Problem pasting from Word to other applications

[Robin]

I have Word 2002 as part of Works suite.

Sometimes I can copy/paste within Word but cannot copy/paste to other
applications, such as into a website in IE or Firefox.

This is an intermittent problem. All will be well for a while then it
occurs and continues. It seems it may affect one part of a document
but not another. Sometimes I copy elsewhere and come back to the
original problem area and it works. Sometimes the problem is cured by
exiting and reopening Word, but sometimes not.

Clues:
- When looking in Paste Special, unformatted text may not be
available, though this is not always so.
- I use Clipmate. In the Clipmate title window I should see the text
to be copied. In fact it says "Other:" followed by date and time. The
tabbed type-windows available are RTF and HTML but not Text. Even
these type-windows are empty.
- The problem occurs even when not using Clipmate, so that does not
seem to be the at the origin of the problem.
- I have uninstalled and reinstalled Word. No help.
- When the fault is about to happen the copy takes a little longer. I
can tell this as when using Clipmate there is a beep on copying.

Robin

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The problem may be caused at least in part by the Microsoft Works Suite
Add-in for Word, which clears the Clipboard when you start Word. If you are
running Word freestanding, you should uninstall this add-in (through Control
Panel | Add/Remove Programs), which causes many other problems in Word.

 

[Robin]

Thanks Suzanne, but that's not it. I don't have the add-in installed,
and what you describe is different from my problem.

I did find though that Works setup launcher, which I tried to remove,
says there is a problem and it wants to install the add-in. Probably
completely unrelated, but I'll let it install the add-in and then
remove it properly.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you want to be able to start Word from the Works Task Launcher, then you
do need to have the add-in, but many people get Works Suite just to get Word
and then use Word separately.