Cut and paste problem. Help please.

Alan_Cross

Suddenly I am unable to cut and paste from my wordprocessor (OpenOffice) to my email, either hotmail or yahoo.

I always use C+Ctrl for cut and V+Ctrl for paste. It still works for transferring from other sources (e.g. web pages) to email but not from the wordprocessor. I am sure I used to be able to do this... or am I imagining it?

Please could anyone help?

BritRael

It's the other way around; ctrl+c for example.

btw, ctrl+c is copy not cut; that's ctrl+x

But, yes, it should work

Alan_Cross

BritRael wrote: »

It's the other way around; ctrl+c for example.

btw, ctrl+c is copy not cut; that's ctrl+x

But, yes, it should work

Ok... but it doesn't. Hence the request for help...

busenbust

If the problem still persists could you perhaps try reinstalling Open Office.

Alan_Cross

busenbust wrote: »

If the problem still persists could you perhaps try reinstalling Open Office.

Yes, that is a thought.

I was wondering whether anyone knows of a ready solution which would not necessitate this.

McKneff

Have you tried right click - copy

new doc - right click paste.

It may be that your cntrl button isnt working,
worth a try at least.

dgerati

Nah, reinstalling an application because something doesn't quite work is a bit like rebuilding a house because the wall colours are not to your taste. You'd only rebuild the house if the house was knackered, not one feature of it!

There must be something going on, something fishy. Have you tried selecting the text to copy and right clicking to copy that way? If there is something wrong copy will likely be greyed out in the context menu (the menu that appears when you right-click)

Alan_Cross

McKneff wrote: »

Have you tried right click - copy

new doc - right click paste.

It may be that your cntrl button isnt working,
worth a try at least.

Nope, that doesn't work.

The Ctrl button IS working because, as mentioned, the same technique worked from other sources.

By the way, the other way round is fine - it seems I CAN copy and paste from email to wordprocessor!

Alan_Cross

dgerati wrote: »

Nah, reinstalling an application because something doesn't quite work is a bit like rebuilding a house because the wall colours are not to your taste. You'd only rebuild the house if the house was knackered, not one feature of it!

There must be something going on, something fishy. Have you tried selecting the text to copy and right clicking to copy that way? If there is something wrong copy will likely be greyed out in the context menu (the menu that appears when you right-click)

'Copy' is not greyed out when I do this. The function just doesn't work and this seems to be happening ONLY for pasting from wordprocessor to email.

dgerati

Ok, try copying and pasting into OpenOffice, itself. That way we would know it's definately openoffice that's playing up.

Beyond that, I can't help you 'cos I don't use OpenOffice!!

dgerati

Alan_Cross wrote: »

'Copy' is not greyed out when I do this. The function just doesn't work and this seems to be happening ONLY for pasting from wordprocessor to email.

Sorry I'm overlapping with posts!

If you can copy, but not paste, then I would think it is the destination, rather than the source, that has issues...