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aRKay
I have been experiencing an annoying problem and I was not sure if the
problem was with Entourage 11.3.6, Mac OSX 10.4.10 or me. I do a lot of
copy and pasting from web pages etc to email. My preferred technique is
the old Mac OSX keystroke technique to hold down (Cmd-Shift-4), drag
over desired area, then paste it into Entourage.
This works some of the time; however, sometimes when I try to paste
the clip Entourage does nothing but flash the Edit menu or paste in
the previously selected clip. This has been very annoying.
I thought the problem was the clipboard was not being properly cleared
so thanks to one of the MVP's I have added an AppleScript a few months
ago to my Entourage menu bar to Clear the Clipboard. FYI, he script is:
tell application "System Events" to set the clipboard to ""
The script solves the problem where that previously selected clip was
being pasted; however, I was still having problems getting a newly
selected clip to paste into Entourage.
After a few failed attempts I would give up on the keystroke technique
and resort to the SnapNDrag application. The SnapNDrag, as well as
several other 3rd party applications, work correct.
While preparing this message I just happened to check at
http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html and may have found the problem.
It was me!
The keystroke to copy the screenshot to the clipboard instead of making
a file is to use Cmd-Shift-Control-4. I just tried it and it works
great.
I probably knew about the Control key thing but forgot and hope this
reminder to use Cmd-Shift-Control-4 helps someone else having the same
problem.
Old dogs can learn (or relearn) new tricks!
aRKay
problem was with Entourage 11.3.6, Mac OSX 10.4.10 or me. I do a lot of
copy and pasting from web pages etc to email. My preferred technique is
the old Mac OSX keystroke technique to hold down (Cmd-Shift-4), drag
over desired area, then paste it into Entourage.
This works some of the time; however, sometimes when I try to paste
the clip Entourage does nothing but flash the Edit menu or paste in
the previously selected clip. This has been very annoying.
I thought the problem was the clipboard was not being properly cleared
so thanks to one of the MVP's I have added an AppleScript a few months
ago to my Entourage menu bar to Clear the Clipboard. FYI, he script is:
tell application "System Events" to set the clipboard to ""
The script solves the problem where that previously selected clip was
being pasted; however, I was still having problems getting a newly
selected clip to paste into Entourage.
After a few failed attempts I would give up on the keystroke technique
and resort to the SnapNDrag application. The SnapNDrag, as well as
several other 3rd party applications, work correct.
While preparing this message I just happened to check at
http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html and may have found the problem.
It was me!
The keystroke to copy the screenshot to the clipboard instead of making
a file is to use Cmd-Shift-Control-4. I just tried it and it works
great.
I probably knew about the Control key thing but forgot and hope this
reminder to use Cmd-Shift-Control-4 helps someone else having the same
problem.
Old dogs can learn (or relearn) new tricks!
aRKay