Closed Bug 127371 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Can't copy and paste text from MS Word to email Compose

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Editor
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
CLOSED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: arudmik, Assigned: Brade)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted, platform-parity) 

Cannot copy text from a Word document and paste it into the email Compose page.
 To do this I need to Copy and Paste to a TextEdit document and then Copy and
Paste to the email Compose window.
should be an editor problem
Assignee: ducarroz → kin
Component: Composition → Editor: Core
Product: MailNews → Browser
QA Contact: sheelar → sujay
Summary: Can copy and paste text from MS Word to email Compose → Can't copy and paste text from MS Word to email Compose
What happens?
*** Bug 133147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
brade can you look into this?
Assignee: kin → brade
is this only on OSX?
All my testing is on MacOSX
Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002041712 (RC1). Text copied from Word X, shown as
Styled Text on the Clipboard, will not paste into a Composer document.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
pink--this sounds like a clipboard problem.  Any ideas?
Keywords: pp
we don't support styled text. if they don't also put 'TEXT' on the clipboard,
there's not much we can do about it, and they're bad bad bad bad people.
From private e-mail exchange with Andy:
> The test is simple - no special styles.  No images.  WHen I paste nothing 
> happens.  The paste command is enabled (I guess Netscape is detecting that there 
> is something there).

Perhaps we shoudl disable the paste item if the clipboard doesn't have a flavor
we can handle?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.2alpha
What version(s) of Word have been tested?
I'm using MS Office for MacOS X.  It seems that Word does not put a text only
version into the paste buffer.



Great :-(  Well then there's not much we can do short term.
Do we have any tools to detect what clipboard flavors Word makes available?
We'll need that info to consider writing converterters in the future.
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: mozilla1.2alpha → Future
Re: comment 10, absolutely yes. The Paste menu item should not be enabled unless
pastable content is on the Clipboard.

Should I file a new bug about that?
I noticed that you have this ticket marked as MacOS X... Well, this 
happens on my WinXP machine on MS Word 2002 SP-1 with 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021123

Incidentally, I'm pretty sure Word converts information to its 
"Rich Text Format" when sending content to the Clipboard.

Here's a link for how to turn something *into* RTF but it should 
be a good example of what word is putting on the Clipboard as well. 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q216676

Hope this helps.
I am able to copy from MS Word (v.X service release 1) and paste into both
Netscape 7 and current mozilla builds.

-->worksforme
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I verify that the bug is fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → CLOSED
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.