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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I want my PRIMARY SELECTION back
I've been using the primary selection since I installed my very first Linux on a Computer in 1994.
It's so simple: Select text, change window, middle-click, happy
With the latest updates - it ...
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Copy-Paste text area in GIMP
I'm trying to copy-paste a text area into the same image to duplicate it. I don't really mind if it gets pasted into the same layer or another one.
I select the text area, then Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+V.
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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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Copy folders and keep their modified date
I want to copy a couple of folders and preserve their modified date for historic reasons and not to change the sorting I'm used to.
I have tried using rsync with flags to preserve times and the ...
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How to paste password to login screen in Hyper-V VM
I use Hyper-V in my Windows 10 and need to be able to paste passwords into login screens (I use password manager to generate and store strong passwords.)
The login screen ignores Ctrl-V and context ...
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Clipboard: copy paste to/from multiple buffers
I would like to copy and paste using multiple buffers.
E.g. ctr+c+$n copies to a buffer$n, then ctr+v+$n pastes the content from the buffer$n where $n is a number on the keyboard from 0 to 9. Is there ...
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Windows 10's SSH Client can't paste tilde and backtick
I'd like to use Windows 10's SSH Client so I don't have to install other programs to ssh but it is impossible for me to paste the tilde character (~) and the backtick (`), they are just ignored.
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Why I am I getting this output from copy dialog box?
I was copying my old Windows files to a new partition for unnamed reasons and then the copy dialog box gave me this screen :
I had 0 items remaining but 45 seconds and 1.83GB left to copy.
After a ...
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Is there a way I can be notified when Windows Explorer is done copying / moving a file?
Obviously, this is a very common operation, but I'm annoyed that Windows will not tell me when it is done. I either need to see if the copy / move progress bar still exists, or (worse) look to see if ...
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How to disable text style copying on Windows XP?
Problem: I copy a text from a website, paste it on email or forum, and scream for the insanely large font it creates. Then I instantly go to notepad and re-paste, re-copy and again re-paste it to get ...
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Is there a paste-replace shortcut?
Hello all :) This is be a petty request, but it is like an itch to me right now for a specific project:
There are shorcuts for copy and paste, but I often find myself moving bits of text between each ...
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Single Kanji alters when pasted from Illustrator to VS Code
I am encountering an unusual issue while working with Japanese Kanji characters. I use Adobe Illustrator for some of my tasks, and often need to copy text from Illustrator and paste it into Visual ...
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Remmina Copy-Paste issue
I utilize the Remmina software in order to connect through the XRDP service in a remote Ubuntu server. However, I cannot use the copy-paste functions to copy information from the remote machine to my ...
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Missing Paste (P) option in Excel 2016
I'm copying some data from a webpage which is tabulated. When I click Ctrl+C in Excel 2010 and Ctrl+V to paste, it pastes correctly.
However, in Excel 2016, the Paste (P) option is not there.
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Copy/paste not working while VNC Viewer is connected to a PC
My copy/paste function stop working when I connect to a pc using VNC Viewer. This is throughout my own pc that it stops working and not just to the remote PC. Work again right after VNC is closed.
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