W97: Problems w/ copy/paste: Text won't get positioned at the cursor

[Stefan Freimark]

Hi,

I've worked on a bunch of document templates for a commune. I used
Word2000 while the people in the town hall use Word97. Compatibility
options in "Tools, Options" are set to "Word97" on both sides.
The templates are saved as .dot files and the staff generates new
documents by double-clicking on the files in the Explorer. The templates
uses frames for positioning logos which are all protected ("Tools,
Protect Document"). Fields are also used both checkboxes and drop-downs
as well as text form fields and macrobuttons.

All works well but if the staff copies and pastes text, things are
getting screwed up. If formatted text is copied via Strg-C (no matter
where the text is from or how long it is) and inserted via Strg-V in one
of the templates, the insereted text appears on the far right side of
the document but not at cursor position (in the regular text float).
Funny thing: I'm not having this problem with W2000 on my WinXP in the
office; it only occurs on the computers in the town hall.
Notice that this strange behavior appears on all of their machines and
with all templates, so it's not a problem of a particular PC or file.

A work-around: Text can be inserted via "Edit, Paste Special" as
"Unformatted Text" but this isn't very convenient and of course all
formatting of the pasted text is gone.

Does anyone have any tips?


Thanks in advance,
Stefan

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[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Stefan,

All works well but if the staff copies and pastes text, things are
getting screwed up. If formatted text is copied via Strg-C (no matter
where the text is from or how long it is) and inserted via Strg-V in one
of the templates, the insereted text appears on the far right side of
the document but not at cursor position (in the regular text float).

I'd check with which style the pasted text is formatted, and then look at
the style definition. My guess is that this style my have right-aligned
formatting? Or is perhaps formatted as "right-to-left"?

Or maybe something in the townhall's system configuration is
"right-to-left"? (I've never used it, I just know it exists)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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