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?