I'm unable to "right click" in Word. How can I fix it?!

[Allie]

I can type fine, but I can't not "right click" to highlight, correct spelling
or cut & paste.

 

[Terry Farrell]

See all the previous postings on this subject over the last couple of days.

 

[arjhutch]

Did you ever get a better answer to this? I have been trying to highlight a
misspelled word and then right click on it but it doesn't show me cut, copy
or paste.

 

[Terry Farrell]

There has never been an option to Cut/Copy/Paste when you right-click on a
mis-spelled word. It is not part of the context sensitive spelling menu.

 

[arjhutch]

I've been highlighting misspelled words, copying them, and pasting them into
my browser for definitions for years. This is a new problem I'm having at a
new work place, which is why I thought it might be a settings situation.
However, I have been experimenting and have noted that when I go into the
options area under spelling and grammer and unselect "check spelling as you
type" then the cut/copy/paste selection appears when I right click after
highlighting. This has never happened to me before, I was always able to
right click on a highlighted word (misspelled or otherwise) and select copy.
However, this is the first time I've had to change my settings to do this.
Any suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I see it on that menu in Word 2003.

 

[Terry Farrell]

If you see it in Word 2003, maybe you have added to the menu yourself? You
can edit the context sensitive menus just like other menus - though they can
be tricky to work out which menu is the one you want to edit. But a clue
will be that cut/copy/paste will be missing whereas the majority of the
menus have those. I always delete them from all my menus and only every use
the keyboard shortcuts.

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

They're there by default in Word 2003. Perhaps you have removed them as
excess?

 

[Beth Melton]

The Cut/Copy/Paste commands were added by default to the spelling/grammar
shortcut menus in Word 2002.

As Suzanne noted, perhaps you removed them?

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[Terry Farrell]

Probably I did remove them from W2003, but not from W2007. They are
definitely not there by default though in W2007.

Terry