Betty, Like Bob, I was unsure of what you are doing, and to be honest, I am still puzzled. I cannot for the life of me see how the Legacy Clipboard gets into the act. I don't use WORD, but do put many files of different formats in the file section of the gallery - actually only for Sources.
To do this all I do is click the File Icon, browse to the file, select it and click open. To satisfy myself I just put an OpenOffice .odt file in (their equivalent to .doc) and had no problem. It has just occurred to me that with your mention of clipboards, you are trying to put it in a Note Field. You cannot do this, it must be a text file for this. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: BF Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to Clear the Clipboard Thanks Bob, under Pictures, I'm trying to link a Word file in 'Files.' I save a lot of things in Word because it's faster/easier/some editing, than finding a place to save jpg. Yes, I use Win7/Office 2010, haven't had a problem with other software; would Legacy change the file extension? Guess I have to go back through the Word hdstns and change them all to jpg! It's the Legacy clipboard that I believe is the problem. I can copy the 'new' hdstn in Word and save it to another location. Legacy is keeping the unedited file and uses it every time I try to link the new one. Betty FL Not quite sure what you are doing! Why would you try to save a Word doc? Why wouldn't you keep it a JPG and link the JPG? I am assuming you actually have Word on your computer. If not, the file will open in the next-best thing, Wordpad. If you do have Word, then your file associations got a little mixed up and you would have to change that in Windows. Some versions of Windows Clipboard will allow you to save up to 24 [I think] different things in the clipboard, but when you paste it will ask you which of the 24 you want to paste? bob From: "BF" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:39:46 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] How to Clear the Clipboard I'm a relatively new Legacy user: I entered a Word 'file' of a headstone. It was too big and needed cropping, which I did. Also changed the name. But every time I attempt to add the new file it loads the old file, even tho I'm clicking on the new file name! I deleted the old file. I tried adding a wrong file to see if that changed the clipboard - nope. How to clear the clipboard? I want to add several hdstns from Word as 'files' so would like to find the answer before the problem arises again. Also it opens in Wordpad, can I change it open in Word? At one point it asked me something like 'insert from Windows clipboard?' I said yes - after I copied it, got the same old file result. Could not get that option to try again, and again... Just spend a lot of time in Archives, but with a lot of the info being from 07, wonder if a lot of those Q&As might have been addressed in the software by now. (Didn't find this particular question.) Thanks. Betty FL Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
