Word 2002 copy and paste

[Guest]

Word 2002 - copy and pasting text; when copying and pasting text from one
document to a new document, the pasted text is blue and underlined. Why
would this be happening?

 

[Bill Foley]

Your Track Changes is turned on. Look at the bottom middle of your screen.
You will see a "TRK" that is black. Double-click it to turn it off (gray)
and try again.

 

[Guest]

Worse yet, my CTRL+C (or X) and CTRL+V no longer works between Word and
Outlook (just got Office 2003 BASIC loaded). My clipboard stores the copy
data, but the only option I have is to delete it--all others are grayed.

I can paste copied data into Notepad, but nothing "sticks" when I try to
paste to Outlook.

What has happened????

A 20-year veteran of MS apps.