Good morning, I have a real problem and I'm not really sure how to explain it. Here goes, though. I publish a weekly bulletin and I use MS Publisher to prepare the bulletin. I have many articles that I prepared in MS Word that I have been copying from MS Word into a text box in MS Publisher as needed. I recently upgraded everything from Word and Publisher 2000 to Word and Publisher 2003. Since the upgrade, I've had a very real problem copying articles from Word to Publisher. No matter what I do, the article from Word will not paste into Publisher. I have tried pasting as unformatted text, formatted text, rtf, etc., and nothing works. I went into Help in Publisher and didn't find anything there that seemed to help. I looked as MS help online and didn't find anything there, either. Does anyone have any ideas on what might be happening and some way to fix it? I've got over 250 articles in MS Word and if something doesn't change I'm going to have to retype all of them in a MS Publisher text box to get them into publisher. Are text boxes somehow protected in Publisher 2003 or something like that? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Particulars: AMD Athlon X2 with over 100 gigs of free disk space, 512 megs of ram, WinXP Pro and MS Office 2003. Thanks... Loy PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml