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Read&Write GOLD Version 8: Adding Text from the Web, Clibboard, or a Saved Document into the Fact Folder

by Penny McCulloch

 

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Let’s start from the beginning and capture some new facts (text) into the Fact Folder from a web page.

  1. Open a web page. Highlight some text you want to save into your fact folder.

    Screenshot showing highlighted text from a web page

  2. Click on Fact Folder icon.
  3. You will see a Fact Details window displayed as follows:

    Fact Details Properties window

  4. You may change the title to suit if required. (The website addresses of any web pages you have open are automatically added to the Sources list box.)
  5. If you want to place this information into a category (eg the topic you are collecting on), select Category.
  6. Add a category name by clicking on ADD

    Select Categories window - click Add

  7. Click OK

    Edit Category Name window

  8. Click OK

    Select Categories window - with a category added and selected

Adding a document to your Fact Folder

  1. With the Fact Details window open, go to Sources and click on the green plus (+) sign.

    Fact Details window showing a source selected

  2. Browse on your computer to find the source document you want to add and select it and click on OPEN.
  3. You will now notice that the document is stored with your original information copied from the web page in the Sources section.

    Fact Details window

  4. Click OK.

Adding facts to the Fact Folder from the Clipboard

  1. Find text you want to copy and save into your Fact Folder (could be from a web page, Word document etc)
  2. Highlight – edit – copy (to clipboard.)
  3. Go to the drop down menu next to the Fact Folder icon on the Read and write toolbar. Select Add Clipboard Contents.

    Fact Folder drop-down menu

  4. A new Fact Details window will be opened. You may alter the title if you wish. Make sure you allocate a category for your information.

    Fact Details window

With this window open you can drag and drop a document into the Sources section to add more information to your Fact Folder if you wish.

You can now drag and drop a document from the Windows Explorer into the Fact Details Sources