Hi there! Welcome to OSU Drupal Droplets!
This is Joe Fenn with Oregon State
University's Web and Mobile Services and
today we are going to continue our
exploration of CKEditor by learning how
to copy and paste text into the editor.
So, you can actually copy stuff from
several different sources. For example,
you can copy text from a PDF, or a
Microsoft Word document, or another
webpage on some other website somewhere.
Something to consider while you're doing
this is you don't want to copy embedded
items such as pictures or tables or
spreadsheets because what happens is
when you paste it in it gets interpreted
in a weird way. For example, an embedded
image in a Microsoft document will
actually interpret it as feet and feet
and feet of code in the background.
Depending on the size of the image, it
can actually end up hanging up and crashing
your browser...so that is not the right
way to do it.
We will instruct you on how to properly
embed objects in future tutorials so for
the purpose of just copying and pasting
things make sure that all you are
copying and pasting is text. So, with that
being said, let's go ahead and jump into
an ipsum generator and grab some text. So, we'll just do a little copy job here and
I'm using Command C to copy. I don't have
a mouse here on my laptop. If you are
on a PC it would be CTRL C, or if you
have a mouse you can just use your mouse
to copy. Come back to our page and click
the Edit tab and once the edit form
appears, come on down to our text editor
and then I'm going to press Command V to
paste the text in if you are on a PC
you would press CTRL V or if you're a
mouse you would just mouse paste it in.
So, when you use your mouse to paste
things, you'll actually get a dialog
box to paste into so don't be
surprised by that. So, as you can see,
we've got all our text pasted into
here and then we just scroll down and
click our Save button and there's our
text! No big surprises here. So this has
been Joe Fenn
with Oregon State University's Web and Mobile Services and I hope to see you
for future tutorials!
