I do wish we could copy or quote from here.....

[beryllium]

Without having to send the whole blumin page when someone posts up whatever may be of interest to that reader.

I am aware that enigma has asked some time last year for a quote button for on here.

Now, I think I read somewhere that once an answer/or writing is placed with Answerbank, that Answerbank owns the rights.

Is that why we cant copy straight from these pages? if we wanted to send it to an outside audience.....

Hope that makes sense lol..... B. xxx

[bednobs]

Now, I think I read somewhere that once an answer/or writing is placed with Answerbank,

thats weird - i copied and pasted that from your question - it seems i can do it!


Now, I think I read somewhere that once an answer/or writing is placed with Answerbank, that Answerbank owns the rights.

Is that why we cant copy straight from these pages? if we wanted to send it to an outside audience.....

copied and pasted too

[bednobs]

copied and pasted an answer too
Now, I think I read somewhere that once an answer/or writing is placed with Answerbank,

thats weird - i copied and pasted that from your question - it seems i can do it!


Now, I think I read somewhere that once an answer/or writing is placed with Answerbank, that Answerbank owns the rights.

Is that why we cant copy straight from these pages? if we wanted to send it to an outside audience.....

copied and pasted too

[B00]

Hi Beryl- hope you're well :-)

It is possible to cut and paste from the Old AB. I'm not sure if there's an easier way but this is how I do it.

1- Left click 3 times at end of whatever it is you want copying, and it will highlight blue.

2- press ctrl c on your keyboard.

3- Then all you need to do is ctrl v in your answer box.

If you need to tweak whatever it is you've copied, i find that the easiest way is to dump the text into notepad 1st, tweak, then copy that into AB.

Did any of that make sense?

[bednobs]

that is so odd ... i dont even have to go through that malarkey, i just copy and paste in the normal way, no teaking required. Are you sure you're not just assuming you cant do it? have you tried?

[beryllium]

ah, Thanks B00 :-) I knew about ctrl c and ctrl v but was just trying the usual drag and highlight and it wasn't happening lol.....

Do Answerbank own the rights once it's on here?

Thanks again Hon :-) xxx

[B00]

the normal method of copy and pasting doesnt work for me either bednobs, it's as beryl has already said, it copies the entire page, so I do the long winded approach- lol.

[B00]

And im sure "teaking" is against the site policies ;-)

[bednobs]

i wonder why i can do it then? perhaps i shouldnt have said it out loud? they might take my copy/paste facilities away from me?

[kempie]

Simple selection of text works 'normally' in Firefox but for some reason is more restrictive when using IE as your browser, requiring a number of clicks for various levels of selection.

[ruby27]

beryllium
Is that why we cant copy straight from these pages? if we wanted to

I have done it as well, the normal cut and paste - I do not understand this bit about firefox etc as a browser - my set up is what I got when I signed on, sorry so can not offer any suggestions.

[THECORBYLOON]

In the Terms of Use it says,

"4. You may print or download to disk the contents of an individual page of this Website for the purpose of private and personal non-commercial use only. You may also permit your computer to make an electronically stored, transient copy of the content in this Website for the purpose of viewing it while connected to the Internet only. However, you may only make one copy of any of the contents.

5. Other than printing or downloading (as set out in the paragraph above), you agree that the contents of this Website may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form without our prior express written permission. This includes "caching" or "mirroring" any of the site's contents."

(the emphasis is mine)

[joko]

click (or tap if a laptop) 3 times on the text you want to hightlight

twice for one word, 3 for whole block.

[beryllium]

lol... ok got the clicking.... thanks to B00.
Thanks TCL for the pointers.
This site is remarkably similar to another site I use, but that was founded 1996. So that must be where I saw the ownership of the writing. But that site pays. It's American btw.

Now, what I was asking for on here was a Quote button.

Not terribly technical either.

Thanks for the re-iterations lol

Joko.... hope your colleague is feeling well. :-) xxx

[jno]

ruby, your computer probably has Internet Explorer as a browser - approximately 1,300% of all computers do, thanks to the power of Bill Gates. It's just the software that enables you to browse the internet. But you can always install Firefox as an alternative; it's free and many people swear by it (I haven't got it myself). There are also others available. Find it here:

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/fire fox/