Saving Posts

[Shelley]

I am aware that posts are auto saved at regular intervals but is there any way to manually save the post?

[roddy]

No. I'd just save to notepad if necessary, or if you want to do a lot of formatting save it as a draft pm. 

[Lu]

Control-A Control-C. And then, if you loose the post, Control-V. There may be more sophisticated ways, but this is what I use if I'm worried that the computer will eat my post. And it works everyhere, not just on this site!

[Shelley]

ok thank you roddy.

 

lu I will give that a try next time.

 

it usually happens because I want to go and check something some where else on the forum and then it loses my post. I usually get back some of it because of auto save but I thought if I could just force a save i could go away from my post with out worrying.

[oceancalligraphy]

I've found it can be easier to write in notepad first, then paste. It also helps in consistent formatting in cases where I'm cutting and pasting from other places.

[Shelley]

Thanks yst for that, if I plan a long post in the future it definitely looks the way to go.