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Here's a quick outline of the process of c/c/p, followed by a detailed set of instructions to explain the process. 1. Press your Find key. 2. Type the first few words of the beginning of the text where you want to highlight. 3. Press the Return key to highlight those words. 4. Press Shift + Arrow key(s) to continue highlighting. 5. Press CMD + C to copy what you highlighted. 6. Go to Write in Mail. 7. Hit CMD + V to paste what you copied. You've done it! My friend Magic Man has written a short, concise and accurate tute on how to c/c/p. You can view it here. Now here's the longer, explanatory version of the process. First, you need to "tell" your web box where to begin copying. (That would be the word First in this paragraph.) Just hit your Find key and enter the word first into the popup. Keep in mind that entering the letters fir will also do the same thing (in this example), More than one word may be typed into the pop-up to ensure that your browswer finds the correct place to start. Now hit Return. You will see you have highlighted those words or letters. (If you find you have highlighted the "wrong" thing, even though the letters/words match, see the footnote farther down in this article, which explains the CMD + G feature.) Now hold down your Shift key, and use the "down arrow" and/or "right arrow" to begin highlighting everything you want to copy. You can stop it at anytime. If you copy too far, you can use the "left arrow" or "up arrow" to go back and stop exactly where you want. Here's a little trick to make highlighting go faster if the text is very long. Once you have highlighted a line or two, hold down the Shift key and tap the Scroll down key to highlight a screen at a time! Each tap of the Scroll Down key will highlight another screenful. Now that all the text you want is highlighted, hold down the Cmd key and hit the letter C. (C stands for Copy.) It is now copied into your unit's "memory." You may now leave the email or webpage you are copying. Go to Mail, and then choose Write. After you have addressed the email and completed the subject line, put your cursor where you want to begin "pasting" the text you have copied. You may type as much as you want before or after pasting, if your copied text needs an introduction or a conclusion. Now you are ready to paste. Hold down the CMD key and lightly tap the letter V. If you hold down the V too long, you will keep repeating the pasting process. Note: If you have copied a VERY long passage, you may experience a delay of a few seconds before the "pasted" text appears. Believe it or not, you're done. When using CCP, the correct paragraph breaks are sometimes transferred to the new email, and sometimes not. If the pasted material appears to have "lost" the correct paragraph spacings, you must "edit" the text yourself. This is done by placing your cursor at the beginning of the first word of each new paragraph, and hitting the Return key to place one blank, or empty line between paragraphs. Once you have done this slight bit of editing, you can highlight and copy the new, edited version if you need to paste it again, somewhere else. Note: One more thing about highlighting. You may use any of the arrow keys. Down arrow highlights one line at a time. Right arrow highlights one letter at a time. Up arrow "unhighlights" a line at a time. Left arrow "unhighlights" a letter at a time. Anything you have copied into memory will remain there until you either log off, switch usernames, or copy something else. Once something has been copied, it may be pasted again and again, until is is erased by logging off, etc. Another method of copying is easier, and much faster, but will copy the entire page. You can use CMD + A to highlight the entire page, then CMD + C to copy to memory. If you use this method to CCP an email, be sure your yellow highlight box is on the email side of the page, say over the email address, and not in the sidebar on the left. Otherwise, you will highlight the sidebar itself. *Footnote: Another command is CMD + G. You can use this to move from one set of highlighted words to the next occurence of those same words. To highlight a previous occurence of the highlighted words, use CMD + B. (Think of G for Go, and B for Back.) One final note....... Occasionally, you may find that you are unable to c/c/p the text of an email. This is usually because the sender used html coding to place an image (picture) above the headers (the "To:" and "From:" part of the email.) This causes c/c/p to not work at all, but there are a couple of workarounds for the problem. You can click on "Forward" while reading the email, and many times you can then c/c/p the part that wouldn't c/c/p earlier. Or, you can click on "Reply" and then click "Attach original message" and sometimes that will work. But the "sure-fire" cure is this... Bounce the email to yourself and then the html code will be shown rather than activated, and you can then c/c/p the text you want. If you are not sure how to "bounce" an email, here are my instructions on the method.... Next, we will learn how to "smallify" quoted text. Choose "next page" to continue, or you can go Back to the Index for other topics. |
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