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NNadir

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4. Right after noting for you that the "less than" symbol causes this, I failed to copy a post into Word...

Reply to Prairie_Seagull (Original post)

Sun Feb 25, 2024, 10:05 AM

Feb 2024

...and had the same problem.

Fortunately it was a short post: A U.S. Lead Exposure Hotspots Analysis

I went back and fixed it. The "less than" symbol appeared in some text from a scientific paper I excerpted.

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Just wrote a longish post and [View all] Prairie_Seagull Feb 2024 OP

Sometimes the network hiccups and you lose text. usonian Feb 2024 #1

No to html characters. Prairie_Seagull Feb 2024 #2

The "less than" symbol causes this. To avoid losing my work on long posts... NNadir Feb 2024 #3

Right after noting for you that the "less than" symbol causes this, I failed to copy a post into Word... NNadir Feb 2024 #4

On the desktop, I use the ghosttext extension. usonian Feb 2024 #5

Thanks. That sounds cool. NNadir Feb 2024 #6

Thanks NNadir. Prairie_Seagull Feb 2024 #7