[Papyrus-L] windows 2000...again

[Raisa Deber]

At 04:22 PM 3/3/2002 +0000, Doina Gherghel wrote:
>Hi there! Please tell me, is there any possibility to paste my Papyrus 
>citations in a word file, under windows 2000? It seems that the usual 
>Ctrl-V maneuver does not work anymore. Moreover, I don't get the usual 
>message: save on windows clipboard. Could somebody help me?
>Thanks!

It's fairly easy.  The control+V doesn't work because Windows 2000 doesn't 
access the clipboard in the same way as the older windows versions.  So, 
use a disk file instead.  (OS2 and NT required the same workaround.)   In 
the preferences window, go to os2/nt clipboard, then indicate you want to 
use a disk file, then give it a name.  (I don't like the Papyrus default - 
I use c:/pap/cited.txt, but you can put it anywhere that's convenient, 
including in your documents and settings, if you're so inclined).  Then you 
can use it in citations, etc.  From whatever file you're working in, then 
just insert the file, telling Word (or wordperfect) to convert it from 
ASCII.  You could do a macro, but I find direct insertion just as easy, and 
I don't have to mess with replying to the prompts the word processor likes 
to use.  Let me know if you have any problems.

Now, what I haven't figured out how to do is to insert things from other 
documents INTO my papyrus files.  I suspect if I messed around with windows 
rather than full screen, etc. there might be a workaround, but I haven't 
bothered taking the time to figure it out.  Besides which, anyone in vision 
science can appreciate that nearsighted individuals are darned if we'll be 
trying to read the fonts in a window.
Cheers
Raisa Deber



>Dr. Doina Gherghel
>Vision Sciences
>Aston University
>Birmingham
>B4 7ET
>UK
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Raisa B. Deber, PhD
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
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Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
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