Copying text from Email into a Word 2002 document

[retiredlady]

For years I've been able to copy a sentence or paragraph from an email (Yahoo
email) and copy it into a "New" or "Opened" Word document. I subscribe to
several groups for quilters who share helpful quilting hints.

About two months ago, something changed. Whenever I copy a portion of an
email* and try to paste it into either a new Word document or an opened
document, Word freezes and crashes (non responsive) and asks whether I should
send a message to Microsoft. *I notice that when I "select" it in the
email, it now takes black text on a white background and after the selection
it's white text on a blue background.

I am running MS Windows XP Professional, 2002, Service Pack 2, on a Dell
Inspiron 5100, and Word 2002 SP3. I have "repaired"/reloaded Word from the
original disk this week and that didn't help. I notice that my version of
word includes options for Asian text (Japanese / Chinese) but I don't seem to
be able to delete it... (Word, Tools, Options, "Asian Topography," and
"Japanese Find". Under Tools, Language, I have it set to ABC English
(U.S.), but that menu also offers "Japanese Consistency Checker," which I
don't recall having seen before. I've run Disk Clean-up and Disk
Defragmenter. I'm using Internet Explorer but don't know how to determine
which version is installed.

Thanks!

I just want to be able to collect "words of wisdom" from emails and paste
them into a Word document. Please help!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Start with http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm to
eliminate the mess from the crashes.

From Windows > Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Office Tools >
Office Language Settings - remove unwanted languages.

As for the copying from messages - this is probably attributable to changes
in Microsoft Windows security - select the text you wish to copy then use
edit > paste spacial > unformatted text or use the following macro to paste
the text:

Sub PasteUnfText()
On Error GoTo oops
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine
End
oops:
Beep
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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