Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
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- Subject: [mg38089] Re: copying cells in Mathematica 4.2
- From: zeno <zeno1234 at mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:29:26 -0500 (EST)
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OK, here is what it does for me.... I am using Mathematica 4.2.1 with Macintosh OS X 10.1.5.... If i use the "shoft key", and I select a cell, then select another cell while skipping some cells, it still selects all the cells between the 2 that i have selected....I then copy those and I paste them into a new notebook. Even though it selected some cells that i did not want selected, it does still paste the individual cells into the new notebook. However, if I use the "command key" instead of the "shirt key", I can select individual cells to copy with out it selecting the cells inbetween, meaning i can only selct the particular cells i want to select, and they still paste as individual cells. not sure if your using the "command key" will enable you to paste into seperate cells but its worth a shot. try the Command key instead of the shirt key... In article <as5q6j$nik$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote: > I am having an extremely frustrating time with one "feature" of > Mathematica 4.2 which I swear was not present in earlier versions. It > find is quite dreadful and yet none seems to have complained about it > so far so that I feel that perhaps I missing something obvious. > Anyway, this is the problem. I have two notebooks with a large number > of cells each. I want to copy some cells from one notebook to the > other. I am sure in earlier versions it used to be possible to select > several contiguous cells by shift clicking and then paste them into > another notebook. You would then get several cells of the same type as > you copied. However now (at least on Mac OS X) this seems impossible. > What happens is that if you select a several cells or a cell group and > past into another notebook you get a messy expression contained in a > single cell from which it does not appear possible to easily recover > the original cells. I have tired using various Copy As but have not > found anything that works. The only thing that works is copying and > pasting individual cells, which is of course very time consuming. > Is this also what happens on other platforms? I am sure it was not the > case in earlier versions, and if so was this an intentional change? It > so it seems to me as bad an idea as I have come across in many years. > Can anyone explain? > > Andrzej Kozlowski > >