drag and drop!

@trinihd (996)
United States
March 20, 2007 6:30pm CST
I have discovered something I wish someone would have told me about before so I am sharing it in the hopes that the information will be useful to someone else besides me! :-) I recently complained that while I understand the need to restrict the 'copy and pasters', I would really like it if there could be a distinction between pasting content from outside and copying and pasting your own text that you just typed in the box and wanted to rearrange...and I have finally discovered that it can be done! Yay! Not by "cutting and pasting" but by "selecting then dragging and dropping". See that smiley above. I dragged him from this paragraph to the first paragraph! So now, rearranging my thoughts will be a lot easier, and you may find that I am more coherent than usual! lol I hope other people find this information useful! Drag and drop away!
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Julia3269
@Julia3269 (217)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Interesting. Let me . ... ... try that It worked! I originally wrote, "Let me try that." I highlighted 'try that' and dragged it below the dots. Cool. Thanks. :)
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trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
20 Mar 07
You're welcome! I am so glad it is useful for others too!!
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trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
31 May 07
You're right, bitterly_sweet....apparently it was a glitch which mylot has now corrected. I can no longer drag and drop! It sucks now! I am going to have to aim for my 500 posts! Let's all try to make 500! :)
Bitterly_sweet
@Bitterly_sweet (7)
• Pakistan
15 May 07
Well i have tried it just now but... the same old message box appeared " 500 & up to drag & drop!" any way .... think of some thing new with which I can copy & past Cause I am a really slow typer! yup! Thanx...
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villageanne
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
29 Apr 07
This is really interesting. I had no idea that you could do that. I will have to try it. Hey it worked...I just now copied and drag the statement from your article..Drag and drop away! No I know how those people cheat that take part of my discussion as their comment when they dont have 500 points yet. Very intereting. Thanks for the tip
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villageanne
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
29 Apr 07
That should read "now I know" not "no I know" It is nearly 1 AM and I should get to bed. LOL
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trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
30 Apr 07
OMG, you just made an entirely new discovery for me...I didn't realise you could drag and drop like that too!! So "Thank YOU!" for the tip!! I thought you could only drag and drop your own text!! Now I know I can actually quote part of other people's discussions in my reply to them without having to type it over, but I won't do it like those people you mentioned do...only if I want to reference a line or something! lol Thanks again!
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ezdollarincome
@ezdollarincome (217)
• Philippines
29 Apr 07
Thank you for the information. I really had that problem before but now you shared it to us then this will be a lot easier now.
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trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
30 Apr 07
"Thank you for the information." You're welcome! I am glad it is useful for you!
trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
31 May 07
Only now it isn't useful because mylot has done something to get rid of our beloved "drag & drop"!! Oh well, it was fun while it lasted...now we have to try and get 500 posts really soon! lol
KarenO52
@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Thank you, that will certainly help me out. I've been backspacing and typing over.
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trinihd
@trinihd (996)
• United States
20 Mar 07
You're welcome! Yeah that's what I have been doing too and it was very annoying to have to retype stuff so that it is in the right place in the paragraph!
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