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Hello, somehow I have managed to disable the shortcuts for cutting and pasting. I can only do it manually through the menu bar. I cannot Ctrl C or Ctrl V anymore - nothing happens! What have I done? Please help.
thanks
Nicole
(am using Word 2003)
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Annoying problem if you rely 100% on keyboard shortcuts! I had the same problem and the fix is very easy. You will need to uninstall your keyboard driver and restart your computer and your CTRL keys will function once again. To do this:
1) Click Start
2) Control Panel
3) Printers and Other Hardware
4) Keyboard
5) In the Keyboard Properties window, click Hardware
6) Click Properties
7) Click Driver
8) Click Uninstall, click OK
9) Restart your Computer
Hello nicbar35,
Thank you for your reply back!
Is this only happening in Microsoft Word or does this also occur in other programs like 'Notepad"? I went to Microsoft Word support and am showing commands listed below. Again, if only happening within Word, I would suggest going to site listed.
Keyboard shortcuts for Word and support:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051866641033.aspx?pid=CH060831551033
Character and paragraph formatting
| To do this | Press |
|---|---|
| Copy formatting from text. | CTRL+SHIFT+C |
| Apply copied formatting to text. | CTRL+SHIFT+V |
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Hello, somehow I have managed to disable the shortcuts for cutting and pasting. I can only do it manually through the menu bar. I cannot Ctrl C or Ctrl V anymore - nothing happens! What have I done? Please help.
thanks
Nicole
(am using Word 2003)
I had the same problem after I messed with some clipboard settings in Word. Try opening Word and click on the down-right pull-down arrow in the Clipboard section of the Home tab. This will open up a clipboard pane to the left of the document area. At the bottom of this pane, click on the Options Button. I clicked to set a check mark on all the options. And now Ctrl-C and Ctrl-v work again. Don't know which one is the "magic bullet" yet, but some time and trial and error can sort it out. Good Luck.
Hello Michela,
In order to collage IMAGES: that is cut and paste various images and then copy them all back, you need to cut and paste one by one in POWER POINT, then in POWER POINT GROUP THEM AS ONE, then save them as JPG. Then you will have ONE IMAGE (JPG) with all your photos. In PowerPoint you can also drag them around to arrange it as you see fir. That's a quickie.
Now if you want to do more sophisticated stuff there is a software by MS call ICE to stitch photos... did not use it a lot so I can't comment but it does some pretty good acrobatic stuff with the photos!
The quick way though is POWERPOINT.
Have a great week end!
thank you!!! i found it very useful!
but what if I want to do the CTRL+click and click on another image to add more than one image and THEN copy them with ctrl+c and ctrl+v
