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Exiting Word
I've had it do so if I've copied something really large. It doesn't do it
routinely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Actually, Word does not do that here and I don't recall that it has ever done so. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Well, actually, so does Word; that's what started this thread. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... Some programs (Access for one) actually tell you, when closing the item from which the data was copied, that you placed a large amount of data on the clipboard and give you the option of deleting it or retaining it for use in another application. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Nice explanation. Thanks, Bob! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Bob S" wrote in message ... On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:55 -0700, phideaux wrote: I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa bout an option to just turn off the "warning.?" Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker, Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word care? First, you need to know that when you use "copy to the clipboard" on a large piece of stuff, the stuff does not actually get copied anywhere. Instead, a pointer to the stuff gets put in the clipboard. Later, when you decide to paste it, the stuff actually gets moved. Windows does this to save a lot of wasted copying. For example, if you select a large chunk of Word document, there is no point in copying it to some temporary place. That just wastes time. Furthermore, Windows doesn't really know exactly what to copy until you try to paste it. After all, you might paste it as a Word DOC, or as plain text, or an Excel table, or a picture, or any number of other formats. By just saving a pointer, the clipboard processor can see what you want to paste and ask the source application for only what it needs. Given all of this, what happens if you "copy to the clipboard" some large chunk of Word stuff and then close Word? If you want to be able to paste it later, Windows needs to really copy all that stuff, in some number of forms, to a temporary file somewhere so that it will have something to paste. Then later this large temporary file may be left lying around on your disk. So what Word is really asking is "Do you want some big TMP file cluttering up your disk so you can paste this stuff later, or should I just dump it?" At least Word is nice enough to ask, unlike some other applications. Bob S |
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