Re: [libreoffice-users] Select/copy content of a comment

Oops--I left out a key part of the query: The problem is selecting and 
copying the content of a popup comment in an LO Calc cell.

Sorry.

(Context is everything.)

On 04/01/2016 05:15 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>         strange, but maybe I can help,
>            [see comments interspersed below]
>
>
>
> From: Eric Beversluis <ebever@researchintegration.org>
> Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:29 PM
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Select/copy content of a comment
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> How do I select and copy the content of a comment?
>
>     [if you're referring to a website, then run the mouse along the copy
> which should highlight that portion, then right-click & choose copy which
> should place the highlighted text in the temporary storage so you can paste
> it elsewhere;
>
>      if you're referring to an e-mail, then you can attempt to do the same -
> but sometimes, you'll have to first click as if you were planning to send
> the document elsewhere in order to make the copy accept the mouse - why, I
> haven't a clue  ;-)]
>
>   When I open the comment and try to select its content, all I get is a hand
> to move the content around on the page.
>
>     [whether referring to a site or an e-mail, you could 'save as' this
> document to the machine, then try again when it's on your machine - why,
> this works I haven't a clue other than you've possibly broken whatever the
> site had holding it  ;-)]
>
> (Eg, I've got a long URL in the comment that I want to copy and past into
> the browser.) The page on inserting and editing comments doesn't seem to
> address this function.
>
>     [simplest method would be to copy a portion of this URL - paste into a
> notepad document; then copy remaining portion of URL - paste this onto the
> portion in notepad - then the whole URL is ready to copy & paste into your
> browser window.]
>
> thanks.

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Eric Beversluis
www.ericbeversluis.com <http://www.ericbeversluis.com>

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