Coping and pasting?

[oldy]

I've never had any trouble coping and pasting from the Internet to Works Word Processor then to file.

Until now!
When I try I'm getting a pop-up saying " this file is too large " even when it is only a few sentences.

Can someone explain what has happened and how this can be rectified

Thank you

[jackidevaney]

Hi. I am having the same problem. Never used to, now do! I can copy and paste from a saved Works document into a new one just fine. I can also copy from an email or internet and paste it into Notepad and them copy and paste it into a new Works document. But I CANNOT copy and paste anything from an email or the internet.

I notice your post was last October. I am wondering if you found a solution to it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldy

I've never had any trouble coping and pasting from the Internet to Works Word Processor then to file.

Until now!
When I try I'm getting a pop-up saying " this file is too large " even when it is only a few sentences.

Can someone explain what has happened and how this can be rectified

Thank you

[oldy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackidevaney

Hi. I am having the same problem. Never used to, now do! I can copy and paste from a saved Works document into a new one just fine. I can also copy from an email or Internet and paste it into Notepad and them copy and paste it into a new Works document. But I CANNOT copy and paste anything from an email or the Internet.

I notice your post was last October. I am wondering if you found a solution to it?

Hi Jackidevaney
I'm like you -don't know what went wrong ?
After trying numerous things I've finally found out how to do it this way ....

1/ Highlight and copy as normal off the Internet
2/ Go into Word Word Processor
CLICK onto Edit
CLICK Paste Special
CLICK on Unformatted text to highlight it then click again

This should paste what you have copied (fingers crossed)

Let me know how you have got on !

[jackidevaney]

Hi Oldie,

Thank you very much! It works for me too. :-) Want to here something interesting? I posted that question to you a while ago and then did a Google search and came up with this site: Can't copy & paste to MS Works • mozillaZine Forums
and got the same information that you gave me. I had just tried it and found that it worked and then noticed your reply! :-) Interesting huh? I think this is a blessing. :-)
I also started with some problems with MS Word about the same time as the problem with Works started. I did a system restore back as far as they would let me, and they would both work until I turned the computer off and turned it on again. Interesting. Wish I knew more about computers. Well, thanks again.
Jacki

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldy

Hi Jackidevaney
I'm like you -don't know what went wrong ?
After trying numerous things I've finally found out how to do it this way ....

1/ Highlight and copy as normal off the Internet
2/ Go into Word Word Processor
CLICK onto Edit
CLICK Paste Special
CLICK on Unformatted text to highlight it then click again

This should paste what you have copied (fingers crossed)

Let me know how you have got on !

[oldy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackidevaney

Hi Oldie,

Thank you very much! It works for me too. :-) Want to here something interesting? I posted that question to you a while ago and then did a Google search and came up with this site: Can't copy & paste to MS Works • mozillaZine Forums
and got the same information that you gave me. I had just tried it and found that it worked and then noticed your reply! :-) Interesting huh? I think this is a blessing. :-)
I also started with some problems with MS Word about the same time as the problem with Works started. I did a system restore back as far as they would let me, and they would both work until I turned the computer off and turned it on again. Interesting. Wish I knew more about computers. Well, thanks again.
Jacki

Glad it has worked
Lets hope other people will see this write-up to get them out of the same problem.

I still would like to know what has gone wrong especially when all was working perfectly 6mths ago
It might have something to do with up-dates we have downloaded , I cannot think of anything else!

Regards Oldy

[jackidevaney]

I think it must have had something to do with something that I downloaded too. That guy on the other site where I found the same answer you gave me, had the problem after updating Foxfire. I will tell you that restoring your computer to Factory restore doesn't fix the problem. I thought and hoped that it would. Nope. Anyway, I am glad to find a solution. And thank you again! :-)

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldy

Glad it has worked
Lets hope other people will see this write-up to get them out of the same problem.

I still would like to know what has gone wrong especially when all was working perfectly 6mths ago
It might have something to do with up-dates we have downloaded , I cannot think of anything else!

Regards Oldy

[Lazarus]

I'm having a similar problem with Office 2007 documents -- going between Word documents, and between Word and e-mail messages. Wasn't like this until very recently, so I suspect that one of their MS updates has run amok. Also wondering if our other problem, with icons moving around on the desktop after saving modified files, has the same source.

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Originally Posted by jackidevaney

I think it must have had something to do with something that I downloaded too. That guy on the other site where I found the same answer you gave me, had the problem after updating Foxfire. I will tell you that restoring your computer to Factory restore doesn't fix the problem. I thought and hoped that it would. Nope. Anyway, I am glad to find a solution. And thank you again! :-)

[jackidevaney]

Hi guys,

Well, interestingly enough, now my computer works to copy and paste from email or the internet, into Works Word processor. I pasted "special" for a while and then tried to do it by right clicking and pasting and it works every time now. Don't ask me what is going on. You all might want to give it a try now and see if yours works now. :-)

Jacki

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackidevaney

I think it must have had something to do with something that I downloaded too. That guy on the other site where I found the same answer you gave me, had the problem after updating Foxfire. I will tell you that restoring your computer to Factory restore doesn't fix the problem. I thought and hoped that it would. Nope. Anyway, I am glad to find a solution. And thank you again! :-)