Hi Mike,

It seems a recent Skype Click-to-Call browser add-in is causing problems like your pasting issues on many systems. If you have that, you may need to disable or uninstall this add-in until Skype releases a fix.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for that suggestion, Paul.

I had run through the complete Word 2002 manual tidy process in filestore and registry without finding any add-ins and without making any difference.

And I had installed Skype at about the same time as the problem arose (though I will go back and check the dates). So I had high hopes of your suggestion.

But unfortunately uninstalling that rather invasive Skype add-in (I won't miss it!) has not cured my problem either.

Since I don't have Excel, I will either have to do table editing via Works Spreadsheet or learn to use OpenOffice word processor instead...

Cheers, Mike.

Hi mjcoon,

Did you find the solution to your problem?Even I am not able to copy paste tables or formaula acroos my word documents and excel sheets. Its all text only suddenly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards
Akshay

Hi Akshay, the answer is yes and no... The problem has, as I said, gone away and I have just checked that behaviour is still as expected. But I do not know what the cause was.

I still have Skype and Chrome running, but not that "Skype Click-to-Call browser" that macropod mentioned. Maybe I had not only to de-install it but also re-boot which perhaps I did not do immediately. (My PC runs overnight to record wildlife.)

But I see that you system is much newer than mine, so it would be remarkable if your problem had the same cause as mine...

Good luck, Mike.

Thanks a bunch Mike!

Problem is resolved. Uninstalling skype - "Click on call" did the trick.