How to Drag and Drop text to a text box?

[Georgios Liakopoulos]

Hi,
I used to fill in text boxes in an access form by drag and drop text
from a web page. This used to work fine up to WinXP/Office2007 but since
I moved to Windows 7 this functionality is lost. When I drag a piece of
text on a text box the forbidden cursor appears.

It is clearly a Win 7 problem because in any Access 2007 accdb file the
drag and drop works in a WinXP machine but not in a Win 7 machine.

Can anyone help?
Thanks a lot
Giorgos

 

[Georgios Liakopoulos]

It is amazing what I discovered!! It's the IE8 that does not allow drag
and drop selected text to ANY application (see Wikipedia article about
IE8 (features removed)). How could they did THAT? It makes me feel like
when I discovered that Win 7 Starter does not permit you to change the
wallpaper. I guess I will have to use another browser!!!!

 

[Kathleen Morris]

What code did you use to drag and drop text into a box? I can't find this ANYWHERE!

 

[Mike Painter]

What code did you use to drag and drop text into a box? I can't find
this ANYWHERE!

" Earlier this year, "

In general there is no need for code. The text above was highlighted from a
Firefox browser under XP and dropped onto this page. (But I had to add the
quote amrks.)

 

[Georgios Liakopoulos]

Dear Kathleen,
Thanks for your reply. I do not use any code. Just using the GUI good
old 'drag and drop 'feature. Used to work nicely until IE 8!!!
Giorgos

 

[Georgios Liakopoulos]

Dear Mike,
You are right, there is no need for coding. But have you tried to do the
same with IE 8 or IE 9 beta?
Giorgos