I've gotten used to my old Office 97 Pro(WIN98SE), where all tools were
available all the time, and noting was ever greyed out, unless you unchecked
and chose not to use a particular tool.
I thought maybe there was a more complete intstallation option I should have
selected, to provide all available tools; but the program information shows
that I don't have anything "disabled" in my settings, and all updates are
installed.
With Office 2003 (using WIN XP), I guess I'll have to adjust my routine.
Thanks for the reply.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The buttons are context sensitive. Do you have any text selected, or
anything on the clipboard?

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marc wrote:
Why are cut, copy, and past buttons showing greyed out, and inactive,
when composing a document in WORD 2003?
How can I turn them on or activate them for use in all types of
documents?