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Old January 7th, 2006, 12:39 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the fact that I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux


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Old January 7th, 2006, 05:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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I don't know of any way except one that requires more keystrokes/clicks:
select a single character and Copy to the Clipboard before shutting down.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message ...
Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the fact that

I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux



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Old January 10th, 2006, 11:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

Thanks Suzanne.

Where would I submit a simple suggestion to MS to improve their products,
for example this issue? (Somewhere that it will actually get read, not just
an autoresponder mailbox.)

Phideaux



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I don't know of any way except one that requires more keystrokes/clicks:
select a single character and Copy to the Clipboard before shutting down.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message ...
Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the fact

that
I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux





  #4  
Old January 10th, 2006, 11:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

You can post your suggestion as a "Suggestion to Microsoft" through the Web
interface. If it gets enough votes, someone at MS will look at it. But
honestly, I think most people are not sorry to be reminded that the
Clipboard may be cleared when they quit Word (if they've opened Word to
copy--or, worse still, cut--something and plan to paste it after quitting
Word).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message ...
Thanks Suzanne.

Where would I submit a simple suggestion to MS to improve their products,
for example this issue? (Somewhere that it will actually get read, not

just
an autoresponder mailbox.)

Phideaux



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I don't know of any way except one that requires more keystrokes/clicks:
select a single character and Copy to the Clipboard before shutting

down.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message ...
Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the fact

that
I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a

colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux






  #5  
Old January 11th, 2006, 12:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word care?

Thanks for listening.

Phideaux


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You can post your suggestion as a "Suggestion to Microsoft" through the

Web
interface. If it gets enough votes, someone at MS will look at it. But
honestly, I think most people are not sorry to be reminded that the
Clipboard may be cleared when they quit Word (if they've opened Word to
copy--or, worse still, cut--something and plan to paste it after quitting
Word).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message

...
Thanks Suzanne.

Where would I submit a simple suggestion to MS to improve their

products,
for example this issue? (Somewhere that it will actually get read, not

just
an autoresponder mailbox.)

Phideaux



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I don't know of any way except one that requires more

keystrokes/clicks:
select a single character and Copy to the Clipboard before shutting

down.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message

...
Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the

fact
that
I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a

colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux








  #6  
Old January 11th, 2006, 01:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

Publisher has the same warning (and in fact I've only ever encountered it in
Publisher, not Word). I'm not sure that Word *does* clear the Clipboard, but
other apps may. For example, the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word
clears the Clipboard whenever you *start* Word, much to the consternation of
users who have copied something with the intention of pasting it into a Word
document.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message ...
I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word care?

Thanks for listening.

Phideaux


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
You can post your suggestion as a "Suggestion to Microsoft" through the

Web
interface. If it gets enough votes, someone at MS will look at it. But
honestly, I think most people are not sorry to be reminded that the
Clipboard may be cleared when they quit Word (if they've opened Word to
copy--or, worse still, cut--something and plan to paste it after

quitting
Word).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message

...
Thanks Suzanne.

Where would I submit a simple suggestion to MS to improve their

products,
for example this issue? (Somewhere that it will actually get read,

not
just
an autoresponder mailbox.)

Phideaux



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I don't know of any way except one that requires more

keystrokes/clicks:
select a single character and Copy to the Clipboard before shutting

down.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

phideaux wrote in message

...
Hi All,

How do I get Word (2000 and 2003) to stop prompting me about the

fact
that
I
have left a "large" amount of text in the Clipboard? This is a

colossal
waste of a click every time I exit. :-)

Thanks,

Phideaux









  #7  
Old January 22nd, 2006, 12:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:55 -0700, phideaux wrote:

I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word care?


First, you need to know that when you use "copy to the clipboard" on a
large piece of stuff, the stuff does not actually get copied anywhere.
Instead, a pointer to the stuff gets put in the clipboard. Later, when
you decide to paste it, the stuff actually gets moved.

Windows does this to save a lot of wasted copying. For example, if you
select a large chunk of Word document, there is no point in copying it
to some temporary place. That just wastes time. Furthermore, Windows
doesn't really know exactly what to copy until you try to paste it.
After all, you might paste it as a Word DOC, or as plain text, or an
Excel table, or a picture, or any number of other formats. By just
saving a pointer, the clipboard processor can see what you want to
paste and ask the source application for only what it needs.

Given all of this, what happens if you "copy to the clipboard" some
large chunk of Word stuff and then close Word? If you want to be able
to paste it later, Windows needs to really copy all that stuff, in
some number of forms, to a temporary file somewhere so that it will
have something to paste. Then later this large temporary file may be
left lying around on your disk.

So what Word is really asking is "Do you want some big TMP file
cluttering up your disk so you can paste this stuff later, or should I
just dump it?"

At least Word is nice enough to ask, unlike some other applications.

Bob S
  #8  
Old January 22nd, 2006, 01:03 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

Nice explanation. Thanks, Bob!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Bob S" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:55 -0700, phideaux wrote:

I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa

bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word

care?

First, you need to know that when you use "copy to the clipboard" on a
large piece of stuff, the stuff does not actually get copied anywhere.
Instead, a pointer to the stuff gets put in the clipboard. Later, when
you decide to paste it, the stuff actually gets moved.

Windows does this to save a lot of wasted copying. For example, if you
select a large chunk of Word document, there is no point in copying it
to some temporary place. That just wastes time. Furthermore, Windows
doesn't really know exactly what to copy until you try to paste it.
After all, you might paste it as a Word DOC, or as plain text, or an
Excel table, or a picture, or any number of other formats. By just
saving a pointer, the clipboard processor can see what you want to
paste and ask the source application for only what it needs.

Given all of this, what happens if you "copy to the clipboard" some
large chunk of Word stuff and then close Word? If you want to be able
to paste it later, Windows needs to really copy all that stuff, in
some number of forms, to a temporary file somewhere so that it will
have something to paste. Then later this large temporary file may be
left lying around on your disk.

So what Word is really asking is "Do you want some big TMP file
cluttering up your disk so you can paste this stuff later, or should I
just dump it?"

At least Word is nice enough to ask, unlike some other applications.

Bob S


  #9  
Old January 22nd, 2006, 09:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

Some programs (Access for one) actually tell you, when closing the item from
which the data was copied, that you placed a large amount of data on the
clipboard and give you the option of deleting it or retaining it for use in
another application.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Nice explanation. Thanks, Bob!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Bob S" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:55 -0700, phideaux wrote:

I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa

bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word

care?

First, you need to know that when you use "copy to the clipboard" on a
large piece of stuff, the stuff does not actually get copied anywhere.
Instead, a pointer to the stuff gets put in the clipboard. Later, when
you decide to paste it, the stuff actually gets moved.

Windows does this to save a lot of wasted copying. For example, if you
select a large chunk of Word document, there is no point in copying it
to some temporary place. That just wastes time. Furthermore, Windows
doesn't really know exactly what to copy until you try to paste it.
After all, you might paste it as a Word DOC, or as plain text, or an
Excel table, or a picture, or any number of other formats. By just
saving a pointer, the clipboard processor can see what you want to
paste and ask the source application for only what it needs.

Given all of this, what happens if you "copy to the clipboard" some
large chunk of Word stuff and then close Word? If you want to be able
to paste it later, Windows needs to really copy all that stuff, in
some number of forms, to a temporary file somewhere so that it will
have something to paste. Then later this large temporary file may be
left lying around on your disk.

So what Word is really asking is "Do you want some big TMP file
cluttering up your disk so you can paste this stuff later, or should I
just dump it?"

At least Word is nice enough to ask, unlike some other applications.

Bob S




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Old January 22nd, 2006, 04:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.pagelayout
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Default Exiting Word

Well, actually, so does Word; that's what started this thread.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Some programs (Access for one) actually tell you, when closing the item

from
which the data was copied, that you placed a large amount of data on the
clipboard and give you the option of deleting it or retaining it for use

in
another application.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Nice explanation. Thanks, Bob!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Bob S" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:53:55 -0700, phideaux wrote:

I guess my question is why does Word have to clear the Clipboard when

it
exits? What's the harm in leaving whatever is in there in there? Howa

bout
an option to just turn off the "warning.?"

Almost all the other heavy duty apps I use (FP, FrameMaker, PageMaker,
Dreamweaver, etc etc), they just ignore the Clipboard. Why does Word

care?

First, you need to know that when you use "copy to the clipboard" on a
large piece of stuff, the stuff does not actually get copied anywhere.
Instead, a pointer to the stuff gets put in the clipboard. Later, when
you decide to paste it, the stuff actually gets moved.

Windows does this to save a lot of wasted copying. For example, if you
select a large chunk of Word document, there is no point in copying it
to some temporary place. That just wastes time. Furthermore, Windows
doesn't really know exactly what to copy until you try to paste it.
After all, you might paste it as a Word DOC, or as plain text, or an
Excel table, or a picture, or any number of other formats. By just
saving a pointer, the clipboard processor can see what you want to
paste and ask the source application for only what it needs.

Given all of this, what happens if you "copy to the clipboard" some
large chunk of Word stuff and then close Word? If you want to be able
to paste it later, Windows needs to really copy all that stuff, in
some number of forms, to a temporary file somewhere so that it will
have something to paste. Then later this large temporary file may be
left lying around on your disk.

So what Word is really asking is "Do you want some big TMP file
cluttering up your disk so you can paste this stuff later, or should I
just dump it?"

At least Word is nice enough to ask, unlike some other applications.

Bob S





 




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