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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VBA to copy and paste Range Values is too slow
I'm using this code and it works just fine but it runs very slow.
Does someone has a different approach for this?
Sub CopyPaste()
Dim sourcerange As Workbook
Dim currentrange As Workbook
Dim r As ...
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Increase the number of lines that can be pasted in PuTTY
I use R and recently started working with a Linux server for my job. We are using PuTTY to communicate with the server. With our current workflow, we write scripts in RStudio on our local computers/...
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Back-up automatically through LAN shared
I have 11 Pc share through LAN (Back-up folder which be create by date vise) that 11pc back-up folder will be back-up in another PC through LAN.
Everyday I need to delete old folder(pervious folder) ...
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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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Can't copy/paste in Word: "Word has encountered a probIem"
Word won't let me copy/paste.
When I try to copy, Word at least looks like it's copying. When I select text and hit Ctrl+C, the Paste button lights up in the ribbon. When I select text and hit Ctrl+X, ...
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Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying
Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying a selection:
I don't know why it happens. I use murgee maybe it causes this problem?
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With Microsoft Edge, how to copy bullet list from one WebPage to another ? why does Paste of Bullet List contain invalid HTML?
I need help to copy selected text (from from Microsoft Community Website) which is a bullet list to another for posting;
With Edge, copying bullets incurs invalid HTML information
Edge App - copy ...
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Couldn't copy paste text from local computer(win 11) to AVD through Remote Desktop App
I couldn't copy paste text from local computer(windows 11) to AVD (Azure virtual Desktop) through Remote Desktop App. Copy paste works in both AVD & local computer, if i use RD web client.
All ...
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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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Copy and preserve formatting when copy pasting from WhatsApp web to any editor
I have WhatsApp open in a browser using WhatsApp web. There are messages that I receive that have formatting included, say bolding of a few words, italics, underlines etc. Now I want to copy the ...
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Copy files with specific names into different folders
I need to copy many files into different folders.
My files look like this:
aaa_280_, aaa_281_, aaa_282_
They are all in one source folder.
The destination folders look like this:
xy_280, xy_281, ...
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Can't remove hidden characters?
I'm trying to make a simple tool for my job where I can decline job listings for a specific reason simply by checking their boxes and then copying and pasting the final cell where it will compile all ...
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Paste rich text from Google Docs into Thunderbird. How to change the Image handling?
I'm preparing a quotation for a client. I'm doing it on a Google Docs using rich text (colors, bold, list-items, images, etc.) to later copy-paste it into an email composed in Mozilla Thunderbird.
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how to copy file/folder and preserve their creation date on windows 10
When I ran out of storage I brought a new Hard disk and of course I needed to copy all my data from my old hard disk to the new one.
when I tried to manage the copied files over the new hard disk I ...
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How to copy/duplicate a folder on a Network Share
Edit: Well, I don't know what changed, but it is now working as I expect. Not very helpful, sorry.
In Windows Explorer, when I Select a network shared folder and try to duplicate it using copy/paste, ...
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Automate copying new file in specific folder to clipboard
I'm using a macOS app to create GIFs (called GifFox) but the app does not offer a feature to auto-save to clipboard. However, I can define the location the GIF will be saved to. How can I create an ...
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CTRL+V sometimes adds the number 8 to pasted text or just pastes the number 8
In my Windows 10 laptop, I have this weird intermittent behavior while pasting text using CTRL+V.
It sometimes adds the number 8 to the pasted text or just pastes the number 8.
For e.g. if I copy/cut ...
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Can't copy the letters "ti" in a .pdf if in Calibri 12pt and made using Print>save to PDF
When I save a document as a .pdf via Print>save to PDF, every single instance of the letters "ti" in 12pt Calibri in the .pdf will no longer be copied once the document reaches a ...
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File Explorer Crash When Copy/Move Files Windows 11
First of all, I already knew the issue, and already "googling" & did multiple possible solutions to fix File Explorer Crash When Copy/Move Files. But unfortunately, the issue still not ...
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Microsoft Teams copy/paste exact highlighted text? Do not include message metadata
Microsoft Teams injects a bunch of annoying text when you try to copy/paste a highlighted message.
as you can see, I've highlighted the message text. I then copy/paste using the standard Mac keyboard ...
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For an app with broken clipboard behavior, can I route the paste buffer as though it were coming from the keyboard in macOS Monterey?
I have a remote connection to a VM that is a bit of a problem.
If I want to paste text into the remote machine, I'm just boned - the software that is hosting the connection is passing the Command+V (...
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How to copy paste e-mail or passwords on a website, which prevents this?
Some (in my opinion badly designed) websites, prevent you copy paste your password or e-mail into "repeat" fields. In my opinion this is an idiotic design making user experience horrible. ...
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I'm trying to review file copies and movement on a system
I'm looking to find a way to review either in real time or through history Windows explorer file movements on a Windows 10, 11 or server 2019 OS. I've been googling for a bit and I've only found Index....
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Stop Chrome from prepending protocol to IP addresses in address bar
This seems like a simple question to me, but I can't find the question asked anywhere, let alone the answer.
How can I stop Chrome from automaticaly prepending http:// whenever I copy an IP address (...
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Libre Office Calc paste as column
I want copy data from clipboard to column on Libre Office Calc
This is my data example
48032, 50201/C, 50286, 50285, 50254, 50253, 50252, 50251, 50250, 50248, 50206/C, 50204/C, >50202/C, 50201/C, ...
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How to copy individual non adjacent cells and disable copy (in between cells) to windows clipboard [duplicate]
I have a range of cells e.g (“A1:A6”) , then I have used CTRL to copy only cells “A1” and “A6” .
If I opened another file e.g (notepad) ,then paste , I found out that all the values of range (“A1:A6”) ...
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Copy / Paste UI missing, moving really slow - windows 10
having a really strange issue with my laptop. When I try to copy files in Windows explorer either using the context menu or CTRL+C and paste them, I do not get the standard UI for copy / paste. ...
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Pasting Copied image in Microsoft Word as Picture reduces its resolution
Whenever I try to copy an image in my Word document and paste it elsewhere in the Word document, if I chose paste option as Picture (U), the pasted image's resolution gets lowered.
Can it be prevented ...
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Can't copy and paste between Linux host and vSphere Windows guest
Linux host: Archlinux
Windows guest: Win10 with vmware-tools, copy & paste option of Windows guest are enabled
I've tried VMRC and Workstation Pro, copy and paste only work in Gnome(X11), both ...
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Is there a way to completely disregard errors when copying files? [duplicate]
I am trying to copy an old drive onto something newer so I can more easily access files, but the problem is a considerable portion of the files result in CRC errors, this wouldn't be a problem if I ...
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Cannot copy files on another user account on Windows 11
We have 3 users on our Windows 11 PC.
Main account (Administrator)
Second account (Administrator)
Third account (Standard user)
The main account is working just fine, but the second and third cannot ...
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How to `Ctrl+C` copy to the system clipboard using vscodevim extension in vscode/codium without using the `v` mode's system clipboard register `"*y`?
I have already changed the Ctrl+Shift+C keybinding so that I do not enter a terminal when I press it, see Keybinding Ctrl + Shift + C opens a new external terminal in vscode/codium on Linux, how to ...
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Avoid Excel to chop off the last digits of my numbers
As indicated in this URL, the largest number Excel can handle is about 10^307.
Nevertheless, Excel seems to have problems with smaller numbers too (about 10^17) as you can see from my example:
I'm ...
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Assign Different Pastes to Key Combinations
I have three different pastes to insert into a document.
Ctrl+v works for one of them.
But I need to assign a key combination for the other two pastes, without clearing the clipboard paste buffer.
The ...
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win 10 copy folder with symlinks
I have a folder with lots of nested folders and files, as usual how typical folders go. While I'm having trouble copying the folder (the progress simply freezes until explorer is killed/restarted), I ...
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How to copy and paste an HTML div table into, eg, Excel
How do you copy an HTML div table and paste it as a table?
eg, I want to copy this comparison table into Excel, but instead of three columns I only get one. Those anti HTML table fascists have a lot ...
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Add copy-append and cut-append to Notepad++
Is it possible to do a 'copy-append' or 'cut-append' operation in Notepad++?
(means, copy/cut current selection or line if nothing selected, and append it to the copy/paste buffer instead of replacing ...
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How to copy a large terminal history from Alacritty to the system clipboard - the Alacritty clipboard seems to get cut
I installed Alacritty that uses vim to show files but embeds text in the terminal text so that I can copy whatever text from even ssh servers or terminals that do not have a system clipboard, and the ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut for pasting without formatting in Powerpoint?
In Microsoft Powerpoint 2019, if I want to paste using: Ctrl + Shift + V, that doesn't work, what is the new shortcut?
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How can I quickly select text in PuTTY?
I just tried to select thousands of lines in PuTTY, and it was painfully slow. It doesn't seem like any keyboard shortcuts work, so I had to hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor ...
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How to split multi-line clipboard data (e.g. from Excel) in single-line "pastes", one CTRL+V at a time
To illustrate my dilemma as simply as possible:
I have a list of values ranging from 1-10 that I want to copy and store.
When I press Ctrl+V (or any paste execution), I want 1 to be displayed. When I ...
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Copying text from PDF file doesn't keep indentation or formatting
I get a problem whenever I try to copy/paste code snippets from a PDF file, the pasted code doesn't keep the indentation which is a big problem in Python.
This is the source:
Here's what gets pasted:
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Copy & paste of text from OneNote (for Mac) to OneNote is EXTREMELY SLOW, while copying from outside remains fast
Copy & paste of even small snippets of text from WITHIN OneNote to the same or another page WITHIN OneNote is EXTREMELY SLOW.
Oddly, when copying text from OUTSIDE of OneNote, e.g. from Chrome or ...
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Copy shortcut changed as Ctrl+P on Windows 11, How to revert back to Ctrl+C?
Somehow "copy" shortcut changed as Ctrl+P, I don't know how but I think it changed after I upgrade to Windows 11. How to revert back shortcuts to default?
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Damage Source File due to Cancelling Copy Paste
I was copying some 20gb of important documents to my usb drive from my mac. The process got stuck midway and I had to cancel the copy paste operation. Second time doing so the usb drive got ejected by ...
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Windows 7 Crashes When Pasting a File
I have a Windows 7 (Professional, x64) machine. It started crashing when pasting a file (for both copy and cut operations). The entire OS gets crashed (not just the explorer.exe), even on the Safe ...
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How to resume files copying from broken hard drive?
I have an external hard drive that randomly crash. In windows it looks like it was physically disconnected and reconnected.
I want to copy one big file (+200go) from it.
Standard copying is not a ...
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Clipboard copy fails
I noticed some time ago that pasting things often pasted some old stuff from clipboard instead of whatever I had just copied. First I thought this has something to do with Excel, but it's apparently a ...
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copy-paste issue when using SSMS over GoToMyPC
I'm hoping someone here has run into this issue and knows if there's a fix for it.
When using GoToMyPC, I'm unable to copy text from the editor in SSMS (v14) on my remote desktop and paste it into the ...
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Need a Excel VBA loop code for copying and pasting a range
I want to make a loop for copying range A6 to B 2365 and pasting it 18 times below the previous range, i.e, I want to paste it right below the previous range so if the first range ends in row number ...
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