Copying and pasting
You can copy and paste (multiple) nodes between
mindmaps, as you might expect.
You can copy a single node without its children by
Copy Single
Pasting external data into FreeMind
In addition, you can paste normal text or HTML from
other applications.
Normal text
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Multiple lines are pasted as multiple nodes.
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URLs are recognized automatically and links are
created.
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Lines with different depth are pasted in different
depth.
e.g.
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Source
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.. is pasted as
HTML
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HTML is pasted as normal text, but also links
contained in HTML are separately pasted, e.g.:
where the red arrows indicate Web links.
File list
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Paste a set of files selected in Explorer on
Windows
Pasting branches from FreeMind into
other applications
As text
The tree structure is displayed by indent
is pasted as
A node
child one
child two
Links are pasted, too, in < > brackets:
Source
~
Google
... is
pasted as
Google <http://www.google.com/>
As RTF
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You can paste the branch contents into ...
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Word
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an Outlook message
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Wordpad
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Text formatting -- color and font -- is preserved
in RTF applications:
A node
child one
child two
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Links are pasted in a similar fashion as in pasting
text