Re-Na Not an answer, but my post may help you decide it is not your computer. I highlighted an copied your email, went to word, clicked on edit to find "paste" was dimmed, no icon though. I went back to your email, rehighlighted, returned to word which I had minimized to click on edit and found that "paste" was NOT dimmed. I clicked paste and down your email pasted. I noticed right at the end of your email in word, there was an icon, that when I moved the pointer over it, the message was, "paste options". The options had to do with carrying the format with the paste, picking up the format of the selections already in word, etc. I'll be watching for a poster that knows what they are speaking of. ----- Original Message ----- From: "G.R. Hanson" <grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "PCHelpers" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 2:10 PM Subject: [pchelpers] copy paste puts a pdf icon in Word > Why is it when I do a copy and paste into Word, many times instead of pasting > the info, I get a little pdf icon symbol instead. > Sometimes I have to go back and forth, copying and pasting it over and over > several times before the text pastes. > ??? > Re-Na Hanson / Arkansas USA > > > > > --- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.