Microsoft ate my words

[tamaranth]

Can anyone explain why, if I copy a chunk of text (Ctrl-C) and then open Microsoft Word (2002: may do Luddite thing and revert to 97), the clipboard empties itself?

This happens every time -- I write in NoteTab, spell-check and layout in Word -- and I'd vaguely assumed that what didn't work was pasting into Word. Now it looks as though I can't paste anywhere else, either.

Obviously not an insurmountable problem, but vexing. I presume it's to do with Word gobbling up all available resources. Any advance on that? saying 'use a pen and paper' is probably not very original

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

I can't reproduce it either on a low spec machine (PII 366 MHz, 296MB RAM, XP SP2, Word 2003 SP1). What OS, hardware spec?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Pentium 4, 2 gHz, 384MB RAM, Word 2002, XP.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

This version of Word is always terribly slow to load, too.

[miramon.livejournal.com]

Office apps loading slowly sometimes means that they're trying to run autoload macros. If you've got custom macros in there, they could be messing with the clipboard.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Then it ought to work. As Windows apps at work wiped out my Palm calendar today for no reason I wouldn't presume to hypothesise why it doesn't. I'm afraid I got so tired of this sort of crap I bought an iMac for home instead, so at least I get evenings and weekends off. :-)