When you copy graphics from a Web site, what you are actually copying to the
Clipboard is a link to the location where the graphic is stored. So when you
paste the graphic, you're really pasting this link. To solve this problem,
paste once, then select the pasted object and press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink
it. Then copy the pasted object; what you have on the Clipboard will then be
the object itself and not a link to it.

Alternatively, instead of pasting the object the first time, use Paste
Special and choose an appropriate format.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Stro" wrote in message
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Open any (or some, at least) web site with pictures in it using Internet
Explorer. Select any area with pictures and text, copy it to Clipboard.
Switch to Word (in my case it's 2000 but it could be 2002, as far as I
remember) and paste selection.
What happens: instead of pasting data from Clipboard Word is re-getting
data
directly from the web-site. Often you just don't notice it but sometimes,
when it re-gets a picture, you can see a message in status panel
"retrieving
picture xyz.fig..." with small progress bar. And if this website for some
reasons doesn't allow to get picture/text/whatever for the second time, or
it's just overloaded, Word is hanging indefinitely and can be stopped only
by
killing its process. In the best case it pastes selection more or less
quickly, in average case paste operation takes some noticable time - even
for
short simple text fragment, even for one word!
The question is: is it possible to turn this "feature" off and force Word
to
behave itself and paste data from the Clipboard, not from website?