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RE: Why can't I cut and paste between Mathematica and other applications?

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• Subject: [mg34422] RE: [mg34405] Why can't I cut and paste between Mathematica and other applications?
• From: "DrBob" <majort at cox-internet.com>
• Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 04:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Select what you want to copy, right-click, choose copy as plain text, go
to the e-mail program, and paste.  This isn't very satisfactory
sometimes when the code includes special characters, power notation,
etc.  Sometimes you can use //InputForm to get a version that pastes
more easily into e-mail.

I continue to have problems with this myself, though.  I hope there are
more ideas out there.

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Math [mailto:michael-math at science.edu] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg34422] [mg34405] Why can't I cut and paste between Mathematica and
other applications?

I'm running Mathematica 4.0 under Windows XP.

The Mathematica documentation clearly states that when you copy "The
copied
text can then be inserted in another notebook or elsewhere in the same
notebook with the Paste command."

But how do I get it to paste into another application?  For example,
suppose
that I would like to paste part of my session into an e-mail to send to
this
list.  I have to either re-type everything and hope that I don't make a
mistake, or else I have to save (paste) it to a file, then go to open
the
file in
notepad and copy it from there to paste into my mail program.  This is
very
inconvenient, especially if I have lots of different lines in different
places.

Cut does not work either.  I can copy and cut and paste anywhere within
Mathematica, but nothing is being sent to the Windows clipboard.  The
"Paste" option in other Windows applications is greyed out, and the
clipboard editor shows the clipboard is empty.  I am trying to paste
simple
text, no fancy graphics or fonts.

Am I missing something?

Michael

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