Re: Copying cell contents?
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- Subject: [mg69848] Re: Copying cell contents?
- From: jmhigg at gmail.com
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 03:53:21 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <ef5083$mma$1@smc.vnet.net>
Convert your cell to InputForm and then paste
Cheers,
Brian
AES wrote:
> OK, what's the magic procedure for copying the text contents of a
> notebook cell and pasting it into a word processor or newsgroup message
> so I *don't* get something like the following?
>
>
> \!\(\* RowBox[{\(ReplaceAll::"reps"\), \(\(:\)\(\ \)\),
> \"\<\"\\!\\({\\(ProjectInformation[\\(\\(\\\"/Users/AE\\\"\[Ellipsis]\\\"
> \culations\\\"\\)\\)]\\)}\\) is neither a list of replacement rules nor
> a \valid dispatch table, and so cannot be used for replacing.
> \\\!\\(\\*ButtonBox[\\\"More\[Ellipsis]\\\",
> ButtonStyle->\\\"RefGuideLinkText\\\\", ButtonFrame->None,
> ButtonData:>\\\"ReplaceAll::reps\\\"]\\)\"\>"}]\)
>
>
>
> * What do I select? (Cell bracket? or cell contents?)
>
> * Which of the FrontEnd menu commands do I choose?
>
> Seems as if each and every one of the menu commands, *all* of them, lead
> to the above.