You both are suffering from the same root issue. Word sends data to the clipboard as HTML data, and this is causing some weirdness when running through QS's clipboard history. Try opening Word's preferences, going into the Edit pane, and adjusting the settings for the "smart copy and paste" feature.
On Dec 5, 2:51 am, NH <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having an issue that's sort of related to your question: when I > copy text from a word document it is added tot my clipboard as "HTML > Data". I can't see the actual text that I copied, just the "HTML > Data". I have absolutely no idea why this happens, but I thought it > might be caused by something similar to what's causing your problem. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated... > > On Dec 3, 5:17 am, Melanie Avids <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I posted about this before, but no one was able to help me & I stopped > > trying. Trying again... > > > I use the clipboard function a lot. > > > Often (but not nearly always), when pasting text (originally copied > > from a word document, being copied into another word document) other > > than the top level (ie those other than the most recent), the pasted > > text appears as a hyperlink. > > > Blue, underlined. So I have to edit to remove the hyperlink. This is > > so annoying. It wasn't a link before. I'm not talking about web links. > > > The link points to the original file (I guess) - the name and location > > of the document I am copying from. > > > When I mouseover the link it gives me the location of the original > > file plus a lot of garbley numbers that I'm guessing are an address. > > > When I edit to remove the text I find this: > > * The LINK TO field says "Intermediate%20ESL%20- > > %209.doc#OLE_LINK28%091,252,253,0,,(" > > * The ANCHOR field says "OLE_LINK28 1,252,253,0,,(" > > > Clicking on the link goes nowhere. > > > Is anyone else having this problem? Has anyone else had this problem > > and solved it? Does anyone have any ideas of how to fix it or why it's > > happening? > > > Thank you.
