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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / December 2003clipboard gets emptied when starting W 2002/XP
First time poster here. I quite often want to edit a sentence using Word. When I copy the sentence to the clipboard using Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Insert from my program (Refernce Manager for instance), then open Word (2002/Office XP, 10.5815.4219 - SP2), the clipboard is emptied, and I have to go bacl to the other application, re-copy the phrase, and then pasting into Word works fine. Why is Word emptying the clipboard, and how can I avoid this, other than having Word open all the time?  SignatureBest regards Han email address is invalid Usually an add-in is responsible for clearing the Clipboard when you start Word. The most notorious for this is the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word. You say you have Office XP, but if you ever had Works Suite and installed Office over it, (a) the version of Word you have is still the one from Works Suite, since Office will not replace it, and (b) the add-in is probably still installed. You can (and should) install it through Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs (clearing the Clipboard is only one of its nasty habits). If the Works add-in is absolutely not a possibility, then look for another add-in that might be responsible. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > First time poster here. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Han > email address is invalid > Usually an add-in is responsible for clearing the Clipboard when you > start Word. The most notorious for this is the Microsoft Works Suite [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the > newsgroup so all may benefit. Thanks Suzanne! I indeed had the Works suite before installing Office XP over it. Do I understand correctly that I should uninstall Works suite and reinstall Word over what I have now? SignatureBest regards Han email address is invalid Han <noone@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:Xns94438CA1B740Eikkezelf@ 207.46.248.16: > Thanks Suzanne! > > I indeed had the Works suite before installing Office XP over it. Do I > understand correctly that I should uninstall Works suite and reinstall > Word over what I have now? I uninstalled the Works suite word add-in, and that cured the problem. Sorry for not quite understanding that at first. SignatureBest regards Han email address is invalid Uninstalling the add-in will cure the current problem, but it would not be a bad idea to uninstall Word (the Works Suite version) and reinstall it from Office (no data will be lost, but it would be a good idea to back up customizations; see http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm). The reason for this is that as long as you have Word from one application and the rest of Office from another, there are two different CD keys involved/required. This can cause problems whenever you want to apply patches and certainly if you need to reinstall or add components. It's just simpler if you only have to deal with one CD key. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Han <noone@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:Xns94438CA1B740Eikkezelf@ > 207.46.248.16: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Han > email address is invalid |
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