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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. Here are the | 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. Here are some tips for reducing the chances of your work being lost: | ||
* 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. | ||
*# Copy the text into the copy buffer by pressing (1) CTRL-INSERT (Windows) or (2) right clicking in the Edit window to get the popup menu and click "Copy". | *# Copy the text into the copy buffer by pressing (1) CTRL-INSERT (Windows) or (2) right clicking in the Edit window to get the popup menu and click "Copy". | ||
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*# The quickest way in Windows is: (1) CTRL-A to select all text (2) CTRL-INSERT to copy the text | *# The quickest way in Windows is: (1) CTRL-A to select all text (2) CTRL-INSERT to copy the text | ||
* Submit: You can now submit the text to the website using the Save/Submit button. | * Submit: You can now submit the text to the website using the Save/Submit button. | ||
* Restoring text: If there's a submission error, you can now either press Back (usually works in Firefox but not IE) and get your text back, or if the browser does not restore the text for you, you can now press SHIFT-INSERT to paste the text. If by mistake you press CTRL-INSERT at this point, you will lose the copied text. So when you are pasting text, always make sure you are pressing doing a paste (Edit->Paste, or SHIFT-INSERT). | ** If you see an "Edit Conflict" you text is saved at the bottom of that edit page. Scroll to the bottom to find another text box named "Your text" which has the text you tried to submit. You can copy that text and re-submit it. | ||
* '''Restoring text''': If there's a submission error, you can now either press Back (usually works in Firefox but not IE) and get your text back, or if the browser does not restore the text for you, you can now press SHIFT-INSERT to paste the text. If by mistake you press CTRL-INSERT at this point, you will lose the copied text. So when you are pasting text, always make sure you are pressing doing a paste (Edit->Paste, or SHIFT-INSERT). | |||
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