copy paste - Microsoft word 2003 crashes when pasting info

Often I want to copy info from a web page into a text file for various reasons.

I select the text on the web page, copy and then try to paste it into Word.

I often find that word just hangs and I have to hard close it.

Is there a solution to this?

EDIT: I switched to notepad++ for this particular problem. It works...

Can you give more details? What exactly are you copy/pasting? Maybe only certain elements cause the crash? Or does it crash every single time?

Also, you may want to consider using something lighter to copy/paste web site text, such as Notepad or Notepad++.

Pasting text from a text file should be no problem. Pasting text from a Web page can cause problems, depending on the content of the web page.

I would recommend using a paste unformatted if you absolutely must use Word. It sounds like a simple text editor is all you really need though.

We can probably give you a better answer if you offer a link to example Web content that causes this issue.