Microsoft Office won't accept copy and paste from emails or web?

for a long time I have use Microsoft Office Professional w/o problems. Now if I copy (highlight) anything from my yahoo e mail or the web and then open up Microsoft Word and want to paste..i get an hour glass and eventually with all my clicking to try to get this hour glass to paste what I copied..i get 'program not responding'





Now I can get it pasted by doing this 'new' process (which I don't want to have to do every time) i copy text in my email or from the web. Then I open up microsoft word. Click on edit, then paste special. Paste as text ( i have to click on unformatted text). I have to do this now each time i want to get something into Microsoft word. (I can type in the Microsoft word a new document..) point is..i must have done something to change a setting or whatever??? i dont' want to have to go thru this process..helppppppp get me back to where I simply clicked on copy in my e mail/web page..opened up Microsoft word..and clicked on paste and it appeared.

Microsoft Office won't accept copy and paste from emails or web?
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I've been unable to find the answer so far, but have exactly the same problem. I can copy and paste anything else to Word, but not so much as one letter from my Yahoo email. I can, however, copy and paste it if I open my email in Firefox rather than I.E., which I normally use. So, I think it must be a Yahoo problem, but I don't know.
Reply:Hmmm, that's interesting. I do use Windows Classic view,


but I've been doing so for a long time too! Anyway, thanks


for the tip. Report It

Reply:Seems somehow WORD got corrupted.... rather than breaking your head... reinstall "Microsoft Office Professional ".
Reply:Since the web pages are now more advance and sophisticated, copying from a web page is no more like copying a text.(in some cases). so when you try to copy and then paste you will find that you are going to wait so much time until the word stops responding which is due to analyzing the data,


to prevent this, try copying some lines each time and try not to select by mistake some tables and columns and links which you don't want.


thanks.