PASTE problems

[foolery]

Hi, folks. I looked through the forum before posting but didn't see my issue - SO -



I have recently been unable to COPY anything from webpages into Microsoft Office Word 2007. What I need to do regularly (and have been able to do previously) was highlight text on a webpage in IE9 (or Firefox, whatever), right click to COPY, then rick-click in Word to PASTE.

Now I cannot COPY anything anywhere but in Word and have it then PASTE back into Word - that is, if I try copying from ANY other program, I cannot PASTE anything into Word. IF, however, I COPY something from any Word document, I can PASTE that into another Word doc.

It's like Word only recognizes itself as a valid TEXT document. If I COPY something in Word (say, the term "faulty") I can paste "faulty" into any other Word document. If I then go into IE to a webpage, highlight, and COPY something there, when I go to PASTE back into Word, I get "faulty" again.

Anyone have any suggestions? I've checked TOOLS -> Internet Options -> and Custom Levels of the Security Zone with no change. I've deleted the HKEY-Users-Software-Microsoft-Office 12-Data lines with no change.

Thanks for any help.

Tom

[Charles Kenyon]

Try doing the copy and then pasting into Notepad. If you can't then what you've been trying to copy is not text but a picture of text (possibly in a pdf file).