To stop your posts from flinging into cyberspace, when you are finished, slide to the top of your message. Move the cursor to the left of the first letter of the first word. Left click (so that it's active there) and keep your finger down on the mouse button. Without lifting your finger up, pull the mouse down and to the right. The text of your post turns blue. Drag down to the bottom of your message box by moving the cursor below the bottom of it into the yellow are and wait for the entire message to be covered in blue.
When the entire message is in blue let go of the left mouse button.
Now without touching any buttons, move your cursor up into the blue area. It must be over any blue area. Now right click with the right mouse button and lift your finger off that button.
Without having either finger on either mouse button move the cursor over the word 'copy' and once it is over that word left click the mouse.
You now have a copy on your clipboard of your post.
Now post your message. If it posts forget about this because you won't need it. If it doesn't, the sign out and sign back in again, go to the thread you want, go down to the message input box. Click into it so the cursor is in the upper left corner. Right click your mouse to access the menu. You will now see the word 'paste' highlighted. Move your cursor over that word and left click.
Hey presto! The message that got lost was copied to your clipboard and even if you had to bring up the AS board again - it will be there as long as nothing else copies over top or you turn off your computer.
This happens to me all the time. When we've written something and are satisfied with it, it's important to us not to lose it.
You can practise right here while you can see the directions. Practise blue highlighting any piece of this and go down into the message entry area and paste. You don't have to send it. Just practise. Move up to the section of instructions you want to understand and practice right on those words.
Happy to answer questions.
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This works in many places. Right click on a picture anywhere in a website and you may be able to copy it either directly to a folder such as your 'pictures' folder - or you can open one of the utility programs and save it there.
Under 'Programs' in the "Accessories" folder are useful utilities.
You can use Paint where if you have copied a picture onto the clipboard you can paste it into there and save it in a variety of formats.
Also here is Notepad and Wordpad. Wordpad is the a bit fancier. When you copy anything by using your right mouse button - it is actually copied into Notepad which your computer opens in the background.
If you ever want to save something you've written perhaps to paste it into some other correspondence later or to have that option - then open Notepad, paste your copied material onto it, save it with a unique name and later you can double click on it (say by saving it in your 'documents' folder) and you can past that at your leisure into whatever application you want.
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Hope this helps people who lose their posts. It must be done before hitting 'send'.
You can also use this when people put links into posts. Like Nikki did about Jan Peterson:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6601253n
Move your cursor above the 'h' in 'http' above. Holding down the left mouse button scroll to the right covering the entire line (make sure you also have that first 'h' in blue) Now move your cursor over the blue area anywhere and right click. Move your cursor over the word 'copy' and left click. You now have that address on your clipboard.
Now move up to the very top of your screen where there is a bar entitled 'http://thealzheimerspouse...' Left click on that bar. The entire address will turn blue. Now anywhere over that blue right click your mouse. The menu now includes the command 'paste'. Move the cursor over the word 'paste' and left click. Now hit the 'enter' key on your keyboard.
When you're done and you want to come back click on the back button on the extreme upper left of your screen. It's a blue area facing left. That will take you back to this site.