Are you talking about copying from a web page?
If so, you have to be sure there are no legal issues like copyright involved.
But assuming there are not, and I wouldn't expect there to be any with recipes, copying and pasting a web page is not as straightforward is it seems.
The web page is full of special codes and characters that make up the page. It is not like typing a page in a Word Processor. The borders are hard wired into the web page and the images are placeholders referring to an image held on the server.
If the advertisement is text based then when you copy the whole page, the advert is copied as well, but the borders and images are not.
What you will have to do is place your cursor before the first letter of the first word of the recipe and click. Then, holding down the left mouse button, drag the mouse down to the bottom of the receipe to highlight all the words.
Then goto Edit, then select copy.
Then in a word processor, open up a blank page and paste into the page. But it is most likely you will have to do some reformatting yourself to get it to look right.
Mark
When printing recipe cards, how do you print only the cards and not the advertisement at the top of the page. When I try to copy and paste into new wordpad document it wont let me paste the box that is around the recipe and I want the whole card, and not the advertisement up top. Thank You

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