Well, that was certainly a smart inference to have made! Out of curiosity, I cycled over into a Word document I'm at work on and tried the same thing, looking at the Edit menu both without anything selected and then with a few words selected. But it didn't matter; there was no item on my edit menu related to the Clipboard. Now, I'm using Word 2000, for reasons of preferance about certain features. But let me guess, Judith, you're using a much more recent version of Word, probably, yes? Which one? preferenco----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:18 PM Subject: Mystery solved! After reading Yardbird's tip on alt e revealing various edit fields in outlook I went to word, hit alt e, arrowed and got to a function that read"clipboard B". At the time there was nothing there so I selected some text, copied it to the clipboard, unselected and went bback to the edit list. I hit b and it read exactly what I had copied to the clipboard! Mystery solved! Judith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.9/490 - Release Date: 10/20/2006 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx