sam-antha]

Tried to Copy and would you believ I got the whole thread. Selective copy does not seem possible

[Tamara Croft]

Huh?? just highlight the text (click on screen with left mouse and drag over the text you want to copy), right click on it and click 'copy', then paste it into a txt file or word document....

[Wendy me]

ok lift click on the text to coppy hold down the left boutton and drag over text to be coppyed this should highlight it now right click select coppy...go to were you want to put it right click selecte paste...done...

[Sam-antha]

Just how could I have forgotten that one ? Thank the two or three of you, memory of mouse ears (Left variety) is a thing that changes with age.
I think a distractio factor was my habit of using the KB instead of the mouse. In Word for example, one holds down the Shift and uses the arrow keys to highlight or select. That does not work here, or in fact anywhere on line !
Ah well, thank youse

[Wendy me]

youse's welcome..............

[Sam-antha]

Wendy, I just remembered, thanks to your left mouse ear suggestion, that once highlighted, info is dragable and once dragged, it is only necessary to release the mouse ear on the new site.
I suppose it is not true dragging since the mouse needs to be released when selection is completer. Then the left ear is again pressed and the pointer moved to the required location where the ear is released. A one finger op with no other selections.
But thanks for the help here and at other times.

[Tamara Croft]

Actually, you can drag the left mouse button and then still right click with the right mouse button and the menu will come up, up to you though to figure out which one you let go of to select the option you need..... common sense isn't it :rolleyes: I mean, come on, this isn't rocket science, did you really need to be told to 'let go' of the left mouse button??

[Jasmine Ellis]

:doh: :clap: :bs: :p

[Sam-antha]

As I described it is not necessary to touch the right mouse ear at all. Therefore you would not need to read and select from the drop down menu.
Yes, there are so many ways, all of them simple, but all different aren't they ?

[Jasmine Ellis]

:rolleyes: :cheeky: :eek: :doh: