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problem with cut and paste

Jun 16, 2005 1:41AM PDT

When using MS word and I copy or cut some text, it will paste into another open document without problem. But if I shut down MS word and restart it, the data can no longer be pasted (the paste command greys). It seems it is not kept in the clipboard. Another PC I have does not do this. Is this a word setting? Or an XP one? I have looked but cannot find any reference to this.

TIA

Alex

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It's a side effect of...
Jun 16, 2005 2:02AM PDT

The clipboard that Office uses. It can save multiple clips and more, but vanishes when you exit.

-> By design.

Bob

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It's a side effect of...
Jun 16, 2005 2:47AM PDT

I have another computer and have checked on others. They don't clear the clipboard when exiting word - They retain the data.

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The others don't have the Office clipboard.
Jun 16, 2005 2:59AM PDT
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It works here
Jun 16, 2005 3:03AM PDT

I have MS Office XP (which is "2002" for those who need the number) running on WinXP Pro.

I just copied some formatted text from a Word document, and pasted elsewhere (only to insure I really had copied what I wanted).

I then shut down Word, and pasted that text into another application, Outlook (which is also an Office application). The formatted text was pasted as expected.

I then shut down Outlook, so now I had no other Office application running. I then pasted into another application, Notepad, and the paste worked there as well (minus the formatting, naturally).

I then again opened Word and pasted there. The words I had, still in the Copy buffer, were still able to be pasted, and they were formatted.

So, what you described, is not how it works here. Sorry.

I suspect there may be a setting on your Word, or Office Suite, that says "clear out the buffer when I shut off the Office applications."

I do not know if such a switch exists. All I know is that the copy buffer maintains for me, even after all Office applications are shut down.

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It works here
Jun 16, 2005 3:49AM PDT

I wish I knew where the the switch or whatever was. I'm pretty sure that the system clipboard is overriding the office one. How? I don't have a clue.

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you got it backwards
Jun 16, 2005 7:21AM PDT

Re: "pretty sure that the system clipboard is overriding the office one."

It is the Office one that seems to get lost for you. It it were the default System one, that would be maintained even after closing Word.

But whichever, we need to find out why it doesn't work for you.

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you got it backwards
Jun 16, 2005 5:23PM PDT

I stand corrected. I would still be grateful with help finding a fix.

Alex

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Re: help with finding a fix.
Jun 16, 2005 6:16PM PDT

You didn't yet report the outcome of Bob's help with the disable office clipboard search in Google. It doesn't make much sense to suggest any solution without knowing what didn't work from that source.

Kees

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Re: help with finding a fix.
Jun 16, 2005 6:45PM PDT

I did try to disable the clipboard through the registry on a PC that does not have this problem,(I don't have immidiate access to the problematic one) and it still retains the data when word is exited and restarted. So I don't think that it it the source of the problem.

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That proves that ...
Jun 16, 2005 8:09PM PDT

with a disabled office clipboard it keeps the contents. Now try the same on your machine.

Kees

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That proves that ...
Jun 16, 2005 9:59PM PDT

The registry value was default. I changed value to disable and still the same problem.

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Were you trying to break a machine?
Jun 16, 2005 10:09PM PDT

I gave a method to fix a possible issue, not to break a machine (make it forget.)

As I see it, you may need to make a new post if you want to do the reverse of the fix.

Bob

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Were you trying to break a machine?
Jun 17, 2005 2:18AM PDT

No. I looked at the search results and assumed that you were pointing towards the disabling of the clipboard being the possible reason. In all cases I backed up registry keys and returned them after. No machines were broken in this process. Thanks for your help anyway.

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Recap.
Jun 17, 2005 3:32AM PDT

The Office clipboard if it fires up with an office application would result in this behaviour. Since you didn't try the fix on the machine with the issue, then what I offered is not applicable to those machines.

-> If you want to test if the fix I noted works by breaking a machine, then I'd have to offer notes on how to enable the office clipboard. But I didn't supply that.

Bob