[mso] Re: Copy-paste problems with Outlook
- From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 00:47:07 +1000
Unfortunately, that info is more baffling than useful to me. :-( I
expected it either to work properly or to perhaps give you the circle with a
bar through it that indicates "you can't put it there".
Are you having any problems with drag/drop or copy/paste in any other
Windows programs / office applications?
It really sounds as though Outlook is in a mess and is not conducting the
correct dialogue with the receiver of the action to allow an agreement on
the actual transfer, although it will negotiate with the desktop enough to
stop the crossed circle coming up.
I do start to wonder if your problem might be in Windows Explorer not
accepting the drop/paste, rather than in Outlook not providing the
information. Not quite sure how to test this though.
I just grabbed an Outlook message with a few Word files in it and had a
play. If I opened a new Word document, I could drag the attachments
straight out of Outlook into the Word document as embedded objects. (I
couldn't drag them to the title bar of the Word window to be opened as Word
documents, nor could I drop them onto an icon of Word to open a new instance
of Word, however.)
I could also drag them into the body of an Outlook Express message (this
message in fact) and they appeared as attachments, which hopefully I've now
deleted.
Neither of these activities should involve Windows Explorer in any way. If
they work for you, then you can probably blame Windows Explorer. If they
fail, that mightn't prove anything.
If Windows Explorer is bad, you might have to reinstall/recover the
operating system.
Sorry I can't be more help. This long-range analysis is a bit iffy,
particularly when I don't have quite enough knowledge of how drag/drop and
copy/paste are actually implemented.
Regards, Dave S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Teague" <hlynur74@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 11:38 PM
Subject: [mso] Copy-paste problems with Outlook
> Hi David.
> Drag-dropping an attachment from Outlook to the desktop looks OK until I
> release the mouse button over the desktop; then nothing happens. That is,
> the cursor changes to a + sign and a line appears on the desktop where the
> file should appear, but nothing appears when I release the button. Is this
> info useful?
>
> Daniel
>
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