I created data tables on microsoft excel at work and saved them in my USB flash drive. I copied the information from the USB into my hardrive. It seams that it takes a few secons longer for the file to open when I do it from the hardrive than when i do it from the USB flas drive. Does copy & paste affect the quality of a ducument? If I keep coping and pasting the same document over and over, will the cuality of the "copies" be different?
2007-01-05 15:44:23 · 6 answers · asked by Dr. R 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
When you COPY from notepad into another application, like Excel, then you only get the TEXT. But if you copy from WORD to Excel, you could be getting Styles, Fonts and other attributes, so it would be BIGGER.
This is especially true when you PASTE into Front Page, or other HTML editor. Always PASTE from notepad, so you only get plain text.
Good luck and Happy Computing!
2007-01-05 15:51:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To copy and paste from and to the same version of the same software should have no effect on the quality or format of the document.
You will find, however, that if you open a file in a different version - text might appear the same, for the most part, but graphics may have to be rearranged. For example, I work in Office 2000 and sometimes Office 97 at work. It has gotten to the point where I make a second copy of the document in the other version after I have rearranged graphics.
It is probably faster to open a file on the flashdrive than on the hard drive because of files running in the background - like your screensaver. If you notice your PC slowing down, I suggest you lose any wallpaper and screensaver, check your Startup Menu and remove anything you don't use daily, and run a Disk Cleanup and a defrag. You will be surprised how these simple things help your speed.
2007-01-05 23:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Copy and paste operations have no effect at all on quality of data or document. The only explanation I have for the extra delay is a heavily-fragmented hard drive or an abundance of hard-drive processes running. Usually, the USB device is the slower device since data cannot travel down the USB line as fast as it can to the computer's hard disk.
2007-01-06 00:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by ggfire 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have never had that problem. Unless the version of Excel at work is a later version than you have at home. If that is the case you would have to save the Excel file at work to match the version of Excel (say you have Office 2000, and at work you have 2003) you have at home.
2007-01-05 23:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by Clipper 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
copying over and over will not degrade the quality.
usually the usb takes longer to read since its an external drive. your hard drive might need defraging.
2007-01-05 23:53:48 · answer #5 · answered by scorpion_tk04 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. It takes longer because your hard drive is either slow or fragmented.
2007-01-05 23:48:33 · answer #6 · answered by Mack D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋