Gmail

[Nessie]

Ok, I know this is a silly question but when using gmail I am unable to copy and paste text to the main body of the email. Can copy and paste email addresses and subject matter but not any text. What am I doing wrong. No problems in doing this with outlook or other programmes, as this was wrote in word and copied

[debk]

Nessie, I sometimes experience this when using gmail with internet explorer. (Since I normally use firefox, it's not much of a problem... but occasionally my husband opens IE and I get into a gmail email and realize how irritating/impossible it would be to try to use IE/Gmail together all the time on my pc.)

Have you tried using a different browser?
debk

[Mountain Goat]

Interesting. I'm using IE6/PC/XPPro with Googlemail and no problems copy/pasting from Word 2000 to email body.

If Rich Formatting 'on' it carries the Word formatting across with no loss; if toggled to Plain Text formatting is lost, but to be expected.

MG

[Hells Bells]

MG, et al, no probs for me with IE and word xp, just checked it out on work PC this morning. Normally use Firefox though.

[debk]

Strangely, yesterday my husband was not able to copy/paste from this pc's gmail/IE6/XP... and I just tried it now and it's working fine.

I've never had this problem with firefox and google.
debk

[Big Sis..]

Now we are talking about failing[technical wise] I can join in....

I have emails sent to me some quite funny and clean.......
but I cant seem to put them on here I cut & paste but when i try to add them to the reply page on LMH the picture is displayed but the LMH page disappears.

Also some things I get [mostly word] I cant seem to paste & click.

I know its probably me but what .........

[Nessie]

No Ros its not just you. i am sure i did not have the problem a month ago and nothing changed since then.I have also received information where i have needed to copy paste text and forward on , but have been unable to.
Today i ended up copy pasteing in outlook and sending the mail to gmail then forwarding the mail on, had to do that as i know wanadoo through outlook would have blocked the address i was sending it to

[Paul Carmel]

Nessie,

I just copied and pasted your original post onto the main body of my gmail account, no problem.

Walk us through what you are doing, because this should not be a problem.

Ros,

You need to look at something like imageshack.us Upload what you want, then copy and past the outcome into the body of the post that you are about to make.

[Paul Carmel]

Nessie,

A thought .......delete your temporary Internet files, and try the C and P again. Also this will speed up any virus scan you do.

[Hells Bells]

Nessie, you can put your gmail settings onto Outlook if that helps.
Use the 'configure settings' option in the forwarding and POP settings in gmail for instructions. It also puts a copy into your gmail too. I do this for mail I need a read receipt for.

[Nessie]

Thanks Paul , deleted the temp files it did not seem to work , but was worth doing .

MG I am no techie however i changed the formatting , it was rich formatting ,changed to plain text and it would then allow me to paste and i can then switch back to rich and the contents is all there. Well thanks everybody at least that one headache less