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Adela
October 9th, 2006, 06:43 AM
(winXP Pro; OE 6.0; IE 6.0; Dell Dimension XPS T450MHz Pentium III; Norton AV)

Hello, did anyone come across the following:

The functions or buttons on top of the desktop rows: "cut", "copy", "undo" and "redo" are greyd out everywhere - in Word, in Corel WordPerfect, and in Outlook Express. I shut off the computer and reopened it, but the same thing. In one other file in Word it's also greyd out the "insert hyperlink"...

I hope it's not a virus. I didnt' defrag and do all the things I did when I had the win98 as I was told the winXP doesn't need them. Is it true?

I can't remember the name of those 3 or 4 rows across the top of the desktop; for instance I remember that the bottom row is "taskbar"...

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. Adela

Big Booger
October 9th, 2006, 09:00 AM
http://help.lockergnome.com/office/copy-paste-amp-cut-buttons-greyed-ftopict525774.html

Adela
October 21st, 2006, 05:06 AM
Thanks so much Big Booger! I see now that even a technician couldn't find the solution, so I guess the copy/paste will have to do. I hadn't thought about it and this is better than nothing! :)

Thanks again! Adela