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Thanks for clearing the quote up—but that was exactly the parent post's point—

> SlideShare sucks at exactly this kind of UI

You can't copy and paste its text!

If you scroll down there's a transcript which you can c/p from, but I agree that it's not ideal.

He had me at:

> If you do nothing, the end result is better.

The exact same thing happened when I tried to copy text from a slide - the white space didn't copy over.