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How to copy text from Safari

By Parham Doustdar, 3 August, 2016

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Hi,

It sometimes happens that I'd like to copy something from a webpage into another window. How can I do this reliably?

Thanks.

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Shift-arrows

By mehgcap

6 years 6 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Just as in most other apps, you can use the shift key with the arrow keys and other modifiers to select. For instance, shift-down selects by line, shift-option-right selects by words, and so on. This is new as of OS X 10.11, I believe, so I'm assuming you have that. You could also move to the paragraph you want, then hit vo-shift-c to copy the whole thing to the clipboard at once.

Awesome!

By Parham Doustdar

6 years 6 months ago

This is new as of OS X 10.11, I believe

That was great, thanks. I didn't know about this because it wasn't mentioned in the new features in OS X 10.11. Is this officially a feature? If so, where can I find new features like this? This is a great productivity booster for me.

selecting text

By Pa. Joe

6 years 6 months ago

what has helped me a lot is keyboard commands for pages. many of the commands work with pretty much any text I have encountered. You can do a search. They are easy to find online.

"What's New" for macOS releases

By mehgcap

6 years 6 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

Applevis always offers a post on the notable features and bugs of major Apple releases. For instance, here's our post for 10.11, And this is the one for 10.10. When a new update comes out, watch our homepage and Twitter feed for these articles.

Shift-arrows

By Jake

6 years 6 months ago

In reply to Shift-arrows by mehgcap

Shift-arrows has worked as of 10.8 though it wasn't as reliable then. Before that there was another way, and still is, to select text using VO+return.

VO-Return in Safari

By Sounds2Good

6 years 4 months ago

In reply to Shift-arrows by Jake

Unfortunately I have found it difficult to select blocks of text with VO-Return in Safari. Do I need to interact with text first? I've also tried this and still no joy most of the time. I'd love to hear from folks who can get VO-Return to select text blocks in Safari reliably.

Thanks.

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