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

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[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V as a matter of course: have tried the alternate 'Paste' options and they don't work either.

I'm not installing more software to fix something that should work in the first place. As bugshaw suggests, the easiest option is not to do the thing that doesn't work. But I do want to know why it doesn't work.