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Lori Olson White's avatar

@Savanna you just made my WEEK, and it’s only Sunday 😉

Seriously, this hack is going to save me so much time! Like you, a lot of my research leads to PDFs and other non-copy-able formats, which I end up typing in, errors and all.

Thanks!

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Lynda Heines's avatar

Good info. Thanks. On the Mac it's Command Shift 4

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Paula Collins's avatar

Thank you for this reminder. I just started using the PRTSCRN for work and this is the same idea and I keep forgetting about using it. T

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ConferenceKeeper by Tami Mize's avatar

Even easier is using Microsoft’s PowerToys Ctrl + shift + T, drag the box around the type area and that’s it - the text is already in your clipboard. Just ctrl V

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Denyse Allen's avatar

It’s timesavers like these that make a huge difference!

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Jane Chapman's avatar

Great tip! Thank you!

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Nancy G. Carver's avatar

Real time saver. I have done this in google keep using the grab image text feature but this seems faster!

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Carmel's avatar

That’s what I use too

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Kyla Bayang's avatar

@Savanna, thank you so much for sharing this! Mind blown, runs off to spend the rest of the day using this for sooooo many citation text-pasteing tasks! You're my favorite genearockstar of the day!

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David Shaw's avatar

You had me at "easily copy."

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

Wow! Good to know!

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