This is the third post on our series on how to copy paste stuff. The
previous posts covered on how to copy text from web and PDFs. This post explain how you could 'paste' (Ctrl+V) effectively.
Paste Paste Paste (Ctrl+V) ….
a) Multiple Paste Method:-
Suppose you are reading a judgment and pasting different extracts of the
judgment in a doc file. Now each time you find something useful you have to
open and then switch to your word processor be it be Notepad or MS Word or
something else. This leads to wastage of time. What if you could copy all the
stuff in one go and then paste it. This is where clipboard managers come in
play. ClipX, Arsclip, CLCL and Ditto are some of the famous ones. My
personal favourite is Arsclip.
With a clipboard manager you could simply select the text
you want to copy and press ( Ctrl+C) and then move on. Keep on copying text
like this and paste it one go.
ProTip – If you paste
all text from Arsclip it will paste the text in the reverse order i.e. the last
text is copied in the beginning and the first chunk of text copied in the end.
You could fix this. First press ctrl+shift+z in Word where you intend to paste
the text.
A similar drop down menu will pop up like this:
In it click on full mode then press ‘L’ or click on ‘pasting
tools’ and then click on paste selected text. Select the desired text and then
select ‘Paste in Reverse’.
b) Removing Line breaks in PDF:- Often you will fact this problem you will copy
something which looks normal in a pdf and when
pasted in word processor it looks like this
Now you start the laborious
process of deleting unnecessary line breaks. There is a way to automate this.
In word after pasting the text
select it and press Ctrl+H, the replace dialog box will open in it write ‘^p’
(^p stands for a line break) without quotes in the Find What blank and give a
space in the replace with dialog and
then press replace all. After this
dialog box will ask of you want to continue replacing in the rest of Document
press “No’. Your text will be
sorted.
c) Making ‘Paste Special’
Method as Default Option:- Most of you would be knowing about the paste
special method in MS Word and how pasting text in ‘unformatted text’ mode of
Word 2007 or ‘merge formatting’ and ‘keep text only’ option of Word 2010 merges
formatting. In File à
Options à
Advanced you could change the option
‘pasting from other programs’ to ‘merge formatting’ and now onward you could simply
paste the text directly from pdf or web without using paste special. In case
you want to retain formatting then you could use ‘paste special’ with ‘keep
source formatting’ option.
d) Pasting in Protected Fields – Your college/university website may
not allow you to directly paste text in the blank fields. This could be easily
be overcome by disabling client side scripts. Install this plugin
if you are using Google Chrome, this if you
are using Mozilla Firefox, this if
you are using Opera and this if
you are using Safari. Disable all scripts and reload the page. Now, you are
good to go.
e) Textarea backup for browsers - As a lawyer often feel obliged to make the shortest possible comment to a 1000 word essay. Often feel frustrated that your comment does not get posted and you will have to rewrite it again. This script will ensure that such situation never take place again and will backup whatever you type in a textarea even after reloading the webpage.
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