Copy as text

When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
four options;
Copy address
Copy address as text
Edit address
Delete history

What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
into a Notepad.

Ed

On 6/8/2012 8:53 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
> into a Notepad.
>
> Ed
I don't see any difference and I'd be glad of an answer too :-)

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

Answer:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../ff678296.aspx

"The right-click shortcut menu includes additional options that allow
you to copy the current address to the Clipboard. Click Copy Address to
save the location in a format that is optimized for copying and pasting
folders in Windows Explorer or use Copy Address As Text if you plan to
paste the folder path into a document."


On 6/8/2012 7:53 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
> into a Notepad.
>
> Ed

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
> into a Notepad.


What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see
any of those choices.

On 6/8/2012 7:31 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
> wrote:
>
>> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
>> four options;
>> Copy address
>> Copy address as text
>> Edit address
>> Delete history
>>
>> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
>> into a Notepad.
>
>
> What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see
> any of those choices.
>

Ken, WINDOWS EXPLORER!

--
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man
to pay for what he does not want merely because
you think it would be good for him.”
? Robert A. Heinlein

"Ed Cryer" <> wrote in message
news:jqsskr$jjh$...
> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it into
> a Notepad.

When I tried this same experiment I used Word instead of notepad in case
there was maybe some formatting or other properties that notepad would
ignore. There is something as when I choose "copy address" and then go into
Word and paste I get a popup "Word cannot obtain the data for
C:\users\the_rest_of_the_path" (obviously I edited that last part). When I
click OK to clear the message the address is pasted into Word as expected.

So now knowing that there is something different... made a temp folder to
experiment with. Went back to original Windows Explorer window and chose
copy as text. Went to new folder, right clicked and paste was not an
available option. Went back to first window and this time chose copy
address (without the as text). Now when I went into my other folder and
right-clicked paste was an option and when I chose it Windows started to
copy the folder whose address I had copied.

On 08/06/2012 13:53, Ed Cryer wrote:
> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
> into a Notepad.
>
> Ed

Try 1), then right-click>paste inside a new folder. It will copy the
contents of the original address. In other words, 1) is the same as
right-click>copy on a folder.
--
Rob

Seth wrote:
>
> "Ed Cryer" <> wrote in message
> news:jqsskr$jjh$...
>> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you
>> get four options;
>> Copy address
>> Copy address as text
>> Edit address
>> Delete history
>>
>> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
>> into a Notepad.
>
> When I tried this same experiment I used Word instead of notepad in case
> there was maybe some formatting or other properties that notepad would
> ignore. There is something as when I choose "copy address" and then go
> into Word and paste I get a popup "Word cannot obtain the data for
> C:\users\the_rest_of_the_path" (obviously I edited that last part). When
> I click OK to clear the message the address is pasted into Word as
> expected.
>
> So now knowing that there is something different... made a temp folder
> to experiment with. Went back to original Windows Explorer window and
> chose copy as text. Went to new folder, right clicked and paste was not
> an available option. Went back to first window and this time chose copy
> address (without the as text). Now when I went into my other folder and
> right-clicked paste was an option and when I chose it Windows started to
> copy the folder whose address I had copied.
>
>

Nice one! I should have thought of that.
So then, the difference is obvious now.

Thank you,
Ed

On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:48:10 -0700, Bob Hatch <>
wrote:

>On 6/8/2012 7:31 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
>>> four options;
>>> Copy address
>>> Copy address as text
>>> Edit address
>>> Delete history
>>>
>>> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
>>> into a Notepad.
>>
>>
>> What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see
>> any of those choices.

>Ken, WINDOWS EXPLORER!

I saw that, too, and here I was, not so long ago, suggesting that
Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer were good names. I still do,
but now I see how people confuse them.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Thought you might be confused about MSFT's nomenclature ?
Windows vs. Internet Explorer

But after reading the other thread on MSFT's multi-similar-naming
applications it looks more like a tongue-in-cheek reply to add some humor
to this thread.

--
....winston
msft mvp mail


"Ken Blake" wrote in message
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:53:16 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

> When you right click on the top address bar of Windows Explorer you get
> four options;
> Copy address
> Copy address as text
> Edit address
> Delete history
>
> What's the difference between 1 and 2? If I do either I can paste it
> into a Notepad.


What version of IE are you asking about? With IE9 here, I don't see
any of those choices.