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
    
    
      - 
        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 
        
      
- 
        .. 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