Yes, I should have said ‘heavy’ rather than ‘thick’. I was slightly wrong-footed by William’s reference to ‘thin card’.

I imagine that many of the fibres in ‘canvas’ type paper are quite heavily compressed to produce the desired texture, which would result in the end product being relatively heavy despite being thin enough to pass easily through the printer.

I regard 350 gsm as quite thick! Many consumer-grade printers won’t handle anything heavier than 200 gsm or so, even if the paper path is a straight one.

Clicking and then dragging to highlight should enable you to copy the selected text. I wonder why it doesn’t.

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If you have an Amazon account you can get them from there, although the delivery charges will amount to an additional £4 or £5 unless you order at least £25 worth of goods that are dispatched by Amazon. There are numerous online stationery specialists you could try, but again you should expect a delivery charge of £3 or so for a small order.

Although I said I wasn’t planning to do so, I didn’t promise not to look in detail at any larger sets. When I found this list of 36 colours — for pigment brush pens rather than pencils— the three-digit numbers caught my eye, prompting me to investigate further. Now that I’ve seen your further post about the pencils, I note that the colours in the set of 36 pencils are not exactly the same as those in the set of 36 brush pens (e.g. ‘77 warm sepia’ in the pencils, but ‘76 brown’ in the brush pens).

The 12-colour set includes five base colours: red, blue, orange, green, and black. The 24-colour set adds white, yellow, and violet to the list. The 36-colour set implies additional base colours ‘7 brown’ and ‘8 grey’.

OK, here we go. The set of 12 comprises these colours:

The set of 24 adds these colours:

Please don’t focus too much on the grouping. The three groups of four in the original list correspond to the arrangement of the swatches on the web page, and the two groups of six on the supplementary list simply reflect the way I recorded them at the time.

Yes, it is. I have a complete list of the original 12, and a list of the extra 12 that make up the set of 24, if anyone is sufficiently interested. I’m not planning to look in detail at any larger sets!

Do you like the range of colours? (I’ve just been looking at something else that reminded me of Pantone’s Colours of Vitality.)

The latter, apparently. They’re available in my local store, but one of the two reviews (both five-star, and both from a few years ago) says “Gutted that it's not available to buy online.”

When stored in such a large box, don’t your pencils rattle around at the slightest provocation? I would be inclined to keep a set of coloured pencils in the slim little cardboard box that they came in.

I should have mentioned that the next time you use WinKey+R the previous text will still be there, so if you always use it for the same program it’s almost as quick as clicking on a shortcut icon on the Windows Desktop.

I’m glad it seems to have righted itself, William, but for future reference you should be able to run a named program via the dialog box that pops up when you use WinKey+R. For WordPad, the sequence would be:

1. Press and hold the Windows key (the one with the Windows logo, to the left of the space bar).
2. Press and release the R key, and then release the Windows key.
3. Type or paste the application name WordPad into the ‘Run’ box.
4. Press the ‘OK’ button in the dialog, or press the Enter key on your keyboard.