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[rabidsamfan]

Okay computer types out there... Why would my clipboard suddenly refuse to copy from Internet Explorer to Word? And occasionally vice versa?

It's getting very annoying!

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[elasg.livejournal.com]

Reboot... I've had that happen too. Not sure what causes it, but rebooting usually fixes it for me.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, when I'm forced to reboot I do, but I got bitten badly by a virus that set its tentacles when you restarted the machine so I'm chary of it. And besides, on the advice of the guy in Best Buy I bought the student/teacher version of Office (he said librarians counted) and it turned out that I need a school code to register the darn thing. So I've been keeping Word open for weeks at a time and hibernating the machine instead of turning it off trying to stretch out the day until I have to go in and put down 400 on the regular Office package.

[elasg.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... Ouch. OK. Try going into the task manager and shutting down the clipboard process, if you know the name of the process.

What version of Word do you have? I can give you an Office 97 if you want one (and probably a copy of Office 2000 if you don't ask too many questions. ;)) You game?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*squirrely frown* Not really sure. It's Office Standard XP for Students and Teachers, and I think it's equivalent to Office 2000. I'm game for details though. My E-mail is rabidsamfan at gmail now.

[katakanadian.livejournal.com]

I know that repairing permissions can fix little glitches like that sometimes on a Mac. Can you do that on Windows?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

If I knew what permissions were I'd try it! (I am so very self-taught...)

[katakanadian.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if you can do it but on my machine you go to applications>utilities>disk utility. In that you select a volume/drive and click repair permissions.

Maybe send Ancalime an email since she works with that kind of thing.

[arwen-baggins.livejournal.com]

Mine does that occassionally but it never lasts. I haven't got the slightest clue. Sorry about that.