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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[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know the technical explanation but here's what it is: you have to open Word before you copy-paste. Then everything is just fine. What I figured was that for some reason, Word insists on being present for the whole cut and paste, not just the paste. Probably some kind of snob thing.