I know I write a lot about my thoughts and extracurricular activities, but I do spend a lot of time working, too! Now, I need to spend a little less time, though, since I've discovered Google Docs' Web Clipboard. Basically, I create a lot of my school documents using Google Docs these days. (I'd prefer to use LaTeX and various other Open Source tools, but I need to be able to share my work with people who aren't savvy with that. Ah well.) I use Google Draw to create a lot of diagrams. If you try to copy/paste a diagram from there into a Google Spreadsheet, or even into another drawing, though, you just get text! You lose the structure! It's horrible!
Well, hooray, apparently Google Docs has a Web Clipboard. Instead of going to the Edit menu or using the keyboard to copy/paste items, click on the copy/paste icon on the toolbar and use "Copy ... to web clipboard." Then, you can go to a new document, click that copy/paste icon, and there'll be a new, named item representing what you've copied from that other document. Pasting it retains the structure, too: HOORAY!
I wish this was part of the default Edit menu. I don't usually expect the buttons to have options that the text menus don't. It's just not typically done. Anyway, this will save me from having to create drawings, then saving them as PNG (not even SVG!) and then re-uploading them into other documents (quelle horreur!). Whee!
Well, hooray, apparently Google Docs has a Web Clipboard. Instead of going to the Edit menu or using the keyboard to copy/paste items, click on the copy/paste icon on the toolbar and use "Copy ... to web clipboard." Then, you can go to a new document, click that copy/paste icon, and there'll be a new, named item representing what you've copied from that other document. Pasting it retains the structure, too: HOORAY!
I wish this was part of the default Edit menu. I don't usually expect the buttons to have options that the text menus don't. It's just not typically done. Anyway, this will save me from having to create drawings, then saving them as PNG (not even SVG!) and then re-uploading them into other documents (quelle horreur!). Whee!
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