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    How to "copy" a thread

    G'morning,
    Has anyone figured out a way to copy a message board thread, and paste into Word (or whatever), without having some of the copied posts extend way beyond the margins?

    Thanks,
    Wanda

    #2
    RE: How to

    Wanda:

    I'm not sure what your requirements are (i.e., if it's necessary to save the thread in a MS Word format), but a quick-and-dirty method (assuming you are using MS Internet Explorer) is to right-click the link from the topic list and save the topic thread as an .htm file on your hard disk.

    You can then view the saved file/thread in IE using the "File, Open..." menu choice.

    I've attached a sample .htm file created in this manner.

    If I'm not mistaken, most of the newer versions of Word can open and manipulate HTML documents.

    George

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      #3
      RE: How to

      Hi George,
      Thank you so much for responding. Your suggestion sounds great, but I'm not finding a Copy As anything, when I right click on the thread.

      I tried several options that are afforded me when i right click, but to no avail. I managed to make a nonesense shortcut, and a Paste (of something...not sure if it was the thread, or what) into WinExp, but that makes the whole system hang up for several minutes.

      Is there another way that you know of?

      Thanks, again - Wanda

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        #4
        RE: How to

        George

        What Wanda and a lot of others here want to be able to do, is print out a whole thread and not loose the messages that have gone over to the right and you have to scroll to read them. I asume what you are suggesting will just save the thread in the same format it is now.

        Keith Hubert
        London.
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        Keith Hubert
        Alpha Guild Member
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        KHDB Management Systems
        Skype = keith.hubert


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          #5
          RE: How to

          Wanda,

          Just highlight the selection with your mosue. Right click, slect copy & paste into your document. Works for me!

          Peter

          P.S. I paste into a memo field in a special table I call "Tbl_Xbasic.dbf"
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

          [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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            #6
            RE: How to

            Yes, this works - except that when the thread is long and has posts that extend to the far right, the document margins extend way beond the size of any paper that fits into the printer...I'd like it to be confined to an 8 1/2 X 11" picee of paper.

            Keith's response is correct in that others on this board have been interested in copy/pasting an entire thread without the margin problem.

            The only way I've found to avoid the right margin problem is to copy/paste EACH post, which is very tedious and seems so archaic.

            Your idea of pasting into a table sounds interesting, though. I'll try that. Thanks :)

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              #7
              RE: How to

              I don't know if I'm on the same track but ,

              just create a short cut,hyperlink to the thread

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                #8
                RE: How to

                Wanda:

                Sorry, I should have been more specific:

                After right-clicking the topic from the topic list, choose "Save Target As...". This will bring up the dialog box for saving files to your disk.

                I guess I'm still not sure if this is a saving, file format, on-screen viewing or printing issue.

                If it's an on-screen viewing issue, (i.e., you do not want to have to scroll right) then perhaps you might consider upping your screen resolution by right-clicking on the desktop, choosing "Properties..." and then accessing the "Settings" tab; the display area adjustment should be there. Assuming that you have a decent sized monitor (19" & up), and a video adapter capable of displaying the higher resolutions,you should be able to go up to 1024 x 768 or 1280 x 1024. The messages will not be "cut off" on the right hand side, unless they are nested (and indented) many levels deep.

                If you need the MS Word format, perhaps you can set the page up to be landscape, and reduce the margins. The forum messages should fit this way, for most of the threads.

                Another, less obvious solution, is to open the saved .htm document in MS Excel (I'm using Excel 2000). Excel will left justify all of the messages in "column A'. Further, Excel has the scaling feature that can be used when printing to force a spreadsheet into a given page size.

                I've attached a sample .xls spreadsheet which contains a rather lengthy thread (fifty some messages) as an example.

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                  #9
                  RE: How to

                  I do appreciate all the input on this, but I'm apparently not being very clear...I'll try again...

                  The end result that I want is a PRINTED document of every post within any given thread. I want the posts to fit within the confines of an 8 1/2 X 11" paper, in portrait. I want to find a faster way other than copy/pasting EACH post.

                  I've tried all suggestions given, but either get a LINK to the thread, or my connection to the internet gets hung up.

                  I don't want a link. I want a printed document that doesn't have posts falling off on the right hand side.

                  Keith hit it on the nail.

                  I'm thinking that no one has figured out how to convert a thread to a printed document, without dealing with those pesky posts that are nested to the far right.

                  You're right, George in that I could print the document in landscape - but that is not what I want. I've been doing this, and just thought I'd revisit how to print in portrait mode, since this has been discussed before, and to my knowledge, no one has yet come up with a solution.

                  Thank you again for your persistence :)
                  Wanda

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                    #10
                    copy thread

                    Wanda the attached file is a text file of this entire thread. To make it I just Ctrl-A to mark the entire thread Ctrl-C to copy the marked text than I just pasted it into my text editor.

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                      #11
                      RE: copy thread

                      Allen - thanks! Pasting into my text editor works like a charm :) This will work for me, as I don't HAVE to have the doc in Word, necessarily.

                      Thanks so much :)

                      Wanda

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                        #12
                        RE: copy thread

                        GRRR ...

                        It would be nice to be able to print just by hitting the print button on the browser.

                        The increasing indentation on each reply does not really help when the responses fill multiple pages. They would be just as useful by being all left-justified.

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                          #13
                          RE: copy thread

                          Paul,

                          If everyone limited a thread to a single topic, I'd agree with you, but they don't, so I don't.

                          -- tom

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                            #14
                            RE: copy thread

                            The identation could be reduce to about 1/2 or possibly 1/3 of what it is now and it would still accomplish its purpose, but make reading easier... :-)

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                            Suggestion :-)

                            Now.. I would like to receive the posts in my inbox :-)
                            I don't mind posting online...that is a good leveler to make sure the posters are paying attention to the thread....

                            And if I am really watching the threads by the hour... online is fine for reading.

                            However, if I go away for a day having them in my inbox is helpful, it is hard to not go over a lot of the same stuff (even using the times) also the searching is more flexible and quicker, and the threading is the same as online, and the permanant archiving is better..


                            ======================

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                              #15
                              RE: copy thread

                              Hi Tom:

                              That's further illustration that the indentation is meaningless.

                              Paul

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