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

[kovacs at ovrisc.mdche.u-szeged.hu]

Hi Papyrus users,

You may want to have a look at Keytext at
http://www.mjmsoft.com/keytext.htm

Good luck!

Best wishes,

Lajos

Dr. Lajos KOVACS
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, John Rodgers wrote:

> 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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