Apols if I’m picking up on an old thread which you may have already found the answers to (but I have only just found out this morning, from help offered elsewhere on this forum, how to adjust the text size myself)… i.e. adjust it with CTRL together with + or - … amazingly simple &like so many things- ‘obvious’ if you already know, so I thought I’d mention it to my wife in case she hadn’t picked this tip up and found out that she’s “known that one forever”!
Unfortunately, I don’t know the answers to your other questions as I don’t know much about PC’s either… one of the best tips that the kids ever gave me was ‘just google it’… but when I tried that with your own hyperlink question, the advice from the following web-site worked fine in Word but not on this forum… who knows with this stuff?.. I think that sometimes this sort of snag is caused the browser that you are using but for the moment…I dunno!
You’re welcome, the tip to adjust font size via the keyboard shortcuts seemed particularly useful to me as I don’t always have a mouse handy when using the lap-top.
Hi Steve O,
I’m still trying to resolve the copy and paste question that you asked, largely because I have a similar snag. Don’t know if you are having exactly the same trouble as me but my problem seems to stem from using Firefox as a browser. This appears to be preventing me from inserting links to web pages on the MX5 Owners Club Forum when using the usual copy/paste CTRL+ C & CTRL+ V techniques.
Consequently, to eliminate other possibilities, I am currently logged in using Internet Explorer in trying to prove the problem sits with Firefox. The following link is looking more successful to me, to a web-site covering the above topic of keyboard short-cuts for font sizes.
I have still been digging away in the background on the subject of being unable to Copy & Paste. It seems that the problems I’ve been having ARE all due to using Mozilla Firefox as a browser. The default software settings in relatively recent versions of Firefox are set up’ for security’ to prevent copy / paste UNLESS you download certain add-ons (e.g. from Mozilla) or manually change some text instructions in your preference settings. (all a bit too deep for me as a PC novice).
There is an alternative ‘work-around’ trick which involves;-
1) copy the web-site URL address
2) paste it into a text editor (Word will do!)
3) hit return and then copy it again (CTRL + C) from there
4) & ultimately paste it (CTRL + V) wherever you originally wanted to put it… e.g. into your post on the MX5 Owners Club Forum!
5) Once you’ve pasted it, press the ‘linked chains’ button, slightly to the left of the smiley face in the MX5oc Post-a-reply page
6) This opens the Insert / Edit Link dialogue box… exit this by hitting the Update button & your done!
See following link to prove the above steps work (I’m currently back using Firefox again). This link gives some of the clues to adjusting your Firefox settings if you go down that route:-