Friends and Neighbors, I have been barking up the wrong tree.

I tried to copy editable text with embedded image objects FROM a Wordpad document and lo and behold! it went into the clipboard!  So the clipboard is NOT the problem.  Apparently each application program controls how and what it will copy to the clipboard.  This means that the culprit is the Internet Explorer version I am using.  It no longer copies embedded image objects when it copies the text that contains them to the clipboard - it only copies the text (and evidently some clue that images are available on the internet, which Word 2003 picks up).  This change happened sometime between my OEM HP WinXP Home and XP Home SP1.

Does anyone know whether Foxfire or any of those other browsers still copy editable text with embedded image objects complete to the clipboard?  You can tell by trying to paste the clips into Wordpad (Word 2003 will probably still try to go get the links).   This is text that when pasted can be edited - highlighted, font changed, etc. - and contains small embedded image objects or illustrations to the text, that after pasting can be dragged through the text to other locations in the text.

I am such a dummy; I should have thought to try copying FROM Wordpad right off.
AnnaSummers

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