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Question - Efficiently cutting and pasting between Topics?

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:34 pm
by pehendrix
Petko - is it possible to have a "second instance' of MyInfo open at the same time as the first? It would make it much easier to cut and past from one topic to another.

Alternatively, is it possible to show two topics side-by-side, and to cut and paste from one to the other quickly and easily?

ALT-TAB is the fasttest keyboard shortcut I've found - allowing two instances (as in NoteTab) allows one to quickly cut from, say, a file w/ background docs, to an Outline topic as one writes.

Thanks.

Phil

Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:11 pm
by Ralph
Try this. Open explorer to where your topic is stored and make a copy of it.
Then open the copy with the original and then use the menu to Window and tile either horizontally or vertically or cascade -- your choice.

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:22 pm
by wsp
Alternatively, is it possible to show two topics side-by-side, and to cut and paste from one to the other quickly and easily?
Yes, open both topics, then Window > Tile Vertically [or Horizontally].

Window tiling helpful; Suggestion for Windows | Tile

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:48 pm
by pehendrix
Thanks... the vertical tiling works perfectly, and makes it much easier to cut and paste from one topic to another.

The only drawback is when there are multiple topics open, Windows | Tile tiles all the open topics. To work with just two topics it appears as though one has to either minimize or close the other topics. It would be nice to be able to choose the two topics one would like to appear side-by-side, and not have to manually close or minimize the others.

Phil

Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:41 am
by wsp
Yes, I agree: it's slightly awkward when you have several topics open. But what I feel even more strongly about is the need to tile two or more documents within the same topic. I often want to compare two documents in one topic, or to copy information from one to another. That kind of tiling can't be done in MyInfo.