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A Strange cut n paste query
FreddieM
Posts: 1,003 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
I often copy, cut and paste info onto a couple of forums I am a member of, but recently as I've gone to paste something. IE just closes on me. If it was only the one site I would maybe half understand the problem, but as it's doen it with now 3 sites I am a little befuddled. Has anyone any ideas what the problem may be??
If youcan lie down at night knowing in your heart that you just made someone’s day just a little bit better,you know you had a good day!!
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It's not the sites clearly, it's IE.
Open up two copies of notepad or some other text editor and see if you can paste text between them.
Sometimes the remote desktop clipboard crashes and you can't copy and paste any more. Not sure if there's a similar background process for normal copying and pasting. I take it a restart of the pc didn't fix it?They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0 -
Try running Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)0
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Ok.... I just pasted part of an email from my in box onto notepad then copied it from notepad in a Comic Sans Format onto the Joke thread here and although the font changed to Verdana it worked. I then did a similar thing onto a different forum using MS Word and IE closed down on me
Befuddled or what........... If youcan lie down at night knowing in your heart that you just made someone’s day just a little bit better,you know you had a good day!!0 -
It changing the font is fine, notepad doesn't keep any formatting options, it just changes the format you're viewing the file in, and doesn't save any font information when you save the file.
Word DOES keep formatting, so perhaps it's an addon that's messing up pasting text with formatting?
Can you paste formatted text from word to notepad? The formatting will be lost, but it'll let us know if you can at least paste. Can you copy and paste text from the forum to the forum? If you use quick reply and copy the last person to post's join date, down to thanks, there'll be some bold text in there so if it's a formatting thing it should crash.
Pasting text from word to the forum with formatting should work, keeping bold text or whatever.They say it's genetic, they say he can't help it, they say you can catch it - but sometimes you're born with it0 -
Can you paste formatted text from word to notepad? The formatting will be lost, but it'll let us know if you can at least paste. Can you copy and paste text from the forum to the forum? If you use quick reply and copy the last person to post's join date, down to thanks, there'll be some bold text in there so if it's a formatting thing it should crash.
Would seem so.............
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pss...... I can also copy from word to Notepad!!!!!If youcan lie down at night knowing in your heart that you just made someone’s day just a little bit better,you know you had a good day!!0
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