Re: Word 2004 clears clipboard from Firefox on launch

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In article <1186549011.636923.167270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
NotarySojac <jimmueller@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This is reproducible on both our MacBook Pros.
Open a web page in Firefox. Select some text - sentence, paragraph or
all (does not matter).
Go to the Finder and select Show Clipboard to reassure oneself that
there is something on the clipboard.
Launch Word 2004.
Click in the new document and try to select Paste from the Edit menu.
We cannot - it is greyed out. Apple-V does nothing either.
Go back to the Finder and Show Clipboard. It is now empty.
Go back to Firefox and copy the same thing again.
Switch back to Word and now you can paste it.

Your steps work fine for me - even with all my startup macros (none of
which affect the clipboard), I can paste fine.

In addition to Elliott's suggestion re: the Normal template, are you
loading any other add-ins/global templates (via Tools/Templates and
Addins...) or have other files in your startup folder? If so, try
disabling/moving them.

The only other thing I can think of (and I may be talking out of the
wrong orifice here) is that it's a problem with starting up Rosetta. To
check this, try starting Excel, or another PPC app (which would be
better, since it would eliminate the common Office components), then
running your test.
.

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