I need to copy text between a commercial text editor (TextPad 6.1.3 by Helios) and a home brew program used by my company. When I try to do this now, the highlighted text is moved/cut rather than copied. Is there a Windows 7 or TextPad setting I can use to force the behavior to copy rather than cut the text?
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posted by moxiequz
on Feb 7, 2013 -
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How do I get a fair size (100+ messages) corpus of first-contact messages on dating sites?
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posted by curuinor
on Jan 25, 2013 -
9 answers
Please help me track down an article (or documentation) about an OS9 Mac setup regime that was heavily text-based, emphasizing how to set up a Mac with keyboard macros, desktop-accessible text snippets and very specific keyboard macros.
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posted by mph
on Dec 13, 2012 -
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Creating an index of first lines, from a group of many poems, each stored in a seperate .txt file. Are there any applications or scripts that would help me to do that?
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posted by dylan_k
on Dec 8, 2012 -
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What should I do about this guy? I'll preface this by saying I have pretty much no prior experience, so I'm not sure about what's considered "normal" in terms of communication (FYI this is a little long)...
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posted by Sakura3210
on Oct 26, 2012 -
28 answers
After restarting Windows 7 (SP 1) today, my chosen Small text setting (100% at 100 dpi on a 1920 x 1200 resolution) had been replaced by Medium (125%). Text everywhere looked huge. I switched back to Small, but now a lot of my system text (like
title bar text and
context menu text ) is extremely small, much smaller than before, and some other text, like the listing of subject headings in my Thunderbird email client and the tab text in Firefox, is also incredibly small. How to get back to my original Small appearance?
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posted by maudlin
on Oct 23, 2012 -
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I would like to create a font using someone's handwriting and am looking for a good software with which to do this. I'm not an expert in this, so it would have to have a small learning curve, unless it is really worth it for me to spend time learning so I can get reasonable results.
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posted by sciencegeek
on Oct 19, 2012 -
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When I copy/paste text from this PDF, the copied text is repeated and sometimes includes additional text. Why is this and how can I fix it?
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posted by fussbudget
on Aug 10, 2012 -
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I need to go through text files, each containing hundreds of lines, and copy a specific part of each line, and then add all those parts together into one long line, each part separated by a comma. But how?
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posted by Unhyper
on May 9, 2012 -
13 answers
I want to create a number to send text messages (SMS) which will then post all the messages onto a Twitter feed...
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posted by iamck
on Apr 18, 2012 -
3 answers
What are the mysterious, apparently non-sensical, religious-sounding words that are appearing as small white text on white background on Craigslist car+truck ads across several cities?
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posted by Extopalopaketle
on Oct 10, 2011 -
3 answers
On a Win7 desktop, how can I open and read a 1.61 GB CSV file containing text (kind of an archive of e-mails) without freezing up the system?
posted by vidur
on Sep 1, 2011 -
12 answers
I'm trying to find a Twilight-related blog that I remember seeing recently. The blogger cut all the pages out of a copy of
Twilight, scanned or photographed them, and rearranged snippets of text to highlight and criticize odd or repetitive choices of language.
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posted by Orinda
on Apr 23, 2011 -
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For a three month dating "anniversary" I'd like to create a bound book of all the text messages my girlfriend and I have sent back and forth.
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posted by talkingmuffin
on Mar 3, 2011 -
10 answers
Is there an equivalent plugin for Chrome that duplicates
It's All Text for Firefox? I use a browser a lot to enter complicated text into things like wikis and I need a full featured text editor for Chrome. I currently use It's All Text which lets me use vim to do everything that vim can do to the text in a text box but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for Chrome.
posted by octothorpe
on Feb 24, 2011 -
4 answers
Need to somehow retrieve SMS text messages from old, low-end Nokia 2610 cellphone. Please, someone save me from hours of mind-numbing thumbery. Details, including things I've tried, follow.
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posted by Alaska Jack
on Feb 17, 2011 -
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A friend, sent me a text that she in a work "retreat" all day it is really dulll and painfully boring. Please help me think of clever texts to send that are witty and will crack a smile.
posted by jennstra
on Jan 29, 2011 -
9 answers
I use
Anki as a flashcard program to learn languages. I have an
XML file of an open source English-Swedish dictionary. I'd like to turn this file into a text file that Anki can
import.
I know nothing about XML files (I don't even quite know what to open it with. OSX tries to use Adobe Illustrator, but surely that can't be right?). Is there any way to do this more or less easily?
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posted by snoogles
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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Possibly a waste of a question but can you recover lost text in Word before it saved?
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posted by tweedle
on Dec 1, 2010 -
5 answers
Trying to find a text generator I saw a while back. It was called a Cthulhu text generator, but it really had nothing to do with him. It would accept key words/phrases, then arrange them in an overlapping criss-cross pattern using only CSS.
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posted by AltReality
on Oct 4, 2010 -
3 answers
Videos like the new
Cee Lo video, where the text appears on the screen as the words are spoken - what's that style called?
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posted by Lucinda
on Aug 27, 2010 -
19 answers
Can I change the mouseover qualities (the way mouseover/hover text is displayed) with CSS?
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posted by Tchad
on Aug 20, 2010 -
6 answers
I'll shortly be teaching a unit of work to senior high school students titled "Navigating the Global". I'm after short stories, preferably available for free online, that deal with the themes of global vs local culture.
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posted by robotot
on Jul 1, 2010 -
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I am looking for an artistic way to present a recipe that my spouse and I use pretty regularly. I would like to create (or, more likely, commission) an artistic representation of the recipe suitable for framing.
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posted by Xalf
on May 19, 2010 -
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Do these Spanish text messages I'm getting (which I have crudely translated for you) sound like a spammer fishing for valid numbers, or does it sound like a lovesick teen who has just gotten the wrong number? I want to tell them they've got the wrong number so they'll stop, but don't want to respond if it's a spammer. Language barrier and inexperience with text spam leave me unsure.
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posted by Askr
on May 3, 2010 -
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I need a tool to auto-format text according to my rules, such as 2 spaces between every sentence.
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posted by dvrcthewrld
on Apr 29, 2010 -
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I have: An excel spreadsheet with a bunch of emails. I need: A self-updating text string that can be copy-pasted into an email TO: Field. I know about C1&","&D1 but is there a way for the list to be automatically updated when I or subtract an email, without specifically having to tell the formula to look in the newly added row?
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posted by amethysts
on Mar 23, 2010 -
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I'd like an ApplesScript that will let me increase or decrease the quote level of text that I've selected (like using ⌘' and ⌥⌘' in Mail).
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posted by davextreme
on Jan 21, 2010 -
4 answers
I need some help repairing some text files. I don't really understand regular expressions and so on enough.
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posted by yesno
on Nov 2, 2009 -
14 answers
DonatingTextbooksInAustraliaFilter: How would I go about donating a heap of recent secondary school textbooks to worthy causes. I'm in Melbourne, Australia.
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posted by micklaw
on Aug 25, 2009 -
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Web filter filter: I seem to remember a link to an NYT article that just contained the full text of the article in nice big letters, with no graphics, banners, or ads. It was fully attributed, with links to the original, but it was much more pleasant to read, especially for a long article. Is there a website that will filter out the clutter and provide links that can be forwarded?
posted by jpg15
on Jul 1, 2009 -
6 answers
My boyfriend Skype-IMed his mother a very dirty greeting that was meant for me. It still shows the circling icon that I think happens when you try to send a user a message when the user does not have Skype running at the time. Is there any way to delete this before she gets it? He's freaking out, as you would too, if I told you what he just told his mother.
posted by anthropomorphic
on Jun 30, 2009 -
12 answers
[MomFilter] Looking for a reasonably cheap, reliable printer (for printing text) for an iMac. Leaning towards laser as the experiences with inkjets have been that bouts of little use lead to still full, yet dry and thus worthless ink cartridges.
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posted by blueberry
on Jun 21, 2009 -
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PrepaidCellFilter: Two questions about prepaid cell plans:
1. Can I use a phone I buy off eBay with one of these plans, or is it essential to use the phones provided by the carrier?
2. If I'm mostly interested in texting, which prepaid cell provider would be the best for me?
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posted by reenum
on May 21, 2009 -
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I'm giving a big presentation in a couple of weeks and it has to be impressive. I have a fabulous idea for a graphic, inspired by the facebook
friend wheel, where I want to
wrap perhaps 100 words around a circle and draw lines to connect them in illustrative ways. The drawing lines part is easy, but the wrapping text around a circle part is hard (without doing it one element at a time, rotating and aligning each one just so). I *know* there's an easy way to do this, but am not quite smart enough to figure it out in omnigraffle or find another program that can do it. I can use Mac or PC. If you point me to a workable solution, you'll get your name in lights (if you wish) in addition to my unending gratitude.
posted by ezola
on Apr 21, 2009 -
12 answers
Back in the 80's I played a text based college basketball game on the PC. Anyone remember it?
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posted by unceman
on Mar 17, 2009 -
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I have hundreds of text strings entered through a form in a Google Spreadsheets which look like
4*3 9*2 17*3 22 37*4 52. I can easily substitute " " for "+" and concatenate a "=" in front
=4*3+9*2+17*3+22+37*4+52. Now I have a text string which looks like a formula but isn't one.
How can I make Google Spreadsheets interpret this string as a formula?
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posted by Akeem
on Mar 12, 2009 -
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I did a dumb thing. I put together a book list in this format:
first-name last-name (tab) book-title
Note that there *isn't* a comma between the author's first and last name.
Is there any "computer magic" I can perform to change it to this format:
last-name first-name (tab) book-title
The list is just in text format, for what it's worth. I'm on a Mac but also have access to a PC. I'd rather not have to cut-n-paste the last names, it's a pretty long list.
posted by edjusted
on Feb 17, 2009 -
16 answers
I'm writing a shell script to take a webpage and convert it into a text file. I'd appreciate tips as to how to store URLs, save the file with the URL's title as its name, and also just general tips as to how to improve the script and/or achieve the process better. Specific questions inside.
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posted by WCityMike
on Jan 30, 2009 -
17 answers
What color text on what color background maximizes screen readability while minimizing eyestrain?
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posted by Joe Beese
on Jan 19, 2009 -
19 answers
