Gil, I don't have Hummingbird, but I do use Rumba and it has a similar 'feature' perhaps Hummingbird has something like this too.
Under Options->Edit->Clipboard format, there are several checkboxes for selecting the format of the data that gets cut/pasted such as text, BIFF, Bitmap, Picture etc. I have all of them unchecked except text. Dana ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html