TIP Copying word processor text into the forum

[richg1998]

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe

I type everything in MS Works because it has spell check which doesn’t seem to work here. It is set for 12 size Times New Roman. I cut it and paste it here. Somehow it just copies the words not the font so when I paste it here it uses the default font.

 

After the upgrade a few years ago, spell check has been hit or miss depending on the forum you are using. Must have been low bid programmers. The Power That Be have always been silent about that last upgrade.

I have used Open Office and now Libre Office. Free downloads and they don't bug you. Liberation Serif. 12.

Even my Image Manipulation Program program is free. Gimp.

Rich

[Lone Wolf and Santa Fe]

I think the default font here is verdana.

[Lone Wolf and Santa Fe]

I type everything in MS Works because it has spell check which doesn’t seem to work here. It is set for 12 size Times New Roman. I cut it and paste it here. Somehow it just copies the words not the font so when I paste it here it uses the default font.

[rrinker]

tstage

 

 

BigDaddy

Voila or Viola if you prefer...

 

 

Viola, Henry...'cause there's just too much violins posted on the internet these days...

Tom

 

 Not enough sax anymore though, now that Clarence Clemens is gone.

                            --Randy

 

[tstage]

BigDaddy

Voila or Viola if you prefer...

Viola, Henry...'cause there's just too much violins posted on the internet these days...

Tom

[RR_Mel]

I’ve been using Word with Verdana font set for 12 and it seems to do OK.

 

As you said copy and paste works a lot better than plunking around online.  I can put my picture and link location in the Word document then do a second copy and paste using the forum format, much faster and easier to keep track of the photos and links.

 

Mel

 

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

[BigDaddy]

 

I should do this more often because I have a dodgy laptop that sometimes decides to shut itself down in the middle of my reply.  The problem is

     the text you import prints very small in the forum

even trying the format options you might think would give you a slightly larger font.

For those of us visually challenged, large blocks of normal text or perfectly formatted text with very small font are problems.  The former is more of how some of our brains are hardwired to see shapes.  

There is an easy peasy way to normalize the text you wish to copy and paste.

Since you’ve copied it once, you already know how to highlight the text.  Highlight everything you have copied and select Format.  Select clear formatting. Voila or Viola if you prefer, everything is back to what passes as normal in this forum.