keyboard shortcuts - Copy/Paste in Windows 7 does not keep layout anymore
2013-11
Abel
Since a short while, when I select something in, say, Firefox, Chrome or my mail client, hit Ctrl+C (or use right-mouse-button and select copy), hit Ctrl+V in another application that supports copying with layout (like MS Word), the layout is not copied.
At first I thought no complex content could be copied at all anymore, but programs still seem to manage to get complex content on the clipboard (i.e., hitting Alt+PrtScr still works).
But, trying copy and paste inside the same program, for instance MS Word, it doesn't remember the layout, it just pastes as plain text always. In MS Excel, it's even weirder, normally you see a dashed bar around your copied content, but this bar only flashes momentarily. The "paste options" only show the "paste as text" option, the others aren't there.
I tried restarting and I am up to date with the latest fixes of Windows Update.
Any other ideas I could try?
Abel
Using different keywords when searching, I finally landed on this page in Microsoft Office 2010 Forums, which explained the problem from an MS Word perspective. It appears that Skype Click To Call, which apparently automatically installs itself with Skype, causes this problem.
I removed it and suddenly everything works as expected again, I can do normal Ctrl-C/V in every program and the layout of the complex content remains as it should. MS Excel is also acting normally again.
Aman
I am using Windows XP. When I use Firefox browser, select all and copy and then paste it into some application such as OneNote, it only pastes the text (preserves text formatting) but not the images. I have another PC in which it copies both images and text. Both have same version of FF and mostly everything is the same. I think there is some problem with clipboard. Can you suggest what could be the cause?
Aman
This is what solved the problem for me. Set signed.applets.codebase_principal_support to true via about:config. This is not recommended as you cannot limit which sites have these extra privileges.
Refer http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_clipboard for specifics and how to do it in more secure fashion.
Mr-Right
most likely you are using normal text editor (Notepad, Wordpad etc.) where you paste from clipboard, better use rich text editor like MS-Word (From MS-office suite).
I think it will solve your problem !!