Cut and Paste problems in Word 2004

[Lou Terwilliger]

Recently, I have been unable to cut and paste text in Word 2004
doucments (cut text will not paste). My documents sent to other
computers do not have this problem, indicating that it is not an issue
with the file. Re-installing Office did not help.

Any ideas?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Recently, I have been unable to cut and paste text in Word 2004
doucments (cut text will not paste). My documents sent to other
computers do not have this problem, indicating that it is not an issue
with the file. Re-installing Office did not help.

How are you trying to cut and paste? Have you tried both the keyboard
shortcut (CMD-v) and the Edit/Paste menu command (in case one of them
has been reassigned)?

How did you reinstall Office - i.e., did you run the Remove Office
application? If not, some files probably made it through the reinstall.

Please don't be offended, but have you ruled out a hardware problem
(e.g., CMD-V doesn't work in *any* app?).

 

[Mark Harris]

I am having this problem also. When I cut text, usually in Notebook view,
either with comand-x or the toolbar, the text disappears; when I try to
paste, the spinning pinwheel shows up and Word 2004 stops responding.
Nothing I've tried seems to help. Please let me know if you've got a
workaround!

Mark

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Mark:

Not doing it here. Note that Word uses HTML (XML actually) as an
intermediate format going to and from the clipboard.

If the section that you cut and paste contains something that can't be
expressed in HTML, all hell breaks lose.

If you *think* it's "text" you are pasting, try Edit>Paste
Special>Unformatted Text.

If it is text, you will get your text without the formatting.

If that fixes it, you have a corruption in your document: proceed as for
de-corrupting a document. Forget the involved stuff about the last
paragraph mark, that corruption is in the area you are cutting and pasting.

The first thing to check is that Tracked Changes are highlighted on screen
and visible. Chances are the corruption is unresolved tracked changes
building up in the document.

It may also be a corruption in your Normal template, but I think that's
unlikely.

What happens if you cut and paste in Normal View? Normal View is a simpler
view that requires less processing power to generate. You will often get
away with things in Normal View that blow up in the other views.

Hope this helps

I am having this problem also. When I cut text, usually in Notebook view,
either with comand-x or the toolbar, the text disappears; when I try to
paste, the spinning pinwheel shows up and Word 2004 stops responding.
Nothing I've tried seems to help. Please let me know if you've got a
workaround!

Mark

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