1. Intro
In Windows 10, the new ruler tool is not very useful – it only shows you how far you can copy and paste text. It does not show you how far it pastes past the previous in window 10 (or any other place).
This is a problem because if you have copied negative words and then pasted them in a positive context, they will be pasted over the paragraph before them. For example, this sentence:
My team are all very dedicated people who constantly put the needs of our customers above their own.
This will be pasted over a parenthetical phrase which uses those words, such as “sic”:
My team are all very dedicated people who constantly put the needs of our customers above their own.
And this sentence:
I am happy to say that my team has been able to achieve great results for me as a business owner in recent months.
Will be pasted over a paragraph using those words, such as “networking”:
2. Problem
When you copy and paste in Word, you’re pasting the text from one window to another. It’s not a big deal, but it does have consequences. The first problem is that when you paste a very large chunk of text into a Word document, it will truncate the copied text on both documents to fit the new window. So, if your copy and paste is a couple of hundred words long, you can end up with "two copies of the same paragraph" in your Word document.click on Tere
This is not so bad for writing software (say, code) but for reading it aloud is problematic. You’ll often hear people say things like:
Well… Yes… In some cases this is not true; and in other cases it probably is! But at any rate most people will be surprised when they find they are reading something using a tool which has this awkward habit of truncating copy and pasted text down to fit the right window!
I am going to show you how to fix this problem in Windows 10 using two separate techniques: -1) Right-click on any text block in Word or another application and select Copy As... -2) Right-click on any other block in an open window and select Paste From... You can now see exactly what has been pasted into your own mouth as opposed to whatever was sent into your email message or link from someone else's computer!
3. How to solve it?
Copy and paste is a fundamental part of many programming languages, especially the ones that are highly developed. The latest version of one of those languages (which I don’t have in front of me right now) has a word-processing mode that copies pasted text.
Some programmers might be tempted to simply use a different mouse button to have their cursor follow the previous stuff you copied. That would be fine for some users, but it would make some users very unhappy. It also creates new bugs, because if you make a mistake (like accidentally pasting the wrong character), there’s no way of fixing it without deleting all the text you copied in the first place.
The fix is quite simple: when you copy and paste, the system does not use the standard paste method for that particular element. Instead it uses a different paste method which works like this:
1. If there are several elements that share the same region, then just replace everything from one to all with nothing else at all -- e.g., cut out everything except bold and italic text from this text; or simply delete everything except bold and italic text from this text; or put nothing at all on this line but put something on this line or below; etc.. This will result in each element being replaced by just whatever was originally on that line before your app was opened -- e.g., bold and italic text will be replaced by bold and italic paragraph text; or bold and italic paragraph text will be replaced by bold and italic line-continuation-text; etc.. click on that
2. If there is no shared region then instead keep only what was originally on that line before your app was opened -- e.g., keep only paragraphs; keep only lines; etc.. This can be done using simple keystrokes (the computer won’t care about what changing these keystrokes does to your app).
3. If there are no shared regions then instead use a combination of these two methods:
a) Just replace everything from one to all with nothing else at all -- e.g., cut out everything except bold and italic paragraph text from this paragraph of paragraph text; or just delete everything except bold and italic sentence punctuation from this sentence of sentence punctuation; or put nothing at all on this line but put something here or below (this can also be done by pressing Ctrl+Z twice); etc.. This would result in each element
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4. Conclusion
I am absolutely positive that in your mind the preceding text is the previous copy of this one. The two are copies of each other, so they are identical.
In this post on Medium, I’m going to look more closely at a few of the ways we humans have an uncanny tendency to copy from one document to another, and suggest ways to avoid these problems.
The first thing we need to do is acknowledge that copying works for us. We just have an incredibly good sense for what will stand out or not, and it’s likely that we’ll see words or phrases that catch our attention (or not). So we take them and paste them in our own documents. It’s also possible that what stands out may be a word or phrase you don’t recognize as being “your own”; there are hundreds of people using the same term and it can feel like everyone is using you as their spokesperson, but really you’re just another person who has put your name on a piece of paper for your own use.
• We tend not to put a lot of thought into what we are copying — we just pick up whatever stands out or seems interesting, without much consideration about whether it works for us as a writer or speaker (or as a product). This leads to similar-sounding words being reused by different people over time (and even if they aren’t similar in meaning they might sound very similar like) creating confusion around which names are yours and which ones belong to others. This can be particularly problematic when you change your name over time:
• We often don't think very hard about how many times we will reuse something. At any given time someone else may be using say “work hours” or “features/product development work hours” or “product development work hours/product development process." We could easily end up with dozens of versions if we were working on multiple products at once (and then discover all those versions were actually created by me!) — especially if you consider different key words which might mean the same thing but have different meanings depending on context — such as "work hours" vs "developments." These things can get confusing quickly when you have multiple versions floating around! In other words, just because one version was used enough times by a certain set of people doesn't mean it's yours!