# Formatting a copy and paste to a note

**URL:** <https://gramps.discourse.group/t/formatting-a-copy-and-paste-to-a-note/10156>\
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**Created:** [October 26, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/formatting-a-copy-and-paste-to-a-note/10156 "2026-10-26T19:33:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Davesellers](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/davesellers/32/1457_2.png) [@Davesellers](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Davesellers)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/formatting-a-copy-and-paste-to-a-note/10156/1 "2026-10-26T19:33:34Z")

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V 6.0.3

Seems that Ancestry just changed the format of the citation display on their web site. The citation text now has lines between the rows. I think FS has the same but I don’t do much copy/paste from that site.

Now when you c/P into a note, you have to edit each line to get the field text to be on the same line as the data. Painful.

Is there any magic way to copy and paste into a note that the lines formatted correctly?

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**Author:** ![comeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@comeng](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/comeng)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/formatting-a-copy-and-paste-to-a-note/10156/2 "2026-10-26T19:53:57Z")

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I would also be interested in this, suspect that is why there is no copy  
button option and it is now a right pain to remove the junk.  
The presumption is you are going to save the details to your tree on  
their site. My reason for not doing that is that it perpetuates the  
transcription errors that come across.  
I have long since given up submitting corrections to commercial websites.  
phil