Word 2007 Pasting Issue

T

TakeFive

All of a sudden, I can't seem to copy text off of a page on a website and
paste it into a 2007 Word doc. I've never had a problem before. Is there
something I can check?
 
G

Gary

Is it all web pages now that you can't copy/paste or just a specific one?
Some web pages are set up in a way that don't allow you to copy/paste.
 
T

TakeFive

Seems to be all of them. When I paste, I just get the "hourglass" (actually
in Vista, it's the circle spinning) and it never stops and pastes. I just
hit "Escape" to get out of it.
 
G

Gary

Ah. That can be caused (the hourglass) from trying to paste HTML into Word.
Try "Paste Special..." (Home ribbon, then click the lower half of Paste and
select "Paste Special...") and select "Unformatted Text."

You can paste HTML, but it can take awhile to finally show up.
 

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