Don't wipe out the system clipboard when entering WORD

[Guest]

I just lost about 5 minutes of typing because of the DUMB way WORD handles
the clipboard. I was keying in a SUGGESTION Norton about one of their DUMB
products (GHOST v9.0). After keying in their miniature suggestion box for 5
minutes I decided it would be better to create the SUGGESTION in WORD and
then either paste it into their box or find another way to get it to them. I
CUT the text that I had keyed in and then opened WORD to paste it into a new
document. You know the result. WORD thinks it knows more about clipboards
than XP so it wipes out whatever is on the clipboard and creates its own
clipboards. As a result I lost EVERYTHING that I had type. This isn't the
first time this BUG has bit me but I'd sure like to make it the last.

 

[Guest]

If you hadn't copied anything else after you copied the text from the Norton
window, you should have been able to do a Ctrl-V. It may not show up on the
clipboard, but I've never had that fail, unless the copy didn't take.

Lexi

 

[Guest]

Nope, I tried it. I highlighted the original post that I created and then
opened up WordPad and was able to paste the text into WordPad. I then opened
up Word and tried Ctrl-V, NOTHING. I then retried pasting to WordPad and
NOTHING. WORD completely wipes out the system clipboard when it starts up.