Vista - Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) not working

Having problems with Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) in Windows Live Mail
-- they don't work. The only bypass I know of is to use F3 to look at headers
can copy from there. In Outlook Express this was a problem if any search
was invoked whether it was in OE (Ctrl+Shift+F) or a Windows search.
I'm not in either in WLM and I have the problem.

Using Windows Vista Home Basic.

--
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP -- Excel
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm

Are you saying that they don't work anywhere in Windows Live Mail, or
that they aren't working in some specific situations?

They work fine for me. I use them all the time.

I recall under OE, in some cases, copying from a message properties
didn't work with Ctrl+C. Sometimes it would work and sometimes it
wouldn't and I never did nail down any differences on that. But when
that happens, a workaround is to right click the highlighted text and
then select Copy.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"David McRitchie" <dmcritchie_xlmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Michael,
Thanks Right click selected text and use "Copy" from the main context menu
works, and will be what I use as a bypass.

Thought I had tried that, seems I saw it and didn't use it., or only used it once.
Seems after doing that , that Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are working again, perhaps
that was why it was hard to remember, after all Copy from Edit menu used to
work, and that too works again. So I may only have to do that once each time
it actually gets stuck and of course remember.



"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uu0M5eayIHA.4912@xxxxxx

I've had the same issue. The short cut keys just stop working in WLM. They
continue to work in other apps. I am using XPSP2

"David McRitchie" <dmcritchie_xlmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"osu9400" ...I am using Robert Aldwinckle's suggestion to right click on the selection
and use the context menu "Copy" which is working for anything in the
message body, or Ctrl+F3 then Ctrl+C to pick up from headers. I spoke
prematurely when I said using "Copy" from the context (right-click) menu
also seemed to make Ctrl+C work again in WLM -- that effect didn't last long.

If you missed Robert's reply, possibly you don't have your WLM set up to
view threaded conversations. View, Current View, [x] View by Conversation

I have had similar problem if I send message without a subject, WLMail asks
if I want to send, I respond no, I put cursor in subject, I type but
keystrokes fall into bitbucket.

So I enter subject into body of mail/message, then cut using ctl/X, then I
put cursor into subject and type ctl/V - nothing, but right click Paste or
use the Paste button on my Office keyboard and hey voila, the subject I
typed into message body is there in the subject.
--
TUT

WLMail (was WLM Deskop),
Windows Live Hotmail (WLH) (was Windows Live Mail)
Windows Live Messenger (WLM) (not to be confused with Windows Messenger
(vanilla)
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"David McRitchie" <dmcritchie_xlmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can save to Drafts, then open and add the subject.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Urbane.Tiger" <viking.warrior@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, but that is as disruptive as Forwarding (Ctrl+F), or looking in the
headers (Ctrl+F3), or looking at HTML (Ctrl+F2) from an email/newspost.

Make selection in original as you would for Ctrl+C, then right-click and use
"Copy" from the context menu as was described by Michael Santovec
at the beginning of this thread. Thanks again to Michael works like a charm.


"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:erWzCCVzIHA.6096@xxxxxx