Copy and Paste problems

Question

Very strange, When I select items on the web page, then click on copy with either the mouse or using the pull down menu under FILE, then open a blank WORD document, and expect to paste the contents....the option PASTE is not present. I then minimize the WORD document, go back to web page, select what I want, COPY it and then maximize the WORD Document and selct paste....bango, it works. It happens every time, I have to copy, paste, back to copy and then paste will work. Dimension 8200 Pentium 4 @ 1.8 Ghz 256 PC800 RDRAM 80 Gig Hard Drive - ATA/100 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 (Driver upgrade 2.8.3.2) 48X CD-Rom 24X10X/40x CD-RW Roxio Easy CDCreator BIOS A10 DirectX 8.1 Sound Blaster LIVE Value Digital 56 Telephone Modem Windows XP Home P992 FD Trinitron Monitor Norton Anti Virus

bluescreen · Answer

Let me guess....you have Word as part of Works Suite. In that situation, the wonderful folks at Microsoft have decided that launching Word will clear the clipboard, hence what you copied is banished to memory purgatory forever and you are forced to recopy to allow the paste. If it really hinders your efficiency you can remedy it by going to the add/remove programs in the Contol Panel and removing the Works Suite add-in for Word. (Or install one of the many 3rd party enhanced clipboard programs.)

Bergie1939 · Answer

Fantastic:

I’m so new to this computer stuff and continually amazed at people like yourself who are so knowledgeable.

Your guess was right on the $$$$ and I would prefer your second recommendation.
If I can indulge you for some more advice….any suggestions where I could find an enhanced clipboard program and what would be the correct procedure for installing it. I get nervous about removing things. I have learned that when one installs programs, Norton along with any other programs should be off.

Thanks again….appreciate your response.

Bergie

Denny Denham · Answer

Bergie1939,

There are links to three shareware clipboard replacements here. If you'd like to take the easy solution and simply remove the Word in Works add-in, the instructions for doing so are halfway down the page here.

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Bergie1939 · Answer

Thanks DD
Very impressive forum you have created. Great information and with all your links, I should be set.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I'm new with owning a computer and this is the second question I've posed the forum....good resource to say the least and many thanks to guy's like you.

Bergie

melonhead2 · Answer

Here is the fix for this very annoying problem, which I'm posting two months after the question was asked for anyone still searching the archives:

In the root directory, Program Files\Microsoft Works, delete the wkwdaddn.dll file.

Now Word can paste whether or not it was open before copying. I have not found any other problems caused by this solution.

olefin56 · Answer

Hi melonhead2,

Hey thanks, that is neat.

That is so simple and fast.

I just changed the file name by adding x. Just in case.

Dayton

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