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Why is no one going nuts about the Nescafe advert?

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ghosty · 26/01/2008 01:26

????

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:55

HANG ON!!!! I THINK I MAY HAVE CRACKED IT ...
BACK IN A SEC - GOING TO TEST IT OUT ....

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:53

I just tried a plain old copy and paste and it came up with the WSPA advert instead of the Cosmos travel one that I was trying to 'Grab' ...
So I emptied clip board contents and tried again with the prtscn option ... nothing.

Stupid question alert: Do I have to 'highlight' the picture I want to paste?

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:42

Nope, clip board still empty

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:41

I have to tell you that I have no 'edit' on Vista ...

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sandcastles · 30/01/2008 09:41

Try hitting ctrl & that button.....

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:39

Right, Clip board now empty.

I am going in ....

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sandcastles · 30/01/2008 09:39

Oi, ghosty...don't take this out on me.....

Just cos you ate all the doughnuts!

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:37
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DCsnatchsunhill · 30/01/2008 09:33

Bolleaux. Tried also to do the smash and grab, as there is a new Nescafe ad to the right now...saying Add Some Beans to your Coffee or sumfink.
Did the grab screen thingy but then realised that I haven't got Word to paste it into.

arfishy · 30/01/2008 09:30

The problem is cos you've been pressing the prtsc button lots, it's been taking lots of images and storing them in the clipboard. When you press paste, it pastes the last one you tried. Your evil nestle one is probably halfway down the list.

Soooo. You have some choices here.

Lets try going to Word, clicking Edit & then 'Office Clipboard'. You might need to press the little downwards double arrows to expand your menu before you see the 'office clipboard' option.

This should show the contents of your clipboard, from here you can choose which image to paste. If you can't see it clearly then you can select 'clear clipboard' and then go back to mumsnet and do it again - BUT ONLY PRESS THE BUTTON ONCE!! Then it will work nicely.

DCsnatchsunhill · 30/01/2008 09:26

It's still there Tech! Am looking at it now...

Slight hijack..have started new job that only has Fairtrade coffee and tea up for grabs. 'Tis lovely, but I know..deep down...that my heart belongs to Nescafe blend 43.

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 09:01

the button has 'insert' and prtsc on it if that helps

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 08:59

stupid computer

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 08:58

I did wot you said miss and it isn't working ... When I press 'paste' on my word doc it just pastes the last link I copied ... not this thread.

FWIW ... I have a laptop and have Vista. So I have microsoft Office Word.

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sandcastles · 30/01/2008 08:37

Just seen the ad in the right [bigger] ad space on active convos

[screen dump done]

arfishy · 30/01/2008 08:29

And to add insult to injury. The AD is at the top of my screen.

arfishy · 30/01/2008 08:29

Aha. I see it is insert.

So. Close down word completely and re-open it to a fresh page.

Then go to your thread with the offending popup and press the PrtSc Button. Either you will toggle 'insert mode' on or you will silently print the screen to the clipboard. It will not tell you what it's done, or indeed if it's worked. Or if it's switched on insert mode.

Now, to see what it's done, go straight away to word. Click on Edit, then choose paste. Or just do Ctrl-V.

What happens? Do you get a completely different picture? If you do, then click on Edit, Office Clipboard. This will show you what you've got stored in the clipboard - if you've been pressing PrtScr all over the place you might have a load of different images in there.

Tell me what's happening and I'll tell you what to do.

Buda · 30/01/2008 08:25

(Passes ghosty a freshly made cup of Nespresso to help her concentrate)

I am not even trying as glaze over at mention of anything technical.

arfishy · 30/01/2008 08:19

PMSL at you Ghosty. There There - I have trained scared 50 year old secretaries how to program. We can do this.

Now, do you have a mac or PC? It's a PC isn't it?

So, does the PrtSc button have two words, one underneath the other, or just one?

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 08:12

Oh god.
I am so utterly thick.
I still can't do it. I don't understand what I have to do
I have just copied and pasted this document (the ad was there again) and pressed prtsc and after what seemed like ages the whole thread came up on my word document but has a Legal and General Ad on it.
I am resigning myself to a lifetime of never knowing how to do a 'screen grab'

MrsJC ... thank you for your patience, but can you tell me very very slowly, like I am a 3 year old, in 1. 2. 3. instructions, what do I have to do again? ...

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JJMumsnet · 30/01/2008 08:07

Hi - thanks for sending the screen grab. We're still trying to get the ad agency to find it to take down.

Sorry about this!

MrsJohnCusack · 30/01/2008 08:02

I mean, hit print screen (nothing will happen - it's very dull)

and then go into word to paste it

MrsJohnCusack · 30/01/2008 08:01

nothing happens ghosty

you have to go into word and then paste it

i.e. right click onthe document and choose 'paste' OR hit CTRL+P

then the picture will appear

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ghosty · 30/01/2008 07:15

Ah, I see it ... it is on the same button as 'insert' ... I was searching all over the screen to find it
but when i just hit prtscn nothing happened ...

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