Re: Help with Word: Copy & Paste woes

[Peter Lewicke <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

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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