Sounds like your Clipboard was empty, but glad it's now working. Thanks for
the feedback. Yankee Clipper used to have a problem with clearing the
clipboard if there were too many items in it although I've not used it in
years. It was handy but hard to find the items I wanted to paste in so I've
switched to using text file and then the function while composing a message
[Insert/Text from File).
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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Thanks.


"bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all for the help.
>
> Here's what happened. First, I made sure that the cursor was in the text
> portion. Still no paste function was available. Then I tried the CTRL-V
> approach suggested by Micheal Santovec. Still no joy. I then decided to
> do
> a DOS scanreg /restore, going back several days. Still no joy (no harm
> done, thankfully).
>
> In playing around with a blank message window, I typed a gibberish
> message,
> then hit "copy" and voila, the paste function un-greyed. Clicking "paste"
> then pasted the message in the text area. To make sure the function was
> again working properly, I did several copy/paste operations from various
> areas and they all worked.
>
> Seems like something was "stuck" in the copy/paste sequence and once that
> cleared, all was back to normal. Not a very technically satisfying
> result,
> but since it works, I'm happy.
>
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u3u7mAw6FHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> The cursor must be in the text portion of the Compose Message window for
>> paste operations to be effective.
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>>
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> "bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message
>> news:OQYp6Cv6FHA.660@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> > As of this AM, I am unable to paste anything from the clipboard or my
>> > Yankee
>> > Clipper III clipboard utility to an OE message. The "paste" function
>> > is
>> > greyed out. AFAIK, I have made no changes that would cause this.
>> >
>> > Win98se
>> > 324meg ram
>> > OE6/IE6 with all updates
>> >
>> >
>> > .
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>