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.

That isn't normal Word behavior. The most likely culprit is the Works Suite
Add-In. See
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...GP11.ph x.gbl.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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.

Thanks Jay, that was it. I have WORD as part of Works Suite 2003. I've now
deleted the Works Suite Add-In for Word and that fixed the problem.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

That isn't normal Word behavior. The most likely culprit is the Works Suite
Add-In. See
http://groups.google.com/groups?thre...GP11.ph x.gbl.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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.