When exiting Word 2013 with a "large" amount of data on the clipboard (even a 50kb photo) the exit process is halted with a message box:

"Would you like to keep the last item you copied?"
"If so, it may take us a bit longer to exit."



Besides the fact that the verbiage looks like a 6 year old scripted the dialog box, the time required to answer the question far exceeds the delay required to process the clipboard data on exit on any semi-modern hardware. I've looked through the options and advance options but cannot find a way to disable this prompt- anyone else have a suggestion? I'd like to always keep my data, thanks.

Scott

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That message box has been around for several versions. I don't know of a way to suppress it (but it may very well be hiding in a registry entry somewhere).

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
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