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So, did the �scientist� buy a couple of bags of lead shot out of the department budget, and sprinkle it a few paces from where they pulled in his prius? Mr. scientist leans back and points his grad assistant to the perfect spot to take some soil samples, they can extrapolate for the rest of the field later.

I have no idea if it�s still taken down, but soar raptors used to show a �bragg�in� X-ray of a supposed public land gut pile from a hunter harvested deer. It showed well north of a hundred individual pieces of lead in it. Maybe, even too far fetched for the �scientists�?

dammit! working on a long response and poof! all gone. What the hell am I doing wrong? This happens on other forums also.
Help!!

The only solution I've found for that is to save your work as you're writing. That leads to what can be a significant number of corrections indicated in your post as you go, but... at least you don't lose everything.

Every once in a while type CtrlA followed by CtrlC. The first highlights everything in the dialog box you are typing in. The second copies everything that is highlighted. If you do that before hitting Submit, you will have your final and complete version copied to your clipboard.

If everything is lost, then reopen a reply box. Click on it so the cursor is blinking in the dialog box and then type CtrlX and it will paste in the last thing you copied to your clipboard. Hit submit and you should be good to go.

Hope that helps but I am sure we all know your aggravation.

OR Type it in Word and then copy and paste here

Great explanation Brent. I think control V pastes not control X.

Yes, Control V pastes. Control X cuts (and copies to clipboard).

Sorry about that.

With a Mac you can also hold down "Command" and press "C", then to paste hold down "Command" and press "V".

To copy and paste a link you click on the web address box at the top of the page and it highlights it in blue. Then you copy and paste as usual.

To copy some text you click at the beginning of it and drag down as far as you want to copy, then release the mouse. It will highlight all you "drug" over. Takes a little practice sometimes to get the highlighting to end where you want it to.

One other thing I learned ........ if you're typing a reply, and you suddenly lose the page, click on the "back" arrow ( looks like this < ) at the upper left of the screen. It will often take you right back to the reply page you were typing. It's saved me from retyping stuff many times.

SRH

As Mike pointed out, Word with automatic back up makes a great draft platform for cutting and pasting. Another is Gmail. Compose in a Gmail message and cut and paste when completed. Gmail backs up text every few seconds or so and saves it in Draft mode. Gil

Just types CtlA, it highlighted. Then Ctlx and everything disappeared. Nothing showed in Preview Post. Guess I'll just use my email program and cut past from a new message.