I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the
Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

Anyway, while messing around seeing if I could find any likely settings
(I'm doing this over WhatsApp from my iMac), I had a look in
Accessibility settings, and noticed Enable Head Pointer - 'what's that'
I thought, so turned it on.

Blimey, that's a bit of a trippy feature. Interesting, and cool, but not
sure how long I could keep that up on a 27" screen :-). I never knew
that existed.

--
Andy H

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Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote:

I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

What version of MS Office and macOS?

Can't say I've seen anything like that.

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On 24 Oct 2022 at 18:38:30 BST, "Chris" <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote:

I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the
Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

What version of MS Office and macOS?

Can't say I've seen anything like that.

I've had it once or perhaps twice.

The first one was back when you could still download the current point
release updater of OS X and re-apply it, since that's what I had to do
to fix it. Not entirely sure what the equivalent would be now, probably
an OS reinstall from the Recovery Boot.

Second time I'm pretty sure was fixed by a reboot, unlike the first.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;
persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
By Order of the Author." -- Mark Twain

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On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 13:41:07 UTC+1, Andy Hewitt wrote:

I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

Anyway, while messing around seeing if I could find any likely settings
(I'm doing this over WhatsApp from my iMac), I had a look in
Accessibility settings, and noticed Enable Head Pointer - 'what's that'
I thought, so turned it on.

Blimey, that's a bit of a trippy feature. Interesting, and cool, but not
sure how long I could keep that up on a 27" screen :-). I never knew
that existed.

--
Andy H

I've had some frustration with that using word.
I have these labels with coloured text and background colour that I wanted to change a reprint
So I did command-c then command V to a new document .
well thecolours came out differnt to the originals, orange text became green text

After a recent update of office I can now get the correct colours by usingcopy, then paste special
from the edit menu and use the 'Microsoft word document object'

what a faff.

Catalina 10.15.7
iMac 27" 3.4GHz quad core i7

Word 16.66.1 Microsoft office 365 subscription

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whisky-dave <whisky.dave@gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 13:41:07 UTC+1, Andy Hewitt wrote:

I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the
Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

Anyway, while messing around seeing if I could find any likely settings
(I'm doing this over WhatsApp from my iMac), I had a look in
Accessibility settings, and noticed Enable Head Pointer - 'what's that'
I thought, so turned it on.

Blimey, that's a bit of a trippy feature. Interesting, and cool, but not
sure how long I could keep that up on a 27" screen :-). I never knew
that existed.

--
Andy H

I've had some frustration with that using word.
I have these labels with coloured text and background colour that I
wanted to change a reprint
So I did command-c then command V to a new document .
well thecolours came out differnt to the originals, orange text became green text

After a recent update of office I can now get the correct colours by usingcopy, then paste special
from the edit menu and use the 'Microsoft word document object'

what a faff.

Catalina 10.15.7
iMac 27" 3.4GHz quad core i7

Word 16.66.1 Microsoft office 365 subscription

This is about the only thing the touch bar is good for. When you paste in
Word it comes up with the options to maintain source/dest formatting or
just paste the raw text. Really handy.

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On 24/10/2022 18:38, Chris wrote:

Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> wrote:

I was helping daughter try to get to the bottom on an issue with the
Copy/Paste function in MS Office on her MacBook (the model with the
touch strip). We had a little success, and managed to get it to start
working within Word, and then between Office apps.

Otherwise a bit stumped, restarting and resetting 'pboard' didn't fix
it, and partial functionality just returned randomly on its own.

What version of MS Office and macOS?

Can't say I've seen anything like that.

Mac OS is Monterey, no idea on Office, but I believe she's subscribing
to 365, so whatever that provides.

--
Andy H

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