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Post by Goblin King on Apr 18, 2006 0:13:38 GMT
This forum uses BBCode. (formating tags in messages) If you're using Mozilla Firefox, you can download an "add on" here: addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1505/It creates a special "Paste as ..." facility in Firefox which allows you to copy from MS Word and other sources (I think it also works when copying web pages). When you paste into form box (like the "reply-to" message boxes) it retains format information such as bold and italics tags which would normally be lost when pasting. It's not perfect but I'm already using to convert meeting minutes notes from Word files on another forum. (But watch out for smart quotes and some special characters, it's rather primitive.) For a general guide to BBCode: www.bbcode.org/ |
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Post by xwitchymagicx on Apr 18, 2006 0:40:09 GMT
 lol
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Post by dratsucalex on Apr 20, 2006 8:09:42 GMT
that doesnt make any sense...did you INVENT computers?? you know everything about them!!!
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Post by Goblin King on Apr 20, 2006 14:01:39 GMT
ha ha - you need to spend more time on some real forums!  ;D Woah Alex - you're posting all over the place  - normally people ignore most of my posts - it feels freaky when I actually get a response. ;D ;D |
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Post by Goblin King on Apr 20, 2006 14:22:00 GMT
Okay, I'll explain. Mozilla Firefox is a "web broswer" like Internet Explorer. It's free and has some different features. I feel safer from viruses with Mozilla Firefox. When you type a document in Word or read a web page, often the text is "formatted" - meaning it uses bold and italic lettering, along with lots of other stuff. When you "copy and paste" text between two programs the "formatting" (bold, italic, etc) sometimes becomes lost.
"Hi there, you loon!"
Becomes "plain" or "unformatted" text:
"Hi there, you loon!"
On forums like this you can waste lots of time by putting the bold and italic "formatting tags" back in. There is a downloadable upgrade for Mozilla Firefox which prevents the problem from happening. So that makes me happy and I wanted to let people know.  It's not perfect (it gets confused by some special characters like smart/"curvy" quotation marks for example.) |
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Post by xwitchymagicx on Apr 20, 2006 19:08:43 GMT
Oh right...I just got firefox and was wondering what else i had to install that day.  
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Post by Goblin King on Apr 20, 2006 20:39:11 GMT
It certainly isn't an essential feature - not like Flash and stuff like that. |
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Post by dratsucalex on Apr 22, 2006 8:05:13 GMT
so it just stops documents and words changing?
my dad always said mozilla firefox is rubbish and was breaking our computer...but then again he is stupid
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Post by Count Überquart on Apr 22, 2006 8:11:19 GMT
He is. (Sorry) Internet explorer has fucked our computer. We get almost no pop-ups with Netscape, and loads with Explorer, which has about 5 pop up blockers. It's silly |
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Post by dratsucalex on Apr 22, 2006 8:12:35 GMT
dont be sorry, i insulted him first ;D
get a new computer?
my solution to everything! ;D
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Post by Count Überquart on Apr 22, 2006 8:17:00 GMT
I blame my mother - She uses Yahoo browser.  |
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Post by dratsucalex on Apr 22, 2006 8:18:22 GMT
yahoooooooo!
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lol
;D
- normally people ignore most of my posts - it feels freaky when I actually get a response. ;D ;D 
