I just lost about 5 minutes of typing because of the DUMB way WORD handles
the clipboard. I was keying in a SUGGESTION Norton about one of their DUMB
products (GHOST v9.0). After keying in their miniature suggestion box for 5
minutes I decided it would be better to create the SUGGESTION in WORD and
then either paste it into their box or find another way to get it to them. I
CUT the text that I had keyed in and then opened WORD to paste it into a new
document. You know the result. WORD thinks it knows more about clipboards
than XP so it wipes out whatever is on the clipboard and creates its own
clipboards. As a result I lost EVERYTHING that I had type. This isn't the
first time this BUG has bit me but I'd sure like to make it the last.

If you hadn't copied anything else after you copied the text from the Norton
window, you should have been able to do a Ctrl-V. It may not show up on the
clipboard, but I've never had that fail, unless the copy didn't take.

Lexi

"tadams61" wrote:

I just lost about 5 minutes of typing because of the DUMB way WORD handles
the clipboard. I was keying in a SUGGESTION Norton about one of their DUMB
products (GHOST v9.0). After keying in their miniature suggestion box for 5
minutes I decided it would be better to create the SUGGESTION in WORD and
then either paste it into their box or find another way to get it to them. I
CUT the text that I had keyed in and then opened WORD to paste it into a new
document. You know the result. WORD thinks it knows more about clipboards
than XP so it wipes out whatever is on the clipboard and creates its own
clipboards. As a result I lost EVERYTHING that I had type. This isn't the
first time this BUG has bit me but I'd sure like to make it the last.

Nope, I tried it. I highlighted the original post that I created and then
opened up WordPad and was able to paste the text into WordPad. I then opened
up Word and tried Ctrl-V, NOTHING. I then retried pasting to WordPad and
NOTHING. WORD completely wipes out the system clipboard when it starts up.

"Lexisch" wrote:

If you hadn't copied anything else after you copied the text from the Norton
window, you should have been able to do a Ctrl-V. It may not show up on the
clipboard, but I've never had that fail, unless the copy didn't take.

Lexi

"tadams61" wrote:

I just lost about 5 minutes of typing because of the DUMB way WORD handles
the clipboard. I was keying in a SUGGESTION Norton about one of their DUMB
products (GHOST v9.0). After keying in their miniature suggestion box for 5
minutes I decided it would be better to create the SUGGESTION in WORD and
then either paste it into their box or find another way to get it to them. I
CUT the text that I had keyed in and then opened WORD to paste it into a new
document. You know the result. WORD thinks it knows more about clipboards
than XP so it wipes out whatever is on the clipboard and creates its own
clipboards. As a result I lost EVERYTHING that I had type. This isn't the
first time this BUG has bit me but I'd sure like to make it the last.