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February 14, 2008

If you are using a paper notebook, journal or diary (NJD)  to record your career/lifework planning thoughts and actvities, then you can PRINT the post you were just looking at and PASTE it into your NJD.

If you use a computer, then you can SELECT and COPY any portion of the text you saw in that post and PASTE it into a file (MS Word doc, Google Docs, etc. ) on your computer.

If you have an LWPS account, you can use the following instructions to COPY/PASTE the post into your personal career/lifework planning blog.

LWPS offers a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor.  You can find that option in your "Account Settings" (upper right corner) at the bottom of that webpage. The WYSIWYG editor is defaulted to "Yes". You can switch this to "No" or "Yes" as often as you wish.

The WYSIWYG editor makes it (very) easy to create posts, particularly by COPYing all or portions of other posts and PASTEing them into your posts and editing them to your liking. Note: We encourage you to provide a link back to the COPIED post with an attribution to acknowledge that author's work.

You can COPY an entire post and PASTE it into a new or edited post and retain most of the formatting except complete URLs in hyperlinks.

  1. First, select (highlight) the text you want to COPY.
  2. Then press Ctrl and C together to do the COPY (If a MAC, use Cmd and C)
    1. Ctrl X (MAC, Cmd X) CUTs selected text.
  3. Then go to you new or edited post and locate where you want to PASTE your clipboard.
  4. PASTE using Ctrl and V (MAC, Cmd and V)
  5. Fixing hyperlinks
    1. You must change the URLs in all hyperlinks. Just go back to the post that you want to link to, COPY its URL, then click on the "Insert/edit link" button above and PASTE the URL in the "Link URL" box.
    2. If there is a Table of Contents in your post, you must edit it after you COPY/PASTE it into your new post by doing the following.
      1. An anchor is the location where one will go when they click on the link for that anchor. Links to anchors are preceeded by a pound sign "#'. Find each occurrence of a link to an anchor and remove all text between "Href=" and "#". For example, here is a partial example of an invalid link to an anchor - <a href="../3585.html#awareness">. Here is what that link should look like - <a href="#awareness">. "../3585 .html" must be removed. If there are multiple "(Top, Bot)" links, change the first one, press UPDATE to save yoru changes, then COPY the "(Top, Bot)" you changed and PASTE it over the remaining (Top, Bot)" links. (We will submit a bug report to the developer of this WYSIWYG code.) 

If you prefer editing the source text and html codes, either select the "Html" link in the command bar in the editor, or change the editor option to "No".

Please do not duplicate posts. Link to them instead. Remember that one of the purposes of LWPS is to promote social learning and collaboration. Plus, unnecessary posts in your blogs increases your storage use and thus may trigger a request for a donation. (See the "Tip Jar" link above.)


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Posted by Pete Hubbard (LWPS Founder) @ New member!

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