Copying from Internet Explorer (11) towards WORD

[yjabiven]

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Hello

I used to copy pages from IE to WORD without any problem

Now I can still copy from WORD to WORD (text +images) but if I try to copy 2 IE lines minutes are due ; for a page ....end in a bug

Any idea ?

Thanks
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[SpywareDr]

... if I try to copy 2 IE lines minutes are due ; for a page ....end in a bug

Can you try and rephrase that please? Or maybe give/show us an example?

[yjabiven]

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OK

And I just realize something very interesting

I can copy part of this page (from forum till Reply to Thread)

Now I try only a line on my gmail page and ....bug

Thanks
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[SpywareDr]

Which line on your Gmail page?

[yjabiven]

Thanks

Example ; Those lines

Hello yjabiven,
SpywareDr has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled -

[Welshjim]

yjabiven--
I cannot copy single or several lines on a GMail page. But if I click Edit|Select All|Copy I can copy the whole page. The formatting, however, is pretty messy.

[yjabiven]

Thanks JIM

Yes but why ?

[SpywareDr]

Try resetting IE, it's working fine here:



(To reset IE, click Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab > Reset... button. Select "Delete personal settings", click the Reset button and then restart IE).

[yjabiven]

Thanks

Good idea ; it's now finer for other web pages ...but gmail

[Welshjim]

yjabiven--"Yes but why ?"

When the "text" isn't really text — when it is an image/bitmap.

I find that I can copy/paste text from a GMail email message just fine. But not the text on the Inbox page (with the list of incoming messages).

[yjabiven]

Thanks Jim

But that still weird

Because I can copy the whole SpywareDr post above (yesterday 7:25)

I suspect something related to gmail (I make copy from mails not gmail)

Regards

[SpywareDr]

Can you post a screenshot of a page, or a link to a page that you cannot copy?

[yjabiven]

BAD Only the line !BAD.jpg
GOOD for the whole GOOD.jpg

[Welshjim]

yjabiven--

"But that still weird"

It may be weird, but that is the fact.
One way to copy pages of images that look like text is to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

[SpywareDr]

Jim is quite correct. A picture of a page is NOT the same as a page with text.

For example, if you open Notepad and type in:

Hello VirtualDr Forum

you can then highlight that line with your mouse and then press [Ctrl][C] to copy it into memory.

However, if you press [Alt][PrintScreen], then open Microsoft Paint (mspaint) and press [Ctrl][V] to paste in the screenshot (picture) of that Notepad page, you would NOT be able to highlight and copy the:

Hello VirtualDr Forum

that you see in the picture of that page.