## 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

- Ctrl + Y

#### Pasting external data into FreeMind

In addition, you can paste normal text or HTML from other applications.

Normal text

- Multiple lines are pasted as multiple nodes.
- URLs are recognized automatically and links are created.
- Lines with different depth are pasted in different depth.
  e.g.
- Source
  - Tree
  - Oak
  - Beech
- .. is pasted as

HTML

- 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

- 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

- You can paste the branch contents into ...

> - Word
> - an Outlook message
> - Wordpad

- Text formatting -- color and font -- is preserved in RTF applications:

  > A node
  > child one
  > child two

- Links are pasted in a similar fashion as in pasting text