Interesting feature of SmugMug

...an apparently undocumented SmugMug feature has saved me lots of repetitive work.

A year ago I posted 100+ shots from my college reunion on SmugMug for the amusement of attendees. Part of the process was identifying everyone in captions, which took many emails over a couple of weeks.

That was a year ago and it's time to pull those galleries down, but I didn't want to lose all the names attached to the faces. So I figured I'd open a Word document, then cut/paste 100+ captions into it and save it with the pictures in my archives.

Funny thing happened: I was a little careless with my mouse in selecting a caption and I found I had all of them on that page. Awright!

It turns out I could select the thumbnails at the left of the page with my mouse, copy them to the clipboard (CTRL-C), then paste them into the Word document (CTRL-V). But this didn't save the thumbnails, it saved the captions. Exactly what I wanted.

EDIT: I used WordPad, not Word. See post #4 below.

Here's what I selected:

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Did it grab keywords too?

tfd888 wrote in post #10380783
Did it grab keywords too?

It will if you highlight them. I didn't.

-js

Hmmm. This is sorta strange.

As I said above, if I select thumbnails and paste them into WordPad, I get the captions.

If I paste them into Word I get the thumbnail pictures!

This is actually a feature of Internet Explorer/Windows. IE lets you copy the pictures and captions on to the clipboard. WordPad only pastes the captions, because they're text. Word accepts both pictures and text.

-J