When I select a quote in a book, and then copy it, and then paste it into another document, I'd like to have the source information pasted also (author, book, page). Is that possible?
Actually that's how it works by default (if you select more than just a couple of characters, I think). You may just try here in the forum.
Make sure Copy Citations is set to "Yes" in Tools > Program Settings.
OK -- I just selected a quote and right-clicked it and selected copy -- and here is what I paste --
Solid evidence, however, leads most interpreters to advocate the view that the name that God gave Jesus is the name Lord.
Hansen, G. W. (2009). The Letter to the Philippians (p. 162). Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
That works -- and it's encouraging. But when I did the same in a Word doc, all I got was this --
Solid evidence, however, leads most interpreters to advocate the view that the name that God gave Jesus is the name Lord.[1]
So maybe my question is how to do this for Word documents.
[1] Hansen, G. W. (2009). The Letter to the Philippians (p. 162). Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, England: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Steve: Did you realize that Word put the citation info into a footnote?
Yes, just wondering if there was a way to have it spelled out like it was above.
You have to make an easy adjustment in Word's settings. The following is for Word 2013. Images for clarification follow the instructions. You will see that there are other options (number format, special marks) to fine tune how it appears as well.
1. In Word, ensure that the "References" tab is selected.
2. On the footnotes section, click the little arrow on the bottom right of the box.
3. On the box that appears, select "Footnotes".
4. Select "Below Text" and hit "Apply".
if there was a way to have it spelled out like it was above.
the most easy way would be to open notepad or any other software that only accepts plain text (e.g. some people have a "Sticky Notes" application open all the time). Copy from Logos, paste it in this software, then copy from there and paste into Word. Voilà.
In Word you can right click at your insertion point and there's a menu that pops up with three paste options. Click on the right most paste icon and it will past the text as it does in your post here.
NB.Mick -- that's helpful -- thanks!
Kevin -- thanks for your suggestion.
But I am using Word 7 and don't see 3 options for pasting when I right click. Am I missing something?
Rick -- very helpful -- thanks!
A follow-up question.
I also use BibleWorks. Does anyone know how to copy citations from Logos into BibleWorks so the source is included?
Thanks!
Maybe there is a “paste special“ option and then something like “unformatted text only“ - this would be the most efficient way, I think now.
EDIT: Steve, I just realized that the reason you aren't seeing the 3 options is probably because you have the "Show Paste Options button when content is pasted" setting turned off in your Word Options (Advanced tab); make sure you turn it on and you should be all set. Thus you can probably disregard the rest of my answer which I posted before I remembered about this option.
Kevin -- thanks for your suggestion. But I am using Word 7 and don't see 3 options for pasting when I right click. Am I missing something?
Steve, I'm using Word 2013 and I can't remember if Word 7 worked precisely this same way but I don't think it's changed since then.
When I paste into Word from another app, a "Ctrl" menu button pops up at the cursor position, like this:
You can drop that menu down either by clicking on it or by pressing Ctrl, and the dropdown menu has these options:
If you hover over the options, you can see what each of them is (and the shortcut key for them):
Keep Source Formatting (K), Merge Formatting (M), Keep Text Only (T)
Keep Source Formatting will keep formatting exactly as it was in the app you copied it from. Merge Formatting will attempt to merge the source formatting with that of the paragraph into which you're pasting it. And Keep Text Only inherits all the formatting of the destination, none from the source.
If I have something from another app in the clipboard and I right click in a Word document, this menu pops up:
Notice the three paste options in the middle of that bottom menu.
the reason you aren't seeing the 3 options is probably because you have the "Show Paste Options button when content is pasted" setting turned off in your Word Options (Advanced tab); make sure you turn it on and you should be all set.
I'm using Word 7 (sorry, German localized version) and even though this option is set, the three buttons don't appear. Thus the "right click for paste" and choosing one of the buttons doesn't work.
But the "paste first and correct later" recommendation you gave will work in Word 7: the little clipboard appears and paste can be set to "Text only"
Alternatively, which is what I typically use, one can go via the ribbon by expanding the paste button:
That's what I meant earlier (and forgot about the other day) - it allows "Unformatted text" (Unicode or non-Unicode):
Hope this helps.
This is great for you PC users ... but what about in Mac PAGES?? Still have not gotten this worked out. What I am doing now is entering footnotes manually each time I need one. The copy/paste option here would help.
PS - I called tech support of PAGES ... no help there. I've been hoping that Logos would work this out but so far no change.
This is great for you PC users ... but what about in Mac PAGES?? Still have not gotten this worked out.
Apple must first provide the ability/documentation to allow these features.
OK, do we have any reference for Office for Mac users? There is no reference tab in Word 2011 for Mac.
