[softwarelist] Re: Paste options in OPW
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:36:03 GMT
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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