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Don't wipe out the system clipboard when entering WORD
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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