BS: Really dumb question............

Subject: BS: Really dumb question............
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 10:33 PM

Can you send the same PM to several different people at once? I have tried and failed miserably. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: Amos
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 10:37 PM

I don't believe you can. Copy the text to your clipboard and paste into multiple PMs each to a different person. You can however send one to yourself.
The PM system is different than the mail system most email users are used to.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Jul 07 - 10:42 PM

Thanks Amos -- I haven't worked out the intricacies of clipboard - multiple pastings - nor yet blue clickies.......thanks for responding.......

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 12:40 AM

You can type up the first one, in PM mode, then left click your mouse and drag it over the text. When it is all highlighted, click CTRL-C to copy it OR go up to EDIT and choose COPY form the drop-down menu. Go ahead and send that PM. When you open the next one you want to send put your cursor in the text box and hit CTRL-V to paste it in OR go to EDIT and choose PASTE. Voila!

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 12:25 AM

Not a dumb question at all. Shouldn't this be TECH and above the line?

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 10:00 PM

I didn't know TECH was an option -- I thought it was only Music or BS.

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 10:03 PM

Not a stupid question, Deborah. I believe the answer is "No".

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 10:20 PM

The answer is "no," but it's really not hard to leaarn how to use copy-and-paste. Highlight what you want to copy (CTRL-A will highlight everything). Then copy (CTRL-C), and that puts the stuff on the "clipboard" in your computer's memory. Then go to a new message, and Paste (CTRL-V) the information into the messaage box.
Give it a try, Deborah. I'm sure you can do it.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 10:24 PM

Gee...is there an echo in here?**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 11:22 PM

Joe -- you lost me at 'clipboard in your computer's memory.....' -- you would not believe how technically illiterate I am!!! But Sins and Jacqui are coming over for dinner on Sunday - maybe one of them can show me how....!

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 06:03 PM

I can take you through that Deb. I'll also show you how to choose a category for a new thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Really dumb question............
From: Rowan
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 01:33 AM

Not a dumb question; we have all been beginners. Although I gather you'll be given some personal tuition by experts, here's a quick summary for the benefit of others who may be wondering.

Near the top of the Forum page is a blue clicky for starting a new thread; you used it to start this one. The page that opens so you can start the new thread includes, just under the "title" window, an option to use one of the common prefixes (Prefices?) such as Tech, BS, etc.

Now for the clipboard. Most computer software used by consumers uses a "Copy" command in which a section of text (for example) is highlighted by moving the cursor, selecting "Copy" from a popdown menu (usually headed "Edit"), moving the cursor to where you want the copied text insertted, and selecting "Paste" from the same popdown menu.

The text that was 'Copied' is kept in the Clipboard, a flexible section of short term memory in the computer and (unless it is huge) it stays there until the next time you use the "Copy" command.* That's why the suggestion was made about copying text from your first PM and then just pasting it into successive, subsequent, PMs. It also allows you to transfer text from one application (Word, say) to others such as Excel, Powerpoint, emails, web browsers (and thus Mudcat) etc.

* If you use "Cut" from the Edit popdown, the highlighted text will disappear from your source document but it will be kept in the Clipboard and thus you'll be able to use "Paste" to insert it into other applications as above.

Small amounts in the Clipboard may be kept even if the computer is shut down (although you should practise with nonessential items on yours to check) but if the Clipboard contents are large, most applications will ask, as soon as you attempt to shut the application down, whether you want the Clipboard contents saved.

End of rave, which I hope is helpful.

Cheers, Rowan