[Papyrus-L] more on XP - troubleshooting clipboard/Word - experiments with NotePad

[John Rodgers]

Denis,
    Under XP I tried making a file in NotePad, saving it as a text file 
as  c:\test.txt.
Then I imported it into Word as if it were a papyrus citation.
   This works fine the first time through.
Now- try to update and save the NotePad file- you can't save it, but you 
get an error message telling you so.  Papyrus simply doesn't know about the 
error message.

If I SAVE the Word file, NotePad can go forward.  This replicates the whole 
shebang,  I think.  Word, probably through its UNDO function, is keeping 
rights to a document until it is saved.  UNDO is a pretty useful function, 
so I wouldn't want to turn it off while editing.  The simple device of 
saving your Word document after a citation paste solves the problem (right 
now at least! :))
-john

At 10:42 PM 1/19/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear John,
>
>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, John Rodgers wrote:
>
> > I've got Word97 also.  I haven't tried this under later versions.
> >    -john
> >
>You have me intrigued!   So I just conducted a test on my Win NT4
>machine with Word from Office97.   Seems to release the file just fine.
>Here's what I tried:
>a) Create a simple file in NotePad, save it and close NotePad.
>b) Open Word, create a new document and insert text from the above file.
>c) Leaving Word open, once again fire up NotePad, call up the simple text
>doc and add more text - saved and closed without problem.
>d) Insert the updated file into Word without complaint!
>
>Suggests that this may be an XP problem, don't you think?   Not that much
>can be done about it if so :-(   Maybe the demo above does not replicate
>all that is happening in a true setup?
>
>Cheers,
>Denis
>
>
> >
> > At 10:18 PM 1/19/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> > >Hello, John.
> > >
> > >On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, John Rodgers wrote:
> > >
> > > > re. problem citing to the clipboard when using Word.  If I save the 
> Word
> > > > document after an insert file, then I can update the papref.txt from
>
>
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