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by sralls

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Good Day All !!
I have Windows 98, IE Version 6, and use Outlook Express as my mail program. I wanted to copy some instructions to Wordpad, highlighted the portion to be copied, right-clicked and clicked "copy", opened Wordpad, clicked on the body of the blank wordpad and right clicked,,clicked on "paste" However the document was not copied onto Wordpad.
Any tips?
Thanks
Steve

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by sralls

I do not wish to use Word, I want to use the Wordpad, but I tried Word, and got an error when I attempted to paste the information into the body of the Word Screen.Error not specified.

by joe

After highlight try the key combination

Ctrl C and than go to wordpad and use Ctrl V
Hope that helps.

by thechas

Is this from HTML content e-mail?
I have seen HTML content that doesn't copy.
This often happens when the content is in an image type file, or uses a font that you do not have installed.

Chas

by sralls

My e-mail is HTML,I don't know what the sender's email is, it wasn't an attachment, just a regular message. Is there any way I can fix it ?

by sralls

There is no save as text file on the file menu !! I forgot to say that I can copy and paste to Notepad, not not to Wordpad!

by gigelul

Regarding answer 4: Save as exist! And if you can paste in notepad also you can then save and open with Wordpad. I think that your Wordpad instalation is bad.

by sralls

Thank You Florinel !! I can copy & paste from Notepad to Wordpad, so I am partially there,,Thank You !! I agree with you that my Wordpad Installation might be bad,,is there any way to re-install or repair it ?
You guys are the BEST!! If I can solve the Wordpad problem I'm off and running!!

by 7nt

Repeat your procedure again, copy your selection, open Wordpad and this time try SHIFT INSERT instead of paste.

clover

by sralls

Tried Shift & Insert on the Keyboard, after clicking into the body of Wordpad,,it didn't work!!

by isys

Do you have clipboard installed? The combination works in all Windows versions, but it copies to the clipboard. If it isn't installed there's no place for it to go.

by sloowwhand

I agree with answer #5. If you can copy the text and paste into Notepad and not paste into Wordpad, then your problem is with the Wordpad application. You have to have Clipboard installed in order to copy and paste, so that is not the problem. Inorder to get Wordpad to work properly you should re-install Win98 OS and that should overwrite any corrupted files.

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