Saturday, June 04, 2005

cntl-A cntl-c THEN preview

For all you Blogger users. Have you ever typed a long post only to hit "Preview" and have text missing? This anomaly has occurred for me so many times that I had almost given up on the preview link in favor of publishing the post and re-editing. A simplier solution is to develop a better habit. Instead of typing your post and immediately clicking "Preview" try adding two keystrokes. On a windows based PC, holding down the control key (Ctrl) and pressing "A" will select all the text in the window with the current focus (in most cases). Ctrl-c will copy that text into the Windows cut and paste buffer. Ctrl-v will paste whatever is in the cut and paste buffer.

So your new steps are:

  1. Create your post
  2. Ctrl-a to select everything you typed and then ctrl-c to copy to the clipboard
  3. Click Preview to make sure everything is correct
  4. If text is missing after returning from the preview, click into the editing window and type ctrl-a to select all text then type ctrl-v to paste your saved post
  5. Now click the button that has a checkmark under ABC for spell checking

Note: On Macintoshes I believe command-a will select all while command-c and command-v will cut and paste respectively.

djuggler's personal blog is Reality Me and consults as Superior Internet Designs


Posted by: djuggler | 10:47 PM |