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Under the Tips & Tricks category -- My favorite tool if you are using a Windows computer is Notepad - a great, simple text editor that I keep handy to cut and paste information from multiple sources and combine it into one source for pasting else where. I created a shortcut on the bottom Taskbar so that it's available when ever I need it...just have to click on it to open. I also have a links.txt file that I keep all my favorite Connect links and information in one place. When I'm in Connect I will generally have this open and can copy and paste from it.
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For me, @johnbishop, Notepad is the tool of choice. As you pointed out, Connect Post ignores most style instructions and presents words in "plain vanilla text," so a direct transfer from Notepad is effective and efficient. In fact, I almost never compose anything on the Connect web site (because I have lost important ideas to clumsy fingers and faulty clicks). Instead, I draft in Notepad, then select it, copy it (CTRL-C), then paste it (CTRL-V) into a Connect web site COMMENT. Once it's on the web site, I delete (or don't save) the text on my laptop, saving beaucoup disk space!
". . . losing my work-in-progress." Exactly my problem, @rosemarya, so Notepad is my tool of choice. Since Connect Post ignores most style instructions and presents words in "plain vanilla text," a direct transfer from Notepad is effective and efficient. I almost never compose anything on the Connect web site (because I have lost important ideas to clumsy fingers and faulty clicks), draft in Notepad, then select it, copy it (CTRL-C), then paste it (CTRL-V) into a Connect web site COMMENT. Once it's on the web site, I delete (or don't save) the text on my laptop, saving beaucoup disk space!
That's exactly what I do, @predictable.
@predictable, That is what I am learning to do! I guess you might say that I am a work in progress:-).
@hopeful33250 You and me both! (Needing 'Notepad For Dummies'. Ha!
Aren't we all, Rosemary! Sometimes, I just wish my creator would work a bit more slowly or a lot faster, but His timing is perfect and mine is not!
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