Sue-sd126 said:
I saved some text from a Word document into a new document. Then I
used copy/paste to save the new document into another folder. The
document pasted as a "Scrap Object", not a Word Document. I'd like
to know what the scrap object means and why I got it. Is it a problem?
Read
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138275 about scrap objects. Basically,
a scrap object is a piece of a document rather than a complete document.
You got the scrap object because you (probably) copied the content of the
document and then pasted that into a folder, instead of either using File >
Save As or copying the file itself (not just its contents) from one folder
and pasting it into another. Think of it like this: You had a bag of candy
(the Word document) and you copied and pasted the candy (the scrap object)
but not the bag. The result isn't a bag of candy, but just a handful of
candy. If you want another bag of candy, you have to put the handful into a
new bag.
It's possible (depending on what you copied in the first place) that you
could drop the scrap object into a new blank document and find that it
contains everything you want from the original document.
If that doesn't work, then delete the scrap object, which will be useless.
Go to where you saved the "new document" mentioned in the first line of your
post, copy the whole file (don't bother opening it in Word), and then paste
that into the other folder.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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