yankiequilter Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sometimes when I write a reply or PM I want to paste text into it and cannot find a way to do it. I see the icons for 'Paste', 'Paste as Plain Text', and 'Paste from Word', but nothing that I have done will allow me to paste, and it is getting frustrating. What do I have to do differently? Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningThreads Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sometimes when I write a reply or PM I want to paste text into it and cannot find a way to do it. I see the icons for 'Paste', 'Paste as Plain Text', and 'Paste from Word', but nothing that I have done will allow me to paste, and it is getting frustrating. What do I have to do differently? Thanks for your help! Carmen If you mean like this, go to the post you want to copy from and click quote in that post and that post will show up in your reply to topic window and then you can edit out anything you don't want. I haven't tried but I suspect multiquote would let you quote from more than one post. The other way is to highlight the text you want to copy and right click copy and then use right click past to insert in your reply or PM. It shows like this What do I have to do differently? Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Thanks, Nigel, but I am trying to paste from outside the forum, not copy from another post. For example, today I tried to copy a web address into a post that I made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningThreads Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Ok for that I usually go to the webpage right click the address bar and copy. Then go to your new post and right click paste. I am using Chrome, I think Explorer is the same. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Nigel, thanks but that does not work for me. I am computer literate and can copy and paste all day long, but not into the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenni Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 On the row with the Font and size, at the right, are a couple of clip boards to allow paste. Mouse over to see what each does. I was able to paste just fine. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon M Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Carmen, you are not the only one who has this problem... I used to be able to copy/paste from outside the forum, but for months now I cannot....no matter what I do. Have tried everything you mentioned with the copy/paste icons, too. Are there some settings we don't know about?? Hope someone can help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Mary, tried all of the past icons. I do not have Word so that is not an option for me. I used the 'More Reply Options' button and tried to paste in the window that it opened, but it still would not work. Sharon, I used to be able to paste but the function has not worked for me for months and I believe I have seen others post that they could not paste some info they had intended to post. Someone, H-E-L-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oma Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 When that happens to me I have to go to the icon in the left corner above the "Bold" icon and click on it then I can paste a URL or other things I can't do when it is on regular. I think it changes it to Full Editor or something. The writing will look different. Try that and see if it works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Thank you, Oma!!! It works! I can type and then select the icon above the Bold icon, paste, and then select the icon again to return to the regular reply window. The icon is also available in a PM so it will work there, too. Happy day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oma Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 It's sort of a "work around", but it works for me so that's the way I've been doing it. I'm glad you got it to work for you too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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