Copy / paste

I have windows XP home edition and word 2002. If I copy to the clipboard
and then open word, the clipboard is empty and I have to copy again once
word is open.

This behaviour only seems to happen in word. I cab have things in the
clipboard and paste them into many other applications upon opening them but
not word.

any tips please

Thanks

Charles
Fri Feb 06 15:35:08 CST 2004

I believe I read that this is a function of the Works Add-In. Do you have
Microsoft Works installed?
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"S Green" <stevenospamgreen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have windows XP home edition and word 2002. If I copy to the clipboard
> and then open word, the clipboard is empty and I have to copy again once
> word is open.
>
> This behaviour only seems to happen in word. I cab have things in the
> clipboard and paste them into many other applications upon opening them
but
> not word.
>
> any tips please
>
> Thanks
>
>

S
Fri Feb 06 17:12:01 CST 2004


"Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in
message news:%23RerGkP7DHA.452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I believe I read that this is a function of the Works Add-In. Do you have
> Microsoft Works installed?
> --
>
Yes I do does this make any difference?

Suzanne
Fri Feb 06 18:25:36 CST 2004

One of the many nasty habits of the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word is
that it clears the Clipboard when you start Word. If you're running Word
freestanding (not launching it from the Works Task Launcher) and don't
expect to be using a Works database or address book as a mail merge data
source in Word, you need to uninstall the add-in through Control Panel |
Add/Remove Programs.

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"S Green" <stevenospamgreen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uj4KtPP7DHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I have windows XP home edition and word 2002. If I copy to the clipboard
> and then open word, the clipboard is empty and I have to copy again once
> word is open.
>
> This behaviour only seems to happen in word. I cab have things in the
> clipboard and paste them into many other applications upon opening them
but
> not word.
>
> any tips please
>
> Thanks
>
>

Graham
Sat Feb 07 00:49:49 CST 2004

S Green wrote:
> "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in
> message news:%23RerGkP7DHA.452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> I believe I read that this is a function of the Works Add-In. Do you
>> have Microsoft Works installed?
>> --
>>
> Yes I do does this make any difference?

Yes - the add-in is a regular bug fest - see
http://www.gmayor.com/multiple_mail_merge_entries.htm for another of its
strange quirks and a description of how to lose it.

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S
Sat Feb 07 08:35:11 CST 2004


"Graham Mayor" <gmayor@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> S Green wrote:
> > "Charles Kenyon" <msnewsgroup@remove.no.spam.addbalance.com> wrote in
> > message news:%23RerGkP7DHA.452@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> I believe I read that this is a function of the Works Add-In. Do you
> >> have Microsoft Works installed?
> >> --
> >>
> > Yes I do does this make any difference?
>
> Yes - the add-in is a regular bug fest - see
> http://www.gmayor.com/multiple_mail_merge_entries.htm for another of its
> strange quirks and a description of how to lose it.
>


Thanks problem solved when the addin was removed

S
Sat Feb 07 08:35:37 CST 2004


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:Oi8ydER7DHA.1592@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> One of the many nasty habits of the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word
is
> that it clears the Clipboard when you start Word. If you're running Word
> freestanding (not launching it from the Works Task Launcher) and don't
> expect to be using a Works database or address book as a mail merge data
> source in Word, you need to uninstall the add-in through Control Panel |
> Add/Remove Programs.
>
> --
> Suzanne S. Barnhill
> Microsoft MVP (Word)
> Words into Type
> Fairhope, Alabama USA
> Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
> all may benefit.

Thanks problem solved when the addin was removed