willald
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I am trying to post a new topic in one of the forums related to a repair I'm working on, and it has a few links in it, making it very, very difficult to post without doing cut & paste. Used to be able to do cut & paste when posting, now it won't allow such anymore.
Is there a way around this, a way to paste in a bunch of text when posting? Without being able to cut & paste, a lot of things I'd like to post on here, would be very difficult if not impossible..
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CA Traveler
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Here's my cut and paste, very easy. What changed for you, browser, you're hacked, etc?
I am trying to post a new topic in one of the forums related to a repair I'm working on, and it has a few links in it, making it very, very difficult to post without doing cut & paste. Used to be able to do cut & paste when posting, now it won't allow such anymore.
Is there a way around this, a way to paste in a bunch of text when posting? Without being able to cut & paste, a lot of things I'd like to post on here, would be very difficult if not impossible..
2009 Holiday Rambler 42' Scepter with ISL 400 Cummins
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willald
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Thanks, CA Traveler. Apparently it is something specific with the laptop or browser on it. After saw that you were able to cut/paste OK, I tried doing so from my iPhone using Safari, and it worked fine. Soooo, it must be something with the browser on the laptop.
Guess any time I need to do a cut & paste, will have to use iPhone.
Will
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theoldwizard1
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Use multiple tabs. Make a new tab for your reply. Go back to the original and either copy from it, or make more NEW reply tabs.
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2oldman
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Complex posts are best done offline first, perhaps in a txt file. I find doing anything like that on a phone very challenging.
With Chrome I notice Ctrl-c (copy) sometimes fails to work, so I use right click. Dunno why.
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2oldman wrote:Complex posts are best done offline first, perhaps in a txt file. I find doing anything like that on a phone very challenging.
With Chrome I notice Ctrl-c (copy) sometimes fails to work, so I use right click. Dunno why.
Same thing I do, I'm finding I'm "fat fingering" more than I used to especially here ![[emoticon]](https://forums.goodsamclub.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/confused.gif "confused")
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Some years ago, I was using a Firefox extension that allowed you to use an external app such as MS Word, to write your post. When you clicked on the forum's 'Reply-to-Topic' link, you would see an additional icon in the text-area. Clicking the icon would launch MS Word, allowing you to compose your forum post. When you saved or closed MS Word, it would automatically paste the contents back into the forum's reply-to-topic editor. Was very handy, though no longer available as changes in browser security prevented it working solely as a browser extension?
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