copy problem

[Docthomas]

if I copy something (Ctrl+c or highlight and right click copy) from a webpage to share with someone. or if I copy an email address. then I open outlook and open a mail message. If I hit paste, nothing happens.

if I open outlook, open a new message THEN copy/paste it works fine.

i'm sure there is some goofy setting somewhere but I cannot seem to get it to work.

so I end up copying something then opening outlook then hitting paste ...grumbling... then repeating with email open and it works. appears to be FF, Chrome and IE

ideas?

Outlook 2003

 

[Corazon]

Exactly where are you trying to paste? Are you making sure that whichever text field you want to paste into currently has the focus (i.e. shows a blinking cursor)?
Usually you just leftclick once into the text field and then paste...shouldn't be any problem.

 

[HammerHead]

Ctrl + V

Some times to be successful at a paste I have to use Ctrl +V. I don't know why.

 

[Docthomas]

I'm pasting into the body of the email and yes I have already clicked inside to make it active.

 

[Corazon]

Re-reading your first post again, I noticed you said you first tried pasting into an existing email, and only then into a new, empty one (i.e. when you go to compose a new message to someone).

Am I getting that right? If so, it's pretty simple - you can't paste into an existing message - you'd have to hit the Reply button first.

 

[Docthomas]

No sorry.
I copy txt or an email address from a browser
Then open outlook.
Click new message
Click on body of email or the address line
Right Click and paste is not an option. Ctrl v yields nothing.

Go back to browser then repeat (with new email already open) all works fine

 

[Corazon]

Hmm, that's unusual.

You're not closing the browser after copying text from it (before you try to paste it in your email client), right?
I find that at least with some programs, doing so automatically clears the clipboard buffer so nothing is left to paste.

 

[Docthomas]

That is correct and has happened since day 1 of win 7. Just finally got around to being annoyed enough to ask about it

 

[Corazon]

Understandable - but I really don't know what the issue could be, unless it's simply a bug in Outlook. Does the "paste-and-nothing-happens" bug occur with anything else besides Outlook too?

I should actually ask...since Windows 7 comes with "Windows Mail", not Outlook (same thing really but different name), are you talking about the Outlook included with MS Office?

 

[Docthomas]

This is outlook 2003 part of MS Office 2003

but I just experimented with it a little further. i copied a URL from FF (select Right Click copy) then I opened IE and right clicked, no paste option. now that IE is already open if I repeat the process it works fine. so not unique to Outlook as I had once thought.

 

[Corazon]

My best guess is that something is clearing your clipboard whenever you open a new program. That shouldn't happen of course, and I don't know what could be responsible for it. Some overly aggressive security setting of some kind?

I wish I had a better idea.

 

[Imperfect1]

There are several different ways to Copy and Paste, and occasionally, for whatever reason, one of them just doesn't work in certain instances. I find, for example, that it does NOT always work when I just highlight the text, click on Copy and then try to Paste --- I get nothing. BUT if I highlight the text, then right-click and select Copy, for whatever reason, when I go to Paste that text, it works.