Re: Help with Word: Copy & Paste woes

Subject: Re: Help with Word: Copy & Paste woes
From: Peter Lewicke <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Abby Klemmer <aklemmer -at- factset -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:52:12 -0700 (PDT)

Since you don't have the problem with her files, it
probably is a problem with your collegue's copy of
Word. Reinstalling Word might correct the problem.
That is what I would try first.

--- Abby Klemmer <aklemmer -at- factset -dot- com> wrote:

> Hello Techwrl-ers,
>
> A colleague of mine is having a Word problem.
>
> (Note: We are both running Word 2003, Service Pack1
> on Windows XP
> Professional. We are both viewing our documents in
> "Print Layout.")
>
> In Word docs with regular "body text," inserted
> images, and Autoshape
> callouts, I can copy and paste text just fine. For
> example, I can copy
> text from one callout directly into the text of
> another callout; I can
> copy text from a separate document's footer and
> paste it directly into a
> new document's footer. Everything works as I'd
> expect it to.
>
> My colleague is not so lucky -- when she tries to
> paste text into a
> callout, the text mysteriously appears in the
> body-text of the document,
> _not_ in the callout. Ditto for when she tries to
> paste text into the
> header or footer; the text just appears as normal
> body-text in the "main
> text" of the document.
>
> However, when I open her documents, everything works
> fine for me.
>
> As you can imagine, this is very frustrating.
>
> We looked in Word's online help but couldn't find
> anything helpful; we
> also tried checking our Edit preferences, but
> couldn't find any immediate
> clues as to why this works for me and not for her.
>
> Any advice from Word gurus out there? Thank you in
> advance!
>
> Abby Klemmer
> FactSet Research Systems
>
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