"How do you copy and paste on this forum? "

If you are refering to photos, you can use Ctrl-A to copy and Ctrl-V to paste into other documents. etc but pasting into MEW does not work. Instead you have to upload photos to an album in your account and then link that to your post.

Procedure shown here: **LINK**

How to post photos is a common question on this site. Why is there not an easy to find link on the home page ???

Paul.

It rather depends on what operating system you have? Windows, Andrroid, Mac?

Simply highlighting text (with a double tap on the screen) is enough to make the process simple to follow on my screen.

Absolutely no different than any screen, whatever forum etc, for my ‘puter.

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Admittedly not the ‘home’ page, Paul … but the landing page for the Forum:

All Forum Topics has an easy to find list of Website FAQs

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/

Top of that list, and sticky, seems a reasonable-enough place to look.

MichaelG.

[ Noting that’s not actually the problem currently in question ]

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 14/02/2020 07:29:36

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I get a similar message on the Mac [running Safari, in el Capitan] … but, if I recall correctly, it only appears if I am trying to paste something into the hyperlink creation box.

As the message indicates: It’s a browser issue [but I know no more than that]

… it doesn’t happen on the iPad though.

MichaelG.

I get the same on the Firefox browser if I use the paste button on the context menu. Holding down the ctrl key on the keyboard while pressing the v key works just fine. That is an operating system function and bypasses the browser functions.

Russell

A classic example of convenience colliding with security!

The security problem in this example is Browsers and Websites running certain Apps or script tools, especially Javascript, can't tell the difference between a mouse click entered by a real human being and a mouse click generated in software by malware. Forcing the user to paste by entering the ctrl-v keyboard combination guarantees a real person is in control, rather some dodgy code Silly Old Duffer naively downloaded from a website run by the Mafia!

Very unusual for any web service serious about security to allow passwords to be cut, copied or pasted. They have to be typed in by a human. Others are strict about all data entry. In private doing local stuff on your own computer – word processing, spreadsheets, email etc, – there's no harm in mouse pasting. It's being on the web that makes pasting unwise.

There are ways of re-enabling click pasting on the web but it's not wise to bypass a sensible security measure just to avoid typing ctrl-v. Doing so is roughly equivalent to leaving your car engine running while you pop into a shop…

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 14/02/2020 12:07:34

How do you copy and paste on this forum?

Highlight, <ctrl>-C then <ctrl>-V

Just like every other version of Windows?

Neil

⌘+c then ⌘+v

Russell