?: Copy and Paste from clipboard to email ???

[greyhound rick]

Hello everyone,

On my MBP running 10.9.5 Mavericks I was wondering how in the world can you paste a screenshot from your clipboard into an email?

I can paste to a Pages document just fine, but when i try in gmail and/or iCloud mail nothing happens.

Do i need an app for this or will this only work with certain email clients?

thank you for your time!

best,

rick

 

[chscag]

You don't "paste" a screenshot, instead you "attach" the screenshot (jpg) to the mail message.

 

[greyhound rick]

You don't "paste" a screenshot, instead you "attach" the screenshot (jpg) to the mail message.

Thanks for your response.

I can attach one as you mentioned, but Ive had people send me screen shots from their Macs in which the image appeared "in" the body of the email itself rather than as an attachment that you had to download.

I was wondering how that is done.

thanks again,

rick

 

[IWT]

Hi Rick

Compose your email as you want it and the drag the screen capture image into the body of the email. If you want the screen capture to be in a specific place, then you may need to go into Mail Preferences and uncheck the box that says "place attachment at bottom of email". This isn't always necessary. Sometimes the dragged screen shot stays where you put it. Other times it goes to the bottom. It's not consistent in my case anyway.

Ian


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[greyhound rick]

Hi Rick

Compose your email as you want it and the drag the screen capture image into the body of the email. If you want the screen capture to be in a specific place, then you may need to go into Mail Preferences and uncheck the box that says "place attachment at bottom of email". This isn't always necessary. Sometimes the dragged screen shot stays where you put it. Other times it goes to the bottom. It's not consistent in my case anyway.

Ian


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Thank you Ian!

It worked perfectly. Many folks think that you can't do this in gmail but you just proved them wrong!

Great job and thanks again!

rick

 

[MacInWin]

Be aware that you cannot control what the receiver sees. It may look fine, just the way you want it, when you SEND it but how it is RECEIVED is up to the receiver and how their system is set up to display mails. So while Ian's tip it good for you as you compose, there is no guarantee that it's going to look that way when it arrives.

 

[greyhound rick]

Be aware that you cannot control what the receiver sees. It may look fine, just the way you want it, when you SEND it but how it is RECEIVED is up to the receiver and how their system is set up to display mails. So while Ian's tip it good for you as you compose, there is no guarantee that it's going to look that way when it arrives.

Thanks for the tip Jake. Will make sure to keep that in mind! take care, Rick