Quoting in Windows95
By Dean Randall
Dear Terry,
You wrote to the Automatic Music Digest on 8/14/96:
> I've been using Windows for several years, and never knew till recently
> that it is possible to "select" a portion of whatever I'm looking at by
> holding down the "shift" key while mouse clicking on the top line of
> target quote, then clicking on the bottom line of the target quote.
> The selected portion will then be hi-lighted which can then be "copied"
This won't work in Win95. What you will get is the entire "paragraph" (i.e.: everything between carrier returns) highlighted.
The procedure in Windows 95 is to place the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to quote, then while holding down the mouse button, move the cursor to the end of the desired material and release the button. Depending upon the e-mail program you are using, follow the procedure to copy and paste the quote into your "new" message.
> The ordinary "reply" function picks up the whole of the incoming a-m
> digest and drops it into the new reply, forcing very time consuming
> select and delete functions to bring the reply back down to a
> manageable size.
This is true in Win95 with Eudora also. I don't know about other e-mail programs. You might try it and see if it works for you.
Best,
Dean Randall
-Eagles may soar, but weasels seldom get sucked into jet aircraft engines-
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