copy-paste oddness

[davidwb]

I’ve been using Mac:Office for years and suddenly developed a
copy/paste problem on my computer at work. If I copy text, start up
Word, and attempt to paste, the data isn’t pasted into Word. I can
start up other (non-Office) applications and paste the text, but not
Word. However, if Word is already running when I copy the text, I can
paste it into Word. Any ideas?

 

[Elliott Roper]

I¹ve been using Mac:Office for years and suddenly developed a
copy/paste problem on my computer at work. If I copy text, start up
Word, and attempt to paste, the data isn¹t pasted into Word. I can
start up other (non-Office) applications and paste the text, but not
Word. However, if Word is already running when I copy the text, I can
paste it into Word. Any ideas?

Have you added any macros to Normal or your startup add-in (global
template) recently? Could one of them be clearing the clipboard or
loading something new in there?

A simple test would be to ask finder to show clipboard before and after
starting Word.