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Quick Tip: Copying error messages...
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Idiophreak
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Hi All,
Just a very quick post to share the following...I know that to some of you this is going to sound *blindingly* obvious, but I think we'll be surprised how many people didn't/don't know it...I certainly didn't (despite 4 years studying CS at uni, a number of years software dev etc) until this morning when a colleague discovered it by accident.
Anyway, the tip is:
*drumroll*
When faced with an error message (or message box generally, for that matter), if you hit ctrl+c, the text will be copied to the clipboard.
That's it.
Simple enough, but when I think of the minutes I've spent copying error messages into google manually, I shudder
Just a very quick post to share the following...I know that to some of you this is going to sound *blindingly* obvious, but I think we'll be surprised how many people didn't/don't know it...I certainly didn't (despite 4 years studying CS at uni, a number of years software dev etc) until this morning when a colleague discovered it by accident.
Anyway, the tip is:
*drumroll*
When faced with an error message (or message box generally, for that matter), if you hit ctrl+c, the text will be copied to the clipboard.
That's it.
Simple enough, but when I think of the minutes I've spent copying error messages into google manually, I shudder
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