topic Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe in Recipes

No Way To Copy A Recipe

luvsbulldogs — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:27:50 GMT

If anyone figures out how to copy or print out a recipe please let me know. I copied a recipe and went to Word ad pasted it and it has a bright yellow background. That sure would use up a lot of ink.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Peedge — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:44:21 GMT

Highlight the recipe (using your mouse and left button), then hit the Control + C keys (that copy's) then go to your word document or where ever you want to paste the recipe then hit the Control + V keys.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Chrystaltree2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:24:37 GMT

I just copied a recipe......you do it the same way we did it on the old board. Highlight, right click, paste.

My Corned Beef Sauce with Linquini Recipe:

Ingredients:

1 lb linguini pasta, or pasta of your choice.

2 cans Libby's corned beef

1 large can crushed tomatoes.

1 medium size can tomato puree.

Water if needed to thin out the sauce.

Some tomato paste, and I squeeze from the tube.

Spices and seasonings used are Red Pepper Flakes,

dried Dill Weed, dried Mint, Oregano, and some Cavendar's

Greek Seasoning.

Directions:

Boil the water and add some oil and salt if preferred.

When it comes to a rolling boil add your linguini and stir well.

Leave it to come to a second boil and then lower the heat and

gently simmer, stirring often until you have reached your desired

tenderness. I cook ours for about 12 minutes total after it comes to

a second boil.

For the Corned Beef Sauce:

Place all the ingredients into your sauce pot except for the 2 cans corned beef.

Place the sauce on a low simmer and when it begins to simmer then slowly with a fork break the canned corned beef into small and larger chunks.

Add into the sauce carefully not to burn yourself, or use a bowl and break the

corned beef into large and small chunks and then slowly add into the sauce pot.

Keep your heat very low so the sauce just cooks through and gets hot, and do not stir the corned beef sauce at all or you may just break the larger chucks and they will no longer remain chunky.

Drain pasta and serve with the corned beef sauce and enjoy.

(Great for leftovers too)

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Harpa — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:31:46 GMT

Yes, you can print them. Click on the post with the recipe and click the 3 dots and you should find where it says to print.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

luvsbulldogs — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 23:06:12 GMT

I can copy and paste but could not paste in Microsoft Word without getting a bright yellow background which sure would use a lot of ink considering I want to print them. Since then I figured it out. You go up to OPTIONS and click on there........on my screen it is the top right side......then click on printer friendly and copy and paste from there. Then go to WORD and paste

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

kitty4me — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:14:48 GMT

OH my? I hope I can figure this out?

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

CaliKat — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:36:28 GMT

I copied and pasted into "Word Pad", and then saved it. It worked for me the same way it always has. I left click on my cursor, and hold down, while I move my cursor over what I want to copy. Then right click to "open window", and left click on the word "copy". Then go to where you want to paste it, and right click again to "open window", then click on the word "paste". I hope this helps. I can't help you with printing as I have never done that. Good luck!

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

luvsbulldogs — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:19:42 GMT

The only problem I was having was the background was yellow after pasting so I figured that out by using the printer friendly button on here ....see my post earlier.....and the go from there the usual way. After pasting all I do is click on PRINT in WORD and it prints.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

luvsbulldogs — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 01:37:15 GMT

@Harpa wrote:
Yes, you can print them. Click on the post with the recipe and click the 3 dots and you should find where it says to print.

Harpa, where are the three dots? I have looked everywhere and do not see any dots.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Eliana — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:09:21 GMT

I'm not Harpa, but I'll answer. Look at the top right corner of the box the recipe is posted in. There are three dots. Click on them. It'll give you options there.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Adelina — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:12:30 GMT

You can use the Bookmark feature for this:

How do I use bookmarks?

Bookmarks enable you to list community content (boards, articles, ideas, topics, or individual posts) on a special page so you can easily find it again.

To bookmark a piece of content:

Go to the item you want to bookmark.
To bookmark a location, choose (Location) Options > Bookmark this ....
To bookmark a specific post, go to the post and choose (Post) Options > Bookmark this ....

To view and manage your bookmarks:

Go to My Settings > Subscriptions & Notifications.
Click My Bookmarks.
You can click a bookmark to go to the item.

To delete a bookmark, click the check box for the bookmark and click Bookmark Options > Delete Selected Bookmarks.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:44:11 GMT

Oh no, I must be blind because I can't see 3 dots anyplace. Do you think they are not showing because I'm viewing with my iPhone? Sadly, I'm not tech savvy at all.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:46:13 GMT

I tried replying here and my post got put somewhere else. Might of been a system glitch but This new format is hard for me.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:47:21 GMT

I'm trying to post on recipies and it keeps showing up here!!!! SO frustrated with this new forum. I give up !!!!!!

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:54:16 GMT

So sorry, I apologize To everyone. It was posting correctly. I just thought it wasn't. I just got really confused ( and frustrated) by this new format for a minute. Sorry!

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

ChynnaBlue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:42:54 GMT

@luvsbulldogs wrote:
@Harpa wrote:
Yes, you can print them. Click on the post with the recipe and click the 3 dots and you should find where it says to print.

Harpa, where are the three dots? I have looked everywhere and do not see any dots.

They are at the top of every post to the right of the post title. Click them to gtet options to print a post or email it to someone, including yourseldf. Here's a picture of the dots on another post:

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:47:05 GMT

Thank you very much.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

turquoise blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 16:57:55 GMT

When I view using the mobile version with my iPhone the forum layout looks quite different and there are no dots showing. But if I view the full version on my iPhone it's a whole different looking set up and also the dots are there. I'm pretty sure that's what's happening.

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

Honeybit — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:42:52 GMT

@luvsbulldogs wrote:
The only problem I was having was the background was yellow after pasting so I figured that out by using the printer friendly button on here ....see my post earlier.....and the go from there the usual way. After pasting all I do is click on PRINT in WORD and it prints.

luvsbulldogs, I remembered seeing your post about the Yellow Blocks the first day I came to the new Forum. I discovered by accident last night that I get completely different results copying into Word when I'm logged into the Forum and when I'm not logged in. When I'm not logged in, I DO get the yellow blocks; when I am logged in my copied text is all centered and has bunches of extra spaces and hyper-links (and takes FOREVER to copy -- with Word complaining about "many different styles.") When I'm not logged in, the copy is quick. So far I haven't figured out what it is in my Preferences that makes the different in formatting.

Either way, formatting my saved recipes is going to be AMP (A Major Pain) under the new format (and I do like to keep the replies with the post). I'll post again if I stumble across any new information.

If you print from WORD, you can edit out the yellow background before you print to save ink, but still makes a bunch of extra steps. I'm REALLY glad I didn't join QVC until right after the last major format change!

ETA: I tried the "Printer Friendly" option you found, but it doesn't include the Reply Number (Message 5 of 25 -- for example) which I do use in my own personal recipe filing system. Win some formatting, lose some formatting. SIGH!

Re: No Way To Copy A Recipe

sfnative — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:48:00 GMT

Hi luvsbulldogs,

When having this darn problem, proceed with the following to get rid of the yellow.

1. After you've copied your recipe into Word and you're looking at the yellow background, highlight the entire recipe.

2. Now look at the tool bars above the text. Look toward the middle and you'll see the word "Paragraph." Above this word from left to right are page justification icons: left, center, right & margin to margin.

3. To the right of these you'll see an icon for line spacing: it has an up arrow and down arrow.

4.******Next up is the icon you NEED to get rid of the yellow. It looks like a tiny bucket of paint, slightly tipping so that a bit of paint is dripping out. Click on the little down arrow to open up this icon.

5. Now you have before you a color palette. Go down to "No Color" and click on it. The yellow will go away (because you've highlighted the recipe with the yellow background).

6. If you ever want to provide a color background, you now know where to go.

Hope this helps. ~Rebecca