Retrieving previous copied text

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Guest

I copied text and pasted it. Then I copied and pasted more text. There were
fields missing and when I went back to fix it, it erased my document. When I
tried to re-paste, it pasted the last item, not the previous. How do I
retrieve the earlier pasted text?
 
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PopS

in message
:I copied text and pasted it. Then I copied and pasted more
text. There were
: fields missing and when I went back to fix it, it erased my
document. When I
: tried to re-paste, it pasted the last item, not the previous.
How do I
: retrieve the earlier pasted text?

It's probably gone for good unless you can locate it in a .tmp
file maybe. Next time that happens, try to Ctrl-Z (Undo) your
way back to the original document prior to the problem appearing.

HTH,
Pop
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

Provided the doc is still open, Undo back to before you cut/copied will
still work.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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J

Joe McGuire

The Clipboard might help you. It shows a bit of each item you copied in its
window and you can avoid pasting the wrong stuff.
 

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