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Unable to copy from Linux server to Mac client after 1.4.5 install
I installed version Synergy 1.4.5 on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) client, as part of a test to solve a much more complicated Synergy problem.
I now find:
* I can copy on the Mac and paste into Linux
* I can ...
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Word 2000 keyboard shortcuts changed globally. ctrl-c, ctrl-v changed to ctrl-insert, shift-insert
Somehow on my wife computer the default Microsoft keyboard shortcut scheme was changed into some "legacy scheme".
This is the 2nd time she managed to do it and the last time I was only able to resolve ...
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What software can I use to give my computer multiple copy and paste shortcuts?
I would like to have the ability to copy multiple items with different shortcuts, and have different past shortcuts, each linked to one of the copy shortcuts. For example, pressing ctrl+v would paste ...
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unable to copy and paste images and urls [closed]
All of a sudden I am unable to copy and paste stock photos and urls... text seems to still work... it doesn't give me the paste option. It just started doing this last week out of the blue. please ...
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How do you copy+paste text from the terminal to a web browser, and vice versa?
I was just wondering if there's a simple way to do this, or whether it's completely dependent on the terminal you use. If that's the case, then is there a standard that most terminals go by?
Right ...
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Vim: Terminal-to-terminal copy&paste?
I am trying to copy a large block of code (with indentations preserved) from one vim terminal into another. I was wondering if there was a straightforward way to do this?
Would this be considered a ...
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How can I copy tables between word documents without having the format change?
I have two both word 2007 documents, A and B.
I want to copy a table from A to B, and that table's format is totally the same as I see in A, not automatically changing the format to B's template ...
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How to tell app to convert files per subdirectory?
I have a question similar to this one : Copy directory structure without copying files, on Mac OS X
Assuming a similarly annoying directory structure (A/B/C/file.end), i want to feed that into a ...
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Pasting HTML table into Excel 2007 without modifying the format of each cell
I have a table in HTML having cells storing numbers like 123.0,123.00. When I use ctrl-A to copy the whole page into excel, 123.0 and 123.00 are all changed to 123, which is not something I want to ...
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Debian based OS: Show system notification on clipboard copy/paste events
When working with Linux (Debian based), I often experience problems in relation to the copy paste commands: I copy something with Ctrl+C or by selecting it with the mouse, but when I try to paste it ...
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Copying Chinese Characters from PDF
I am on a Windows 7 laptop, which I believe comes preinstalled with all the language packs. I can see Chinese characters with no issues and normally can copy them fine. (From browser to Microsoft ...
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Copy paste an image from pdf file while maintaining transparency [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to maintain image transparency when copying from the browser
I have a pdf document and when I try to copy-paste an image from it with the Selection Tool, the ...
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copy between word and outlook does not work
Office 2007 plus installed on machine. Copy link appears in both word and outlook. You can copy text then past it, it just does not paste anything. The past works in Notepad or Excel so it is in the ...
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Cut/Copy/Paste function vanishes
Okay, this is now a multiple-repeat problem. All functionality of copy/cut - paste is essentially gone. It will hit-and-miss with a proper copy-paste, but not normally.
I'm trying this through both ...
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copy and paste plain (unformatted) text [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I cut-and-paste an email, so that paste will be in pure text (stripping all html)
Recommendations for utility to paste plain text?
one of my pet peeves is ...
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copy and paste tabs between terminal windows in X11
When I copy and paste text using the X11 mouse selection between two terminal windows, tabs are often, but not always, converted to spaces. This appears to depend on the involved terminal ...
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Avoiding newlines when copying wrapped text in Terminal.app
I have text files with lines that of length greater than my terminal width. I generally use less to view these files and often want to copy something that wraps from one line to the next.
I've found ...
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How can I prevent or interrupt accidental copy/paste in the terminal?
When I paste into the terminal, sometimes what is in the clipboard is not what I expected. Specifically, it is sometimes pages and pages of text from a website.
When this happens, the terminal goes ...
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How to copy & paste from a cell in Libre Office Calc
I have an Excel format spreadsheet that was sent to me by a colleague. It's a list of test usernames for an app we're building.
When I try to copy one of the usernames or passwords from the cell in ...
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How do I copy slides into an existing PowerPoint 2007 presentation without copying any master slides?
I have users who frequently copy and paste between presentations to create new ones. We have a corporate template with a set of slide masters, and when he copies the slides it also copies in the ...
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Putty-like copy & paste for Linux
This is a duplicate of Mac Terminal Copy on select like Putty but I would like a solution for Linux.
So basically, (how) can I set the selected text to be copied and pasted on right click?
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Can't copy paste on the first try
When I try to copy and paste something from firefox to say notepad or word, it doesn't work on the first try. That is I go to firefox, select text, right click, select copy, then switch to notepad, ...
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copy worksheet to several workbook
I created a worksheet/spreadsheet with functions and references to cells in other worksheets/spreadsheets within same workbook to create a report of other worksheets within the same workbook.
I have ...
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Why can't I paste from clipboard to OS X Terminal.app when it contains special characters?
For instance, if I have one or more of the following characters copied into clipboard, a paste into the terminal window will not work:
“ ” ’ –
This is pretty annoying, actually, one would think ...
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cut and paste filename with spaces into a command
when i type ls or locate as an output i get "a file.txt" (there is a space between "a" and "file.txt".
i highlight it with a mouse and than paste it with a middle button.
now i have to put \ after ...
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What does Ctrl+C do in Ubuntu Terminal?
Does anyone know what Ctrl+C and Ctrl-V do in Ubuntu Terminal? Since they don't copy/paste, is there any particular functionality to these buttons?
When I press those shortcut, it writes ^C and ^V.
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Copy Word 2010 outline view to new document
I am writing a lengthy article in Word 2010 and want to share an outline of what I have completed thusfar with a colleague. Because I have carefully applied heading 1, 2, etc. styles I can switch to ...
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Can't copy/paste to/from system clipboard in Terminal on Mac
I can't copy or paste to or from the system clipboard within the Terminal. Neither Cmd-C/Cmd-V nor menus work. Instead, Terminal seems to be using it's own buffer for copy/paste operations. I am ...
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How to copy multi-line text from Excel without quotes?
When you create a multi-line string in an excel cell (by using Alt-Enter), if you copy that cell to a text editor, excel will automatically add double quotes (") around the full string, ie:
Cell1 | ...
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How do I tell the computer not to copy unimportant information in Wikipedia?
How can I tell the computer not to copy unimportant information ?
For example if I go to this page and copy the first paragraph, I'd get:
Sentence spacing is the horizontal space between ...
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How do I replace-paste yanked text in vim without yanking the deleted lines?
So I usually find myself copying text from one point to another while overwriting old text where the new is pasted:
blah1
newtext
blah2
wrong1
blah3
wrong2
blah4
Suppose I visual-mark newtext and ...
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copy from buggy application
I have an old windows application, which dumps some log-messages in a read-only edit-control.
Due to some weird restriction or a bug, The edit-control does not have a drop-down menu, and the default ...
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Word is ignoring my 'Match Destination Formatting' preference when pasting text
I'm stuck using word 2007 at the office. It has options for retaining formatting, pasting as plain text, and pasting text to match the destination's formatting. That last option is the one I want, but ...
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My computer hangs on Copy & Paste
My machine hangs for about 7 seconds before pasting the data, even if the data was very small. It doesn't happen all the time though.
My environment:
Windows Server 2003
working a lot with remote ...
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Cannot copy/paste to Windows 7 after an amount of time
A user on my network (after some hours of work) is unable to use copy/paste on their Windows 7 machine, either with right clicking or with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. The system is fairly new, so malware problems ...
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How to copy and paste content from PostGIS psql console in Windows 7?
I just get started with POSTGIS and I am digging through Mannig's POSTGIS in Action. I am using Windows 7, POSTGIS 1.5 and Postgresql 9.
Sadly, I am not able to copy and paste anything from my text ...
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Selecting text in a SuSE shell
I have a problem. An application has spat a whole load of log text into a Shell window that needs to be captured. If we could skip passed the "probably shouldn't have had an application output it's ...
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Copying Devanagari on OS X
I am working with several files in various formats (PDF, HTML, DOCX) that contain Devanagari (Indian) script.
When I try to copy text using either CMD+C or the right-click menu, it is transformed ...
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Copy entire file system hierarchy from one drive to another
I would like to copy the entire file system hierarchy from one drive to another..i.e contents of each directory as well as regular files in Linux platform. Would be gratefull to know the best way to ...
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Where are the Linux paste buffers managed
On standard Linux setups you have two general paste buffers, the main copy(^C)/paste(^V) one and the select-text/middle-click one.
For both of these buffers:
At what level in the environment are ...
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UNIX - How to copy and paste between different bash windows with files opend with VI?
Lets say I log in to bash, open a file in vi, then using alt-f2 I open a new terminal. After logging in I navigate to a second file and open that in vi. How can I CnP between these two files?
I found ...
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select copy and paste in terminal mac or ubuntu without using mouse
Is there a way to move the cursor up into text output region, visually select text, copy and paste it, all without using the mouse.
I guess this is my scenario:
I would do a "find . -iname ...
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Pasting single row data into merged cells
I'm using Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 14.1.0 (on Mac OS X 10.6.7.).
What I'm looking to do, is paste a column of single row data into a column with cells that are 3 rows high each. I want each data ...
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Windows 7 - Copy and Replace Always
I want to do a Copy and Replace (an overwrite) always when I am copying files from one folder to another. Is there anyway, anyway at all that I can ensure that the prompt does not appear saying "Are ...
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Text in web page becomes encrypted when copied and pasted
When I try to copy and paste the text in the following web page to Notepad, the text becomes encrypted.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/17887201.asp?yazarid=249
How does this happen? What ...
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Vim: yank highlighted text
I have a pattern highlighted and I want to copy all the text highlighted and paste it into another buffer. How can I do that?
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Running javascript through terminal
I want to copy highlighted text from a certain site into an output folder on my Desktop. I know there are scripts that can copy highlighted text via JavaScript but I've only seen them for copying ...
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Paste to Excel from clipboard (plain text) : Can I make certain cells to be formatted “as such”
when preparing table data as text to be copied to Excel through clipboard, is it possible to have certain cells unformatted? (If possible, without changing Excel settings or doing a special paste).
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Can't copy/paste because of ending some processes
I accidently ended some processes in Task Manager (some svchost.exe I guess), now I can't copy/paste. How to fix it?
Windows XP SP3
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Microsoft Word 2007 problem with copying tables/text/graphics from webpage
I have a web page with multiple nested tables (due to a complex database system).
I need to make a document comparing the "old" web page of the same product to the "new" web page. I copied and pasted ...
