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

[John Rodgers]

Denis- I use NT at work and have no trouble- but there I use the Thissen 
Papref  program which means I can just use the normal ^V paste function 
instead of file insert.
    I don't see it on the web anymore- but I'd be happy to send it to you 
if you want.  You just install it in res. memory before running Papyrus, 
and have Pap write to c:\papref.txt.   PapRef handles the rest- 
automatically picks things up from the text file and installs them in the 
NT clipboard.

-john


At 11:30 PM 1/19/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>Hello again, John!
>
>On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, John Rodgers wrote:
>
> > Denis,
> >     Under XP I tried making a file in NotePad, saving it as a text file
> > as  c:\test.txt.
> >
>Me too.
>
> > Then I imported it into Word as if it were a papyrus citation.
> >    This works fine the first time through.
> >
>Assume you are using Word's Insert, File... process to do the insert,
>correct?   This works for me and I can even have NotePad open all the
>while if I wish!
>
> > 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.
>
> >
>Here is where we diverge... my Win NT4 allows me to do any amount of
>editing / appending / whatever to the NotePad document, to the extent of
>having NotePad and Word open simultaneously and without having to do any
>intermediate saves in Word.
>
> >
> > If I SAVE the Word file, NotePad can go forward.
> >
>As above, I do not need to save the Word document.
>
> >  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.
> >
>Well, oddly enough I continue to be offered the undo functionality so I
>guess our Words have the same settings in that regard.
>
>Sorry to flog a dead equine, especially as you have a solution!   Just
>that this may help tweak someone's ideas as to where to look in XP if this
>is in fact an XP-thing.   I don't have any XP boxes to try it out.
>
>Anyway, glad you got it licked.
>Cheers,
>Denis
>
>   The
>simple device of
> > saving your Word document after a citation paste solves the problem (right
> > now at least! :))
>
>
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