paste leaves an icon, not copied text

[Howard]

Office 2003 issue. Several people in our org at various times have
experienced the following: Copy text - paste it in same document or different
document results in an image or icon - looks like an envelope. Running Detect
and Repair sometimes fixes, but not always. Must be a Clipboard issue. Can't
find ANYTHING on the web related to this.

When it happens, it affects all Office Suite apps, not just Word or Outlook.

User can select and drag text to another document, etc., but copy/paste
function pastes this funky icon. Any ideas out there? Anyone else with this
problem?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555173 "WD: The Windows Clipboard
Content is Modified When Word Starts".

 

[Howard]

Thanks for the link help! I'll try to get to one of those computers that is
having the issue. It being an intermittent kind of bug, it is real vexing
trying to get a fix for it. Much appreciated and I will let you know how it
turns out.