Trouble with cut and paste or copy and paste

G

Guest

I have Windows XP and the standard suite of Microsoft Office products. I
have had no trouble with my system until today. Any text I highlight and try
to cut and paste or copy and paste will not allow the operation to complete.
I can highlight the text fine, but when I go to the document I want to move
it to (or within the same document), the "Paste" function remains gray and
will not complete the copy, cut or paste operation. This problem is for all
text, be it in a MS Word document or if it is text on a website.

I have the latest virus protection and ran a deep scan just to make sure I
did not pick up a virus. My system is clean.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks
 
R

Ramesh, MS-MVP

This has to do with some application having a lock over the Windows
Clipboard. David Candy's application should determine the Process that's
causing the problem.

Download GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip from here:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/temp/GetOpenClipboardWindow.zip

Unzip and run the tool. Post back what it reports. For best results, run
this utility during the time you encounter the Copy<=>Paste problem.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I have Windows XP and the standard suite of Microsoft Office products. I
have had no trouble with my system until today. Any text I highlight and
try
to cut and paste or copy and paste will not allow the operation to complete.
I can highlight the text fine, but when I go to the document I want to move
it to (or within the same document), the "Paste" function remains gray and
will not complete the copy, cut or paste operation. This problem is for all
text, be it in a MS Word document or if it is text on a website.

I have the latest virus protection and ran a deep scan just to make sure I
did not pick up a virus. My system is clean.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks
 

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