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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 30 Sep 1996.
How to copy a part of an ascii file

How to copy a part of an ascii file

From eve1 <ber...@best.com> · alt.ascii-art · 30 Sep 1996 00:00 · View full thread · report

Hi 
I finally found the answer to the below question(how to take part of
an ACII pic) with the help of Braveheart and Barry (thanks you guys)
After checking into the tools I had available for this, I found out
that my own wordp. did the job perfectly fine :)
I sat down and wrote it out for some others out there that wondered, 
just as i had done, how this could be done: 


In order to copy part of an ascii picture out of a group of many, you
can use a text editor such as Microsoft Word.  Make sure you set it
for a mono spaced-font, such as Courier and set your font for
condensed spacing.  Now copy a large ascii file into the document you
just established.  The way to copy just a small portion of this file,
is to hold down the ALT key and drag your mouse to the direction you
want. In other words: highlighting just the portion you wanted.  
(This really helps when you want to copy just a small portion out
without upsetting the rest of the picture.)  If a ASCII graphic is not
centered or on the wrong side of your page, you can also use this
feature to delete spaces on either side of the picture without having
to do major editing or adjusting of the graphic.  Once copied, you can
now open a new document, use the same settings and copy your small
portion(new picture) of the previous ASCII file, into the new
document.  

I hope this is clear enough and helps some others out there :)

My question that remains is, how can you reduce the size of some of
the very large graphics? Is there a way? Back to the drawing board..
and thanks to all the people who responded :)
Eve1

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Subject: How to copy a part of an ascii file
Date: 1996/09/30
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