copy does not work in word 2003

[jpfossey]

I can't seem to copy from word 2003. I select text but it won't take it. I
can copy from an e-mail and paste into word, but word doesn't seem to want to
copy, either from one word document to another or into my e-mail. It's been
working fine for almost four years, it just acted up. Any suggestions?

 

[Terry Farrell]

The usual reason is some third party add-in that is messing with the Office
clipboard. If you start Word in Safe Mode, can you copy/paste normally then?
From Start | Run (Winkey+R), type in

winword /a

and press Enter. Word will start in Safe Mode. Open two documents and try
copy/paste between them now. Does it work?