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


..

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
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> 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
>
>
> .
>
>

Start by opening the Windows Clipboard Viewer accessory. Does it show
text in the clipboard? If it shows an image or nothing, then OE will be
unable to do a paste.

Also, have you clicked where you intend to paste, such as in the message
body?

Also try Ctrl-V (hold down the Ctrl key while pressing the V key) to do
the paste. Does that work?

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"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
>
>
> .
>
>

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
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
>

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
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message
news:%23QJnFVx6FHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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
>> >
>> >
>> > .
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>

Jim,

Just noted the following on Yankee Clipper's website:

"Saves past 200 text and RTF, 20 BMP and Metafile, and 200 URL clipboard
entries."

I was at or over the limit as I had entries clear back to Nov 2004. That
probably caused my problem.

BTW, I have been very happy with YCIII - I especially like the "shoot"
function. Also am most happy with another little freebie - Gadwin
PrintScreen which is just ducky for pulling any part, or all of a current
screen -- including jpg/bitmaps -- to YCIII.

Thanks again.


"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uWy%23CZy6FHA.2384@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message
> news:%23QJnFVx6FHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > 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
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > .
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>

Thanks for that info. I had forgotten about the limit on Yankee Clipper.
And for capturing screen graphics, I've been using SnagIt for several years
and like it although it is not free. Thanks again.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6



"bobster" <fauxie@bogus.net> wrote in message
news:OERVX006FHA.3232@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Jim,
>
> Just noted the following on Yankee Clipper's website:
>
> "Saves past 200 text and RTF, 20 BMP and Metafile, and 200 URL clipboard
> entries."
>
> I was at or over the limit as I had entries clear back to Nov 2004. That
> probably caused my problem.
>
> BTW, I have been very happy with YCIII - I especially like the "shoot"
> function. Also am most happy with another little freebie - Gadwin
> PrintScreen which is just ducky for pulling any part, or all of a current
> screen -- including jpg/bitmaps -- to YCIII.
>
> Thanks again.