Copying and Pasting in Publisher 2007

[Emerald53]

I've recently upgraded MS Office. I do a newsletter each month and often
paste from an old newsletter into a new one. It used to work fine but for
some reason now when i hit paste, it pastes in the most recent thing i've
deleted from the new newsletter instead of what i want to paste in.

Can someone help? TIA!

 

[John Inzer]

I've recently upgraded MS Office. I do a newsletter each month and
often paste from an old newsletter into a new one. It used to work
fine but for some reason now when i hit paste, it pastes in the most
recent thing i've deleted from the new newsletter instead of what i
want to paste in.

Can someone help? TIA!

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Just wondering...what steps did you
use to delete the "most recent thing"?

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[Emerald53]

Just right click and delete or select and delete.

 

[John Inzer]

Just right click and delete or select and delete.

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Okay, first you...right click / Delete...an object?

And then you Copy a different object to your clipboard and
when you paste you get a copy of the object you deleted?

Are you positive that you did not remove the original object
by using the steps...Right Click / Cut?

BTW...Cut...is the same as...Move. It removes the object from
the original location and places it on the clipboard ready for
pasting into another document.

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[Emerald53]

Positive. I deleted an article that i no longer needed, went to an old
newsletter and copied an ad that i needed to put into the current newsletter.
When i clicked "paste" in the current newsletter, it pasted the article that
i had deleted. I tried the operation several times with the same results. The
only way i was able to get the ad into the current newsletter was by first
saving it as a .png file, opening it with Picture Manager and copying and
pasting it from there. A pain, i'm sure you'll agree.

I've been doing the same thing with this newsletter for years now. It's only
since the upgrade from Office 2003 to Office 2007 that this has been
happening.

 

[John Inzer]

Positive. I deleted an article that i no longer needed, went to an
old newsletter and copied an ad that i needed to put into the current
newsletter. When i clicked "paste" in the current newsletter, it
pasted the article that i had deleted. I tried the operation several
times with the same results. The only way i was able to get the ad
into the current newsletter was by first saving it as a .png file,
opening it with Picture Manager and copying and pasting it from
there. A pain, i'm sure you'll agree.

I've been doing the same thing with this newsletter for years now.
It's only since the upgrade from Office 2003 to Office 2007 that this
has been happening.

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Sorry, but I have no idea how a deleted
item found it's way onto the clipboard.

Maybe someone else will offer a solution.

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[Emerald53]

John, even if the deleted item was on the clipboard, i copied the ad AFTER
deleting the item. Shouldn't the copied ad take precedence over the deleted
item? That's the way it seems to have worked before.

 

[John Inzer]

John, even if the deleted item was on the clipboard, i copied the ad
AFTER deleting the item. Shouldn't the copied ad take precedence over
the deleted item? That's the way it seems to have worked before.

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Yes, on the Windows Clipboard...the last
item copied is the one on the clipboard.

FWIW... Publisher has the Office Clipboard
which is capable of copying multiple objects
(up to 24).

To activate the Office Clipboard...go to...Edit /
Office Clipboard...and it will open in your left
pane. Maybe it was somehow involved in the
issue you experienced.

So, if the Office Clipboard was in use...and
if the deletion was accomplished by clicking
Cut...that object would have been on the Office
Clipboard along with the object you copied.

Clear-as-mud now huh?

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[Emerald53]

It really helped to be able to see the clipboard contents - thanks, John!
Maybe if i can see what's there, i'll be able to select what gets copied.

I'm going to have to find a tutorial or something on Office 2007!

Thanks again, John.

 

[John Inzer]

It really helped to be able to see the clipboard contents - thanks,
John! Maybe if i can see what's there, i'll be able to select what
gets copied.

I'm going to have to find a tutorial or something on Office 2007!

Thanks again, John.

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You're welcome.

Maybe the tutorials at the following
site will be useful:

Help for Publisher 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2alybp

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John Inzer
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[Emerald53]

Bookmarked for further inspection. Thanks again, John!

 

[Jan VanNieuwkerk]

I found the copy and paste procedure between Publisher 2007 and Word 2007 to work identical as in previous editions;

is it possible that instead of deleting a portion of the older document that it was cut instead? in which case it ends up on the clipboard and is then injected by paste in the new document;

this happened to me twice in other clipboard operations. Good Luck
Regards, Jan

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[Emerald53]

Yes, i may have cut instead of deleted, but as i said to John, if i cut the
first piece out, then went and copied what i wanted there, the thing that was
copied should have pasted before the thing that was cut.

It really helped to be able to access the clipboard while working on the
newsletter. That didn't solve the cutting and pasting issue exactly, but i
was able to choose what to paste.