CorelDRAW X7 Cut, Copy, Paste of text not working

Cut, Copy, Paste of text not working

I guess it's a good thing that I haven't had to ask a question on here for a long time! However this is irritating enough that I need help and can't find it mentioned anywhere else on here.

As of 2 days ago, Corel isn't accepting pasted text. The Cut, Copy & Paste Icons are always grayed out. I can copy and paste text from a corel document to a corel document but not from online into a corel document or even from email into a corel draw document. If I go into 'customization' the proper shortcuts are mentioned in corel.

I tried a repair of Corel Draw - no change. I have done a 'recover' on my computer back to before this happened but it didn't help. I checked and no updates were done.

I did read that there were some issues if there were too may Object Styles or Color Styles but that's not the problem here.

I'm running the latest version of Fire Fox, Windows 7 and CDX7.

Thanks in advance for any help you may have.

Nanci

0 MikeWe over 8 years ago

I would imagine you are using Firefox? If so, the latest updates to it broke copy paste into CD. Until FF is patched to fix this, either copy and paste into a text editor then copy paste that into CD or use a different browser.

Mike
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0 Keachybean over 8 years ago

Thanks Mike!
Here's what Firefox has to say about it.....

Sorry! Firefox 44 reduced the number of different formats placed on the clipboard, getting rid of some older ones that used non-Unicode character sets. Users have since reported that at least one old application (Word 97) cannot access any of the more modern formats on the clipboard and thinks the clipboard is empty.

We had one previous report that CorelDRAW could no longer read text on the clipboard from Firefox, so I suspect you have the same situation: After updating i have problem with FireFox Clipboard. I don't know why CorelDRAW doesn't read the newer formats, but that's neither here nor there...

Firefox 45 is scheduled to restore the missing formats, but that won't be out for a few weeks. Until then, the workaround continues to be pasting into an intermediate application, selecting the pasted content there, cutting, and then pasting into the old application. Unless someone comes up with something better in the meantime.
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0 MikeWe over 8 years ago in reply to Keachybean

Yeah, there's been a few threads. It broke morenthan a few applications, not just CD. And there were at least 4 reports from different users to them that I know of.
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0 Ariel over 8 years ago in reply to MikeWe

I did the test of download the Firefox 45.0 beta and copy/paste works fine again
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0 Keachybean over 8 years ago in reply to Ariel

Thank you Ariel. I downloaded and installed the Firefox 45 Beta from here, http://www.todaysoftware.net/windows/network-internet/browsers/mozilla-firefox-45/ and it works again!
**Please note** Install Beta Version software at your own risk.
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