Hi Jonathan, Monday, January 19, 2004, 10:45:50 PM, you wrote: JS> If I want to "copy and paste" text AND FORMATTING I click edit, copy, --- JS> edit, paste, .... [you know the drill]. If I want to copy the text only, JS> with no formatting, I highlight the text then press "control & C" then JS> "control and V". JS> I noticed totaly by accident that ctrl C then Ctrl V pastes only text, not JS> boxes or font size, etc. or etc. It's probably the specific program that you're copying or cutting from that has this differing functionality. I tried cutting and pasting from a web page (go to http://www.google.com, and click on a blank spot first) to a Word document, and it worked identically both ways for me. --Scott. 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.