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Copying a thread
« on: November 06, 2009, 09:32:42 PM »
OK so now I need to copy the text from a very long, and getting longer, thread and apart from copy and paste every entry into a word document or 'file' 'print' -ing each page does anyone have any more efficient ideas. Thanks  :)
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 11:06:05 PM »
Does this help? - See attached .txt file.
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2009, 11:32:01 PM »
And now with all 8 pages in the file. You should be able to open the plain text file with any word processor. M$ Word or whatever.
Might need tidying / proper proof reading but it's 99% of the collating work done i am sure. Let me know if you want it updating as the thread grows and I will try to oblige.


(If anyone really must know how I did that then here goes... I ran the webpage html (source) files through a stream editor with various string replacements defined to distill out the text we were interested in as best I could at 11pm (yawn). This I did at a GNU/Linux command line in Ubuntu :) )
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2009, 09:59:04 AM »
YOU ARE A STAR!!!!!
Only thing is if I could be so picky :-[...is there any way of also picking up, who said it? If not I may need to edit each one to add the name/screenname of each contributor so that it becomes more personal; but you have done 99% of the work so if you cant don't worry. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!




Sorry for the over use of exclamation marks, bit excitable in my glee!
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2009, 10:42:58 AM »
Press the print button..... it will open a new page.

Copy the text (Press ctrl and A to select all the ctrl and C to copy)

Open word or equivelant and press Ctrl and V to paste !
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2009, 11:45:29 AM »
As attached below....  ;)
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2009, 01:13:44 PM »
OMG ROFLMAO AT MY SELF! I didn't even look for a print function built into the forum!!!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Copying a thread
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2009, 04:17:44 PM »
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OMG ROFLMAO AT MY SELF! I didn't even look for a print function built into the forum!!!!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Me too  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Oh how silly do I feel now!
Thanks to both of you anyway :D  :-*
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