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type="topic" style="task"
id="textselection">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#faq"/>
<desc>When you copy text, the text that is pasted might be different from what you had selected.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
</info>
<title>Why didn't the text I selected copy properly?</title>
<p>
If you highlight and copy text from a document using the <app>document viewer</app> and then paste it into another
application, the formatting may alter. It may also contain different characters than the original selection. This often happens when copying text from a PDF document with multiple columns.
</p>
<p>
This problem happens because of how some document formats handle text.
The actual text in the document is stored differently from the way it is
displayed. This may result in a copy that does not appear as expected.
</p>
<p>
Unfortunately, there is no real way of fixing this problem. Copying
less text at a time, or copying the text into a text editor (like <app>gedit</app>) may minimize the problem.
</p>
</page>