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==Saving your Work== | ==Saving your Work== | ||
Clicking the Submit/Save/Preview button for any website is sometimes a risky situation where our submitted text may be lost due to a bad internet connection, browser crash or server issue. Its helpful to get in a habit of "copying" text that has had some work put into it. | Clicking the Submit/Save/Preview button for any website is sometimes a risky situation where our submitted text may be lost due to a bad internet connection, browser crash or server issue. Its helpful to get in a habit of "copying" text that has had some work put into it. These tips will help prevent loss of text on our site and also on any other webpage with a submission form (saving text on a wiki, writing an email, submitting a forum post and so on): | ||
* '''Copying text''': Right before you submit text into a website, copy it into the copy buffer by doing the following steps: | * '''Copying text''': Right before you submit text into a website, copy it into the copy buffer by doing the following steps: | ||
*# "Select All" text: This is done by either (1) pressing CTRL-A, or (2) right clicking in the Edit window to get a popup menu and choosing "Select All". You will see all the text being selected. | *# "Select All" text: This is done by either (1) pressing CTRL-A, or (2) right clicking in the Edit window to get a popup menu and choosing "Select All". You will see all the text being selected. | ||