Since T-bird is a Mozilla product, maybe you have to use the Control-C workaround you use for Firefox. That is, press F8 to start selection, move to the end of the text you want to select, press F8 to open the Select content dialog, Enter to select the default copy button, then Control-C to copy the text to the clipboard.
I don't use T-bird, so I can't try it myself, but it's worth a try, maybe. Also, I personally didn't like the hot key choice of F8 for Select Content, so I redefined the hot key to Shift-down arrow. I find that easier than counting keys twice across the top of the keyboard. Lou N. -----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 2:34 AM To: 'Lynn White'; [email protected] Subject: RE: F8 for selecting text Hi Lynn, and anyone who wants an easy way to copy the text of an email, All you have to do is press Control-A to select the entire message, Control-C to copy it all to the clipboard, and then Control-V to paste the whole thing where you want to go. I've tested this starting in an opened email message in Outlook 2010, finally pasting the entire text of the email into Notepad. This worked for me whether I am in our out of browse mode. Using this method, then, in a way, you have the old form of control you used to have over text. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Lynn White [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 10:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: F8 for selecting text I fully concur with this. It is slow and cumbersome if you want to copy things quickly. When I would send out messages using email and Facebook, I would copy the entire message into the clipboard from the email and then copy to Facebook. Is there a reason with Windows that you can no longer use the control-shift arrow commands? On 12/28/2014 6:51 PM, Chris Skarstad wrote: > Hi. I can definitely confirm this, usually what happens is when I > paste the text it's the last bit of text I copied to the clipboard > instead of what I just selected. Also, when it does actually work, > I've noticed that Window-eyes handles larger bits of text instead of > just a few characters. Sometimes if I'm on a web site and I have to > copy a little bit of text like some kind of number, that doesn't get > selected. But if I have to select a larger bit of text, like several > sentences on a web page or an email that seems to work ok. I'm not > sure why this is, but it's what i've seen since the whole idea of > using f8 to select text got started. It's not very reliable, and I > seriously wish we could go back to the old way, or at least we should > be given a choice of methods to use. > > > > > > > > On 12/28/2014 7:12 PM, Don H wrote: >> Running beta 3 on a win 7 64 machine and latest Thunderbird. When >> trying to use the F8 function to select text in a Email message >> everything seems to go correctly but when trying to paste the >> selected text I either get the wrong text or no text at all. >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your >> message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your >> message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You >> can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> >> > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your > message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You > can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
