Re: copying & pasting between XY and MS

  • From: Paul Lagasse <pglagasse@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:25:16 -0400

On 03/23/2010 03:30 PM, Harry Binswanger wrote:

1) No taskbar:
On my ME, when I hit alt-enter, I get a small screen that reads "EDITOR" at the very top, and under that, a taskbar with the edit icons--"mark," "copy," "paste"--as well as "properties," "fonts," and an icon to return to full screen. But when I've tested Xy (via flashdrive) on an Xp (or on Vista, which is worse), there's no taskbar at all. Instead, this appears at the very top: E:\Xywrite\EDiTOR.EXE.

Have you tried right-clicking (I forget whether you do this with cursor on title bar or in text area)?


Both of Harry suggestions will work, though if you right-click the titlebar the menu that you get will have the "mark, etc." functions under "Edit." Alternatively, you can access this same menu by using the key combo alt+spacebar.

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But coming out of my cozy cave, I see that these new-fangled computers don't do floppies. And so the only way to copy/paste from Xy to email is to use the mark-copy-paste technique in Xy on windows.

There are, as Harry says, better (much better) ways to do this besides using a floppy, but you still can use one if you wish. If you want to transition to XP and preserve your past practices, you purchase a USB floppy drive, which the computer will treat as A:, and use that. I personally don't think this is a good idea, but....

Paul Lagasse

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