unable to paste in MS Word from IE

[Guest]

Everytime I try to paste to my MS Word from a text I copied from IE, my MS
Word is frozen. I try to paste it in WordPad and it's fine.
Somehow I think my MS Word setting is screw up. I have no problem in the past.
Any suggestion?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?QWxleA==?=,

Everytime I try to paste to my MS Word from a text I copied from IE, my MS
Word is frozen. I try to paste it in WordPad and it's fine.
Somehow I think my MS Word setting is screw up.

Over the last few months we've been seeing numerous complaints about
copy/paste. And in every case the problem has turned out to be a third-party
software interfering with Word. Norton Antivirus Office-Addin has been one
culprit, but there have been a couple of others, as well.

Which version of Word is this?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Alex,

I had same problem and it is now fixed. Go to Posting: Subject: Re: howto
paste unformatted text automatically 1/19/2006 11:46 PM PST

By: Graham Mayor

By following Graham's advise and setting up a new Paste Unformatted Text
toolbar button with his Marco script I have no more issues with copying text
from IE to Document and word hanging.

Good Luck,
Rick

 

[Guest]

Cindy,

MS Word 2002 SP3 (Office XP)
I happen to install Norton SystemWorks 2006 Premier few weeks ago.
Is there a way out?

Thanks in advance,
Alex

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You don't need to do anything except disable the Office Plug-in in Norton
AntiVirus, as follows:

1. Open Norton AntiVirus (right-click on the Systray icon and choose this
option).

2. Click on the Options button at the top of the dialog.

3. In the Options dialog, click on Miscellaneous (menu on the left)

4. Clear the check box for "Enable Office Plug-in."

5. OK out and close NAV.

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

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[Guest]

Suzanne,

Unfortunately, it did not work.
I even went back to check the Norton Anti-virus option and the option
'Office plug-in' was unchecked.

I also try to cut the text from IE to WordPad and copy from WordPad to
MS-Word and it works this way.

Any thoughts would be appreciated?

 

[Guest]

Marilyn,
I cannot find that post.
I did the search 'how to paste' and it did not show.
Can you sort the result of the search by date or by name?

 

[Graham Mayor]

She actually posted most of it in her message. Basically it suggested using
a macro to edit > paste special > unformatted text. The code is

Sub PasteUnfText()
On Error GoTo oops
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Placement:= _
wdInLine
End
oops:
Beep
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In that case, you should be able to use Edit | Paste Special | As
Unformatted Text (or choose Unformatted Text from the Paste Options button
if you have that enabled.

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

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