Questions tagged [copy-paste]
Adding an item to the clipboard to then place at a different position either in a document or location
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Copy and paste twice
Is there a way, to copy and paste twice? For example, is there a way, for me to copy one url, store it, and then copy another url, and then for the urls to be pasted respectively?
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How to disable “marching ants” from overriding my external clipboard data in Excel 2016?
Did the copy-and-paste behavior change in Excel 2016?
Every time I want to copy something from an external application, I have to press Esc first in Excel 2016 to cancel the marching ants (selection ...
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VMWare Workstation: host to guest pasting stopped working after host Ubuntu upgrade to 22.04
VMWare Workstation: 17.01
Guest OS: Windows 10.
After upgrading host Ubuntu 20.04 => 22.04, VMWare Workstation copy/paste function is broken.
Host => Guest: Copy/Cut text: unable to paste in ...
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"Let me decide for each file" appears to be broken after Windows 11 updates to 24H2/25H2. Can anyone advise on a possible workaround using terminal?
I had Windows updates on hold for a few weeks after the possible issues with SSDs arose with KB5063878. I started them again on 15th October (oldest first):
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Chinese characters sometimes turned to question marks when copied to Windows clipboard, why?
Sometimes, when I copy and paste a piece of text, the Chinese characters in the text would become question marks (I believe they are not garbled, but actual question marks).
I believe this has nothing ...
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Cut/Copy + Paste network files in Windows Explorer periodically stops working
On Windows 7 and 8 I have a periodic problem where cut (or copy - from here on I will just say "copy")/paste operations fail. The copy process actually doesn't even initiate. Here's what I mean:
If ...
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When I copy and paste a link, it replaces it with random characters
Copied link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_microsoft
Pasted link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LdcxhrrmCTdLqs67V5Ps5omaHbbapv5as2y_microsoft
My win 10 replace an ...
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How to copy the content of a CD file with executables to a hard drive?
I have a CD with medical results. The CD has two EXE files. One is used to launch and visualize the content. The second is used to visualize some images and maybe is called from the other. The images ...
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Maintaining word order when copying Hebrew from and SE site to MS Word
When I try to copy text from Mi Yodeya (the Judaism SE site, which I usually render in Chrome) into a MS Word document (using Word 2007 on Windows 7), e.g. this one, I find that Hebrew text comes ...
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Copying part of an image in GIMP
Using GIMP on Mac OS X (10.9.4), copying part of an image using the select tool ends up copying the whole image instead.
I've selected the part of the image I want to copy with the Rectangle Select ...
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How can I paste without formatting but while keeping links on Windows?
I frequently copy links from web pages in Chrome to paste into emails (e.g. gmail.com in Chrome) I’m composing on Windows 11 (24H2 Pro). After pasting, I often need to manually update the email ...
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Paste Image Data from Clipboard to Chrome
Is it possible to paste image data into Chrome to then view the image?
For example, I right click on an image on a webpage then click "Copy image."
With the image data on my clipboard, how ...
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How to copy FAR file manager's output
Hi guys, how do I copy FAR-Manager's console output? For example when I use ping command I want to copy it's output text, but not image.
Oh, and I would like to do so with keyboard! :)
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Microsoft Word Crashes when Copying and Pasting
I've got the newest version of Microsoft Word.
This problem has been going on for about a year, but sometimes when I try to copy a lot of text from word, it'll crash the document, and I'll have to ...
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Why is my pasted text being marked as a different language?
I have an MS Word 2016 document. I can do CTRL+A to select all, and in the Review ribbon -> Language group, choose Language -> Set Proofing Language and "Mark selected text as" ...
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