Won't let me copy to WP using ctrl-v or Paste - always says "Too b
CambridgeKC
Processor always says "too big" when I try to copy even a single line of
highlighted material into it when taking notes from the Web. However, if I
copy it to Notepad (& lose useful features like clickable links), and then do
Select All, ctrl-C it doesn't complain at all. Is Microsoft unhappy that its
coming from FireFox? Anybody else got this problem?
Ken
plain text). I'm not certain it's in Works but it's worth looking.
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Ken
Error message when you drag or copy and paste text and picture objects
into Microsoft Works: "The information you copied exceeds the size limit
for pasting into the Word Processor"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=268762
Ken
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| I am thinking of moving to Open Office because the pre-installed Works
CambridgeKC
I followed that link to that earlier post you mentioned so I don't feel its
only me who's seen this bug.
What's sad is that its two years on, and still this "too big" error appears
and no way is it too big AND they haven't fixed it.
That's what makes me think it is strange that something so vital as simple
copying should
(a) get an untrue error message - the material isn't too big; and
(b) still hasn't been fixed.
When you're trying to sell Office, would you expect its free cousin (Works)
to offer good functionality for nothing?
Those workarounds that you pointed to do work, but the copy you get is
unformatted, (Paste Special only offers unformatted) so you lose the most
important part of what you're copying from the Web browser - you lose the
live clickable links.
This is a second rate Copy facility, and I was a fool to expect a first rate
copy facility in a free pre-loaded word processor from Microsoft, especially
when they want me to buy Office.
Sorry that I've wasted your time, but having a poor copy facility in the
Works Word Processor would encourage people to abandon it - just as I will,
because good full accurate copying without erroneous error messages everytime
is important.
We've both been taken in - sorry mate.
Open Office suddenly seems a good thing to download because the Microsoft
offering doesn't do what you would hope and expect it to do, without flagging
an error that is untrue.
How very disappointing - but what did I expect? I am the fool.
Thanks again Ken, but it appears there may be another reason why this false
error message appears, and full, accurate copying can't be achieved and years
later still hasn't been fixed.
Sorry to have wasted your time.
Bye.
Ken
I do not have your problem, therefore not taken in.
Ken
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CambridgeKC
this problem, when its very existence gives rise to the speculation that this
word processor is deliberately unable to receive material accurately and
easily.
Nobody at the outset would expect dysfunctionality to be an inherent
"feature" unless a bug that was flagged two years ago is still wasting Ken's
time because there may be an economic reason to make it clumsy and irritating
to use, given that it might encourage the user to move to a "pay for" product
that receives material quickly and easily when using the very same
"Edit/Copy" "Edit/Paste" from the same company.
You have been taken in, in the sense that you earnestly care to help people
who are having troubles, without considering that some of those troubles may
be still persisting not because they can't be fixed, but because there's no
will to fix them. Which means the producer is wasting your time by allowing
the fault, and the enquiries, to remain indefinately into the future, so you
have to unecessarily continue to assist them, when the simple bug could have
been fixed.
Helpful people on forums may not have even imagined that their kindness
could be abused in this way, and their time therefore wasted indefinately
into the future, by a continuing intransigence to fix a major inconvenience
in the operation of a key function - Copy/Paste.
You don't have to have the problem to be taken in - you have generously
given your time freely and kindly to assist a user whose problem would be a
simple bug fix, but hasn't been fixed in two years, and in my humble opinion,
will never be fixed. That's how you've been taken in - believing that simple
problems would be rectified to make all products maximally functional. Works
Word Processor clearly has a major dysfunction that nobody would expect to be
built-in to a word processor - the abject inability to accurately reproduce
part of a web page - how can that be in the stable of the biggest software
company of the world - surely it's indefensible that this post needs to be
written.
Would you specify that any word processor you used should only be able to
receive unformatted text using Copy/Paste - I don't think so - but that's
what's on offer here. And you only learn this by using it and being
inconvenienced and irritated.
Because you can't believe this is the intended level of functionality
offered by this particular product, you go on the forum.
And then you realise that this was reported two years ago. And then you
begin to wonder how this can be. And then you wonder if people who are
attempting to help aren't having their time wasted. And that's not right that
their kindness should be abused in this way.
If you can't see this, then I guess you genuinely haven't been taken in.
Thanks anyway - it was good of you to try and help me and to post.
Bye.
tamara butterfield
I know this a few years later! But just had same problem, followed what you said" right click - copy then go to EDIT up top & go to PASTE SPECIAL which has different format options & then it works. So just wanted to say THANKS!
>> There is a command in Word. Try Edit - Paste Special and select text (or
>>
>>
>> Word
>> do
>> its
>>> On Sunday, July 20, 2008 3:43 PM Ken wrote:
>>> See if this applies
>>>
>>> Error message when you drag or copy and paste text and picture objects
>>> into Microsoft Works: "The information you copied exceeds the size limit
>>> for pasting into the Word Processor"
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=268762
>>>
>>>
>>> Word
>>> do
>>> its
>>>> On Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:00 PM CambridgeK wrote:
>>>> Thanks Ken for both your posts.
>>>>
>>>> I followed that link to that earlier post you mentioned so I don't feel its
>>>> only me who's seen this bug.
>>>>
>>>> What's sad is that its two years on, and still this "too big" error appears
>>>> and no way is it too big AND they haven't fixed it.
>>>>
>>>> That's what makes me think it is strange that something so vital as simple
>>>> copying should
>>>> (a) get an untrue error message - the material isn't too big; and
>>>> (b) still hasn't been fixed.
>>>>
>>>> When you're trying to sell Office, would you expect its free cousin (Works)
>>>> to offer good functionality for nothing?
>>>>
>>>> Those workarounds that you pointed to do work, but the copy you get is
>>>> unformatted, (Paste Special only offers unformatted) so you lose the most
>>>> important part of what you're copying from the Web browser - you lose the
>>>> live clickable links.
>>>>
>>>> This is a second rate Copy facility, and I was a fool to expect a first rate
>>>> copy facility in a free pre-loaded word processor from Microsoft, especially
>>>> when they want me to buy Office.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry that I've wasted your time, but having a poor copy facility in the
>>>> Works Word Processor would encourage people to abandon it - just as I will,
>>>> because good full accurate copying without erroneous error messages everytime
>>>> is important.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> offering doesn't do what you would hope and expect it to do, without flagging
>>>> an error that is untrue.
>>>>
>>>> How very disappointing - but what did I expect? I am the fool.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again Ken, but it appears there may be another reason why this false
>>>> error message appears, and full, accurate copying can't be achieved and years
>>>> later still hasn't been fixed.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to have wasted your time.
>>>>
>>>> Bye.
>>>>> Re: We've both been taken in - sorry mate.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not have your problem, therefore not taken in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> appears
>>>>> (Works)
>>>>> rate
>>>>> especially
>>>>> will,
>>>>> everytime
>>>>> flagging
>>>>> false
>>>>> years