Cannot paste to Word from Yahoo e-mail text

[jim.mar]

For several weeks now I have been unable to Copy text on my Yahoo e-mail(control C) and then Paste it onto a Word doc (control V).  Each time that I try, the computer goes into an operational loop of some kind. When I do Cont.-Alt-Del I get the message that "Word" is not responding.   I am running Windows XP (2002) on a 3 year old home built machine with 1Gb ram, 160 Gb hard drive, cpu is AMD Athlon 1800+ , 1.3 Ghz.  Like I said, this started months ago and I did nothing about it.  I used notepad instead but I would like to correct it if possible.  Any ideas any one??  :-/

[Calum]

Do you know what happened before this started?
Try right click - copy, right click - paste instead of the shortcuts, does it still happen?

[soybean]

If you paste into Word as unformatted text, will it work?  To do this, go to Edit, Paste Special, and select Unformatted Text.

[fat_basterd21]

I have the same problem pasting to yashoo mail, I guess because its flash or something.... What I found does work is to highlite the text click and drag it straight to yahoo mail.... I never tried it yahoo-word but this maybe some help...

[jim.mar]

Soybean,   Tried it, no luck.  Therer is no paste special option on my word.
Fat_b.......  Thanks for the info but dragging it has the sae effect as trying to paste.

[soybean]

What version of Word do you have?  Every version since Word 97, and maybe some versions preceeding Word 97 have that option.  THEY ALL HAVE IT.  When you go to Edit from your Word toobar, what options do you see there?

[jim.mar]

Soybean;   Tks tks tks,  That is it.   Don't know what I was missing the first time.   It was using paste inHTML
format.  Clicking any of the others will do it.  Thank you again.
Thanks to you also fat....b,  I appreciate your efforts and help

[soybean]

You should also be able to use a two step procedure of copying from Yahoo e-mail to Notepad and then copy from Notepad to Word.  Notepad does not retain any formatting, so  this has the same effect as using the Paste Special option in Word.

Also, to speed up the technique in Word, you can create a simple macro to execute the Edit/PasteSpecial/Unformatted Text sequence, add a custom button to your Word toolbar, assign the macro to that button, and then just click on the button to execute Edit/PasteSpecial/Unformatted Text.  It's one click of the mouse instead of 3 or 4.  I've added that to my Word 2003 and I wouldn't want to use Word without it.

[jim.mar]

Soybean:  How do I crate that special button on the word toolbar??

[soybean]

Let's take this step by step.  Do you know how to record a macro in Word?  Are you familiar with using Word's Help to find info on various techniques and procedures?

[soybean]

Here's what my Word toolbar looks like:


The pencil icon circled in red in my one-click button to execute Edit/PasteSpecial/Unformatted Text.

[jim.mar]

[size=14]SOYBEAN  Yes, i am somewhat familiar with help files.   :-? Altho this one about macros is confusing to me.   I have tried this:  call up WORD - tools - macros -word command - paste format - run.......zilch.  I am back to where i started.  :-/   I don't know what i am doing, that's for sure.   Got nee more hints?? Also how did you get the shortcut onto the word toolbar??   I appreciate you try ing to help me out here.  Don't give up on yet,  thanks

[soybean]

The menu commands to record a macro: Tools, Macro, Record New Macro.  Please search Word's Help on Create macro for more detailed instructions and experiment with that until you're able to record a macro.  

When you're done with that, let me know.   Then, we can add the custom button to the toolbar and link it to the macro.

[fat_basterd21]

Now were talkin!!!!  I need to stay up on this...

[jim.mar]

[size=14]OK, got it (i think) WORD - TOOLS - MACRO - RECORD NEW MACRO - Write in name for macro [size=18]Click on KEYBOARD  then press the desired key combo ( I used Contr+1) then, using the mouse, click on EDIT - PASTE SPECIAL - UNFORMATED TEXT  - OK.   tHEN CLICK THE "stop recording" [size=14][/size] ICON.    ok ? ?   Whats nextt? ?[/size][/size]