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When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed |
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On 6/8/2012 8:53 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed I don't see any difference and I'd be glad of an answer too :-) -- Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD) Extraneous "not" in Reply To. |
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../ff678296.aspx "The right-click shortcut menu includes additional options that allow you to copy the current address to the Clipboard. Click Copy Address to save the location in a format that is optimized for copying and pasting folders in Windows Explorer or use Copy Address As Text if you plan to paste the folder path into a document." On 6/8/2012 7:53 AM, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer
wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see any of those choices. |
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On 6/8/2012 7:31 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see any of those choices. Ken, WINDOWS EXPLORER! -- “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” ? Robert A. Heinlein |
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"Ed Cryer" wrote in message ... When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. When I tried this same experiment I used Word instead of notepad in case there was maybe some formatting or other properties that notepad would ignore. There is something as when I choose "copy address" and then go into Word and paste I get a popup "Word cannot obtain the data for C:\users\the_rest_of_the_path" (obviously I edited that last part). When I click OK to clear the message the address is pasted into Word as expected. So now knowing that there is something different... made a temp folder to experiment with. Went back to original Windows Explorer window and chose copy as text. Went to new folder, right clicked and paste was not an available option. Went back to first window and this time chose copy address (without the as text). Now when I went into my other folder and right-clicked paste was an option and when I chose it Windows started to copy the folder whose address I had copied. |
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On 08/06/2012 13:53, Ed Cryer wrote:
When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed Try 1), then right-clickpaste inside a new folder. It will copy the contents of the original address. In other words, 1) is the same as right-clickcopy on a folder. -- Rob |
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Seth wrote:
"Ed Cryer" wrote in message ... When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. When I tried this same experiment I used Word instead of notepad in case there was maybe some formatting or other properties that notepad would ignore. There is something as when I choose "copy address" and then go into Word and paste I get a popup "Word cannot obtain the data for C:\users\the_rest_of_the_path" (obviously I edited that last part). When I click OK to clear the message the address is pasted into Word as expected. So now knowing that there is something different... made a temp folder to experiment with. Went back to original Windows Explorer window and chose copy as text. Went to new folder, right clicked and paste was not an available option. Went back to first window and this time chose copy address (without the as text). Now when I went into my other folder and right-clicked paste was an option and when I chose it Windows started to copy the folder whose address I had copied. Nice one! I should have thought of that. So then, the difference is obvious now. Thank you, Ed |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:48:10 -0700, Bob Hatch
wrote: On 6/8/2012 7:31 AM, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see any of those choices. Ken, WINDOWS EXPLORER! I saw that, too, and here I was, not so long ago, suggesting that Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer were good names. I still do, but now I see how people confuse them. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko |
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Thought you might be confused about MSFT's nomenclature ? Windows vs. Internet Explorer But after reading the other thread on MSFT's multi-similar-naming applications it looks more like a tongue-in-cheek reply to add some humor to this thread. -- ....winston msft mvp mail "Ken Blake" wrote in message ... On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see any of those choices. |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:48:10 -0700, Bob Hatch
wrote: On 6/8/2012 7:31 AM, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see any of those choices. Ken, WINDOWS EXPLORER! Oops! Sorry, I (obviously) read it wrong. |
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:59:32 -0400, "...winston"
wrote: Thought you might be confused about MSFT's nomenclature ? Windows vs. Internet Explorer But after reading the other thread on MSFT's multi-similar-naming applications it looks more like a tongue-in-cheek reply to add some humor to this thread. I wish I could say it was tongue-in-cheek, but alas, I simply read it wrong. It wasn't Microsoft's nomenclature, it was just me making a simple mistake. Sorry. |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:16:20 +0100, Rob
wrote: On 08/06/2012 13:53, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed Try 1), then right-clickpaste inside a new folder. It will copy the contents of the original address. In other words, 1) is the same as right-clickcopy on a folder. Thanks to you and Seth for unraveling the mystery. But shame on Microsoft for not having the names of the two choices do a much better job of explaining what the differences were. As an example of better choices: Copy address Copy contents of folder |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:57:05 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:59:32 -0400, "...winston" wrote: Thought you might be confused about MSFT's nomenclature ? Windows vs. Internet Explorer But after reading the other thread on MSFT's multi-similar-naming applications it looks more like a tongue-in-cheek reply to add some humor to this thread. I wish I could say it was tongue-in-cheek, but alas, I simply read it wrong. It wasn't Microsoft's nomenclature, it was just me making a simple mistake. Sorry. Yeah, but... If one was called Browser and the other File Fetcher, would you have made that error? Disclaimer: even in that case, I might have made that slip :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:08:45 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:16:20 +0100, Rob wrote: On 08/06/2012 13:53, Ed Cryer wrote: When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get four options; Copy address Copy address as text Edit address Delete history What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into a Notepad. Ed Try 1), then right-clickpaste inside a new folder. It will copy the contents of the original address. In other words, 1) is the same as right-clickcopy on a folder. Thanks to you and Seth for unraveling the mystery. But shame on Microsoft for not having the names of the two choices do a much better job of explaining what the differences were. As an example of better choices: Copy address Copy contents of folder That is *not* the Microsoft way ....apparently. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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