Re: Copying Text from a web page...

2009-05-04 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hi Randy; I do the same thing with emails. I often find hitting reply is the only way to read some emails especially those forwarded multiple times from well meaning friends and family. I don't think the size of the text area is the problem. I think it has to do with how the creater de

Re: Copying Text from a web page...

2009-05-02 Thread rayna424
Max, this is how I do it too. As Mark mentioned though, this doesn't seem to work for larger areas of text. When I want to copy an entire email, I hit reply so that the passage I want is in an edit text field. Then I interact, select what I want and copy. Of course this doesn't work if there isn't

Re: Copying Text from a web page...

2009-05-01 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; First press shift vo and down arrow to interact with the text. Then press vo with the return key. Then hold down vo while pressing right arrow to the end of the text you want to copy. Then press vo plus return again. Then use the command c and command v to cut and paste as usua

Re: Copying Text from a web page...

2009-05-01 Thread Mark Baxter
For short things you want to copy, like numbers, I suggest using the VO shift C feature, copy last phrase to clipboard. As for longer passages, say selecting a paragraph or text on a page, I believe this is one of the things VO cannot do, but I'd love to be corrected and taught differentl

Copying Text from a web page...

2009-05-01 Thread Mike
Hi all: How do you copy text from a web page to past into a document? I needed to copy a mailing address and a line of text which contained a job competition #. As well, I'm having problems in accessing the spelling suggestions in Open Office 3.0.1 inorder to correct the mis spelled items. TNX a