pasting yields "pdf logo"

[Scot]

I just received and installed Word 2002. I copied some
text from a document (other then in Word), opened Word
2002, and attempted to pasted the text. Instead of text
I received a small "pdf" logo. When I select the logo,
it is a picture object. This happes to all forms of text
that I try to paste. Very odd. I have been to the
knowledge base and scrutinized all of the options and
help menus in Word and am coming up short. Any help is
certainly appreciated!

 

[Rick]

I'd love to know where this comes from, too. Sometimes, I see three and four
of them in the clipboard task pane but have yet to figure out exactly what
action causes this to happen. It appears to be a picture of the PDFMaker
icon.

What program were you copying from? Also, did you happen to use the PDFMaker
sometimes prior to seeing this anomoly?

 

[Scot Schwallenberg]

Any text file produces this to happen. My problem is
that I can't retrieve the text, just the icon. When I
look @ it's properties, it is an image. I have copied
and pasted from Outlook, notepad, web content, you name
it. I recently purchased Paperport 9.0 and it has a PDF
converter. That is the only anomoly, as you so aptly put
it, source that I can think of. I have two almost
identical machines. One does it the other doesn't. I am
postulating that there has to be a simple switch to turn
this off, but I'll be dogged if I can find it. Let me
know how you make out. Should I find the solution, I
will notify you as well!

 

[Beth Melton]

The simple 'switch' is to remove the PDFmaker add-in from your
\Office\Startup folder found in the installation path.

It sounds like they are utilizing the Windows Clipboard to create the
icon for their toolbar when Word starts.

Otherwise you need to start Word before copying.

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