Retrieving your blogs from elsewhere

Just been over to who gives a duck to experiment with blog retrieval. Mandy is creeping up the rated blogs list, closely followed by Milly - all we need now is a Molly on the scene and they'll have it all wrapped up. EJ is still top of the tree for the moment, though.

I wrote all the stuff below, and believe me it takes a lot lot longer to write than to do, so don't be put off, only to discover that the Janitor has given a solution already on his page here. And by the way, highlighting by dragging the cursor DOES copy over photos as well, at least on a PC. By all means, if his method's easier, go for it, but having typed what I've typed I'm not going to delete it all now, and you're welcome to read it.

Step 1.
Open a blank Word document.

Step 2.
Easiest (relatively speaking) way to retrieve your blogs is to find your pages on that site, then positon your cursor at the start of the first one on the page (which will be the most recent one on that page) - see pic below, the writing in red says Cursor should look like this, NOT an arrow.

Selection of page showing starting position of cursor

Then, left mouse click on that position, let go and move down the page to where you want to finish cutting, aim your cursor at the end point, hold down the Shift key and left mouse click again, STILL HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY. This will (should) highlight the section you want, which is the wordage in the middle section of the page and not all the bumf on either side - it will also include any photographs/images/avatars you have on your blog - see pic below.

Selection of page showing highlighted content

Right click and choose Copy (or CTRL-C, or under the Edit menu choose copy), go to your Word document and Paste (rightclick/Paste, or CTRL-V, or Edit/Paste). It will be in small size font, but you can then go through and move things about and change sizes etc, now it's at your computer. Then, you're free to post it as a blog or blogs on your own site, where you can put it in the right order.

Alternatively, open a New Post on your blog site and paste directly into there, where it will be a readable size.