Unbelievable

[Tom C]

That Publisher 2007 is unable to copy and paste from email or Word to a
Publisher document is unbelievable. I receive the great majority of articles
for a 16-20 page newsletter via email, and to have to go through the
manipulations outlined by Mary Sauer in another forum message is ridiculous.
Had I known this to be necessary I would not have upgraded (supposedly) from
Publisher 2000 to 2007. Publisher 2000 did this copy-paste routine with
ease. 2007's needed manipulations will add hours per month to editing my
newsletter. A fix is mandatory.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Too bad we have no idea what you're talking about because you haven't quoted
the original problem or response. Why can't you copy/paste? I copy paste
from Word & email to Pub 2007 all the time...of course with email you may
have to strip the html out but you'd have to do that with any.

 

[John Inzer]

That Publisher 2007 is unable to copy and paste from email or Word to
a Publisher document is unbelievable. I receive the great majority of
articles for a 16-20 page newsletter via email, and to have to go
through the manipulations outlined by Mary Sauer in another forum
message is ridiculous. Had I known this to be necessary I would not
have upgraded (supposedly) from Publisher 2000 to 2007. Publisher
2000 did this copy-paste routine with ease. 2007's needed
manipulations will add hours per month to editing my newsletter. A
fix is mandatory.

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If your upgrade was recent...you can request a refund from Microsoft.

Have a look at the following site:

Microsoft North American Retail Product 45-Day Refund Policy
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.asp

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Tom C]

Too bad we have no idea what you're talking about because you haven't quoted
the original problem or response. Why can't you copy/paste? I copy paste
from Word & email to Pub 2007 all the time...of course with email you may
have to strip the html out but you'd have to do that with any.

The problem, Rob, is what I stated. You can't copy and paste into a Publisher 2007 text box. I referred readers to a response to this problem by Mary Sauer, which appeared a few messages down from my post in the list of forum messages. Please tell me how you "copy and past from Word & email all the time." I would much appreciate this information. (Seriously.) Thank you!!!

 

[Tom C]

 

[John Inzer]

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Are you running Win XP or Vista?

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Tom C]

Too bad we have no idea what you're talking about because you haven't quoted
the original problem or response. Why can't you copy/paste? I copy paste
from Word & email to Pub 2007 all the time...of course with email you may
have to strip the html out but you'd have to do that with any.
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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

Please let me restate my reply to you, Rob. I'll explain more fully. Upon
using Pub 2007 for the first time, I found that when I copied an email and
pasted it into Word, as I had been doing with Pub 2000, and then copied again
and attempted to paste it into a text box, what happened was that another
empty text box popped up. I went to this forum for help, and found a message
from another user expressing the same problem. Frankly, I found this
regression in an update rather odd.

In a reply to the first writer, Mary Sauer gave instructions on how to move
such copy from Word into a text box. It involved Saving As in 97-2000 Word,
then right clicking on the tex box, and clicking on Change Text. This "work
around" takes time, and when all the material I receive for a news letter I
edit is via email, it takes time. That's when I wrote the "Unbelievable"
message.

I can take text other than from an email in Word, and copy and paste to a
text box. That's why it is so strange that the email won't copy and paste.
Even stranger is, that after reading your reply, I tried again to copy and
paste an email from Word into the text box, and it worked!! Once. I could not
repeat it. I kept getting a second empty text box when clicking on paste. So,
what is going on? What am I doing wrong? Why do others (at least one other)
experience the same problem? We need help. Thank you. Tom C

 

[Mary Sauer]

The problem as I see it, is you do not have your cursor in the text box when you
invoke paste. Publisher will create a new text box if your cursor is not in the
text box. This is the way it has always been, in every version of Publisher.
The technique I posted was taking the text from Word; if your text box is
active, the text will paste.

 

[Tom C]

The problem as I see it, is you do not have your cursor in the text box when you
invoke paste. Publisher will create a new text box if your cursor is not in the
text box. This is the way it has always been, in every version of Publisher.
The technique I posted was taking the text from Word; if your text box is
active, the text will paste.

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/


Mary, that is not the problem. Here is what I do, as I did for years in Pub 2000: First, I create a text box in the newsletter. Then I highlight and click Copy on the text in Word. Then I go back to the newsletter where the cursor is blinking in the text box. I click Paste, and a new, empty text box, with blinking cursor, is created. I've also tried going first to Word, where I highlight the text, and click Copy; then to the newsletter page where I click Paste. An empty text box with blinking cursor is created.

 

[Mary Sauer]

I have tried to duplicate your issue. I cannot. Have you opened the Office
Clipboard in both the Publisher and Word applications? It may be helpful. You
can collect 24 copied items.

 

[Meebers]

FWIW...I just did a test on my Xp machine with Office 2007. Opened a new
template on Pub 07, selected a text box, was able to paste text from your
email, and a test document from Word07 without issue.

 

[Tom C]

FWIW...I just did a test on my Xp machine with Office 2007. Opened a new
template on Pub 07, selected a text box, was able to paste text from your
email, and a test document from Word07 without issue.

Thank you for your comment. Could this be the trouble -- I have Word 2000

 

[Meebers]

My guess would be NOT since you said you could not paste from email also??
If you think W2000 is the problem, try a sample copy/paste from notepad.

 

[Tom C]

FWIW...I just did a test on my Xp machine with Office 2007. Opened a new
template on Pub 07, selected a text box, was able to paste text from your
email, and a test document from Word07 without issue.

I am using Word 2000. Could that be causing the problem?

 

[Tom C]

I am using Word 2000. Could that be causing the problem?

 

[Tom C]

UPDATE
I now have opened another newsletter, which is 74,000+KB in size, and Copy
and Paste from Word worked. So size of the file is not the problem. What on
earth could it be?

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Publisher 2007:

from an HTML source (web or html email);
Copy to clipboard
Paste into Publisher - this will create it's own textbox (not paste into an
existing one)

or
Copy to clipboard
Open Notepad
Paste into Notepad
Copy from Notepad
Paste into an existing textbox in Publisher document.




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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression Web