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How can I make it possible to copy and paste text from Outlook into Word?

In my old Outlook and Word, I could simply highlight text in an e-mail and paste it into a Word document. With my new Microsoft Office 2010, this seems entirely hit and miss. Occasionally I find a way to get it to work (don't know what I do to make it possible) but mostly when I highlight, right-click 'copy' and then 'paste' in the Word document, I just get a black blob. I can't see any settings anywhere that relate to this. Any ideas would be very gratefully received.

Update:

Oooh, Nik, that works! But why on earth have Microsoft made the simple function that has always worked in their software become unuseable?

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Try highlighting the txt and use control+ c to copy it, and than use control + V to paste it.

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    5 years ago

    Why not merely record a macro? think about numerous, with ideal names (and convinced, shortcut keys in case you want). think about Monday_Meeting, Tuesday_Meeting, etc. Then on the point you want the boilerplate textual content to be inserted merely run "Tuesday" or regardless of.

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