ReNa, have you recently upgraded Internet Explorer. I seem to recall that you were using Version 5 and I remember when I had Version 5 I could also paste directly to Perfect Office. I do not have an answer for the problem but it does seem to have something to do with a recent release of IE and OE. Cy ----- Original Message ----- From: "G.R. Hanson" <grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 19:17 PM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: copy paste puts a pdf icon in Word > I've had to paste things into notepad before to get them to 'erase' the > formatting so it would display right in Word. I know this works. > > But I didn't 'use to' have to do this step. Before, when I pasted to Word it > went to Word, not giving me that icon for pdf. I was just wanting to know > how to get that to stop really. (I did know that pasting to notepad would > erase the formatting and have done that many times before.) > > Anyway, I guess I'll have to do this 'extra' step if someone can't come up > with what I can do to make the pdf file icon stop appearing. > > Thanks. > > 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.