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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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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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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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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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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