Copying text and URL's

sequitur

Is there a way to copy and paste or drag and drop text AND included URL's at the same time? I find that copying text and URL's results in the URL's not functioning. I've had to drag and drop the URL's one at a time. If there are only a few, it's not a problem; however, if there's a lot of them, it's a pain.



Suggestions?

marvin

Where are you pasting too? If you paste into an rtf in TextEdit for example, the formatting should stay with mixed URLs and text. It's great for saving portions of web pages.

sequitur

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Originally Posted by Marvin


Where are you pasting too? If you paste into an rtf in TextEdit for example, the formatting should stay with mixed URLs and text. It's great for saving portions of web pages.

I don't think I explained it correctly in my post. What I would like to do is something like this: I go to a website of interest. Mixed in with the text are links (words, not the actual URL) to other sites. I want to copy the article including the links, but when I try to copy and paste, I lose the links. I am trying to copy to an MS Word document, but it could be to TextEdit.

You suggested pasting into an RTF in TextEdit. When I highlight the area I want to copy, how do I make it an RTF? That's not one of my choices....or am I misinterpreting what you mean?

teedoff087

Just open TextEdit and paste it into the document (TextEdit uses RTF by default). When you copy from Safari (or whatever browser you're using) into TextEdit, it retains the formatting from the webpage, including the links that you copied.

sequitur

Thanks Marvin and teedoff087,



That does what I wanted. I should have just gone ahead and done what you suggested in the first place.

I thought it couldn't be that easy and didn't try it the first time figuring there HAD to be another step. It didn't occur to me that, as you said, TextEdit uses RTF by default. I kept trying to change to RTF before pasting into TextEdit.