[softwarelist] Re: Paste options in OPW

In message of 9 Nov, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is by way of an observation, rather than a "complaint" ...
> 
> Because of the RTF import problems I reported a while ago, I've resorted 
> to copying and pasting between MSWORD and OPW documents. I've noticed 
> one minor problem ... possibly aggravated by the fact that I'm copying 
> from the Mac version of WORD and pasting into OPW running under the 
> VMware Fusion Windows emulator.
> 
> My normal method is to select the text in the WORD document, and click 
> Edit>Copy ... then in OPW Edit>Paste Clipboard
> 
> So far, so good. However, every now and then <Paste Clipboard> is not 
> available in the Edit menu. This tends to happen after I have copied and 
> pasted some text within the OPW document ... thereafter, whatever I 
> think I've copied to the clipboard in MacOS isn't recognized by OPW/Windows.
> 
> Has anyone using OPW on a standard WinXP computer noticed this same 
> behaviour (i.e between WINWORD and OPW)?

Not quite a standard WinXP machine as it is running under Fusion on a
Mac but I can do the above copy and paste from Word in Windows to OPW
with no trouble.

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