[dnalop]

I have two computers; one with Windows XP SP2 and the other with Vista Home Premium. I have a problem with Copy and Paste procedure by using "drag and drop" between windows in Vista. It simply doesn't work. Why?
In XP I often copy highlighted text from one window (Browser) just by dragging it onto another one in the Task Bar (Word or Search field in the new browser window), which opens as soon as the mouse cursor hovers over it. I can't reproduce the same procedure in Vista? When I try, that second window's rectangle in the Task Bar changes only to orange color but it never opens to let me finish pasting like in XP. So, I'm forced there to use the "usual" Copy and Paste technique.
Thanks for any advise.

Edit 1: Subject of the thread was edited by dnalop to reflect more accurate and final question that evolved from the original one during the disscussion.

Edit 2: Per request of [~44270] (see his reasoning below) the Subject was brought back to its original form and new topic was created instead by dnalop.

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[piyushsingh]

Its a property of the the individual prgrams you are copy/pasting from/into. All applications do not support this. The individual behavior is adjusted from the settings within the particular program.

[rgreen4]

What browsers are you trying to do this with?

Normally in Firefox and IE7, I just highlight, right click, click on copy, go to a new tab, right click and then click paste.

[dnalop]

I'm using IE 7 on both machines. I am familiar with "right click" Copy and Paste technique but I'm interested here in "drag and paste", which is faster for me and involves less clicking around.
Let me clarify a bit more what and when works/doesn't work.
Winows XP:
1) In two separate IE windows with pages that have text in first one and Search (or any other fill-in box) in the second, I can drag the text from first to the second and drop it there.
2) I can reproduce the same situation with the second window as Word and WordPad except NotePad.
3) However, I can't acomplish that within one IE window among different Tabs (both in XP and Vista)
4) Now reverse; I can drag text from Word or WordPad (except Notepad) to IE fill-in box. However that always works here like Cut-n-Paste because it removes the text from Word.
5) I can drag-n-drop within one IE window that has both text and fill-in box
Windows Vista:
I can only drag-n-drop within one IE window that has both text and fill-in box.

[piyushsingh]

As i said before, its an application specific thing , not available in every application. Firefox allows you to do this , IE doesnt support this fully. Word also has these settings , by default they are ON, but they can be turned off if required.

Regarding the cut-paste by drag & drop from word - If you want to copy-paste text from word , hold the ctrl key while dragging text.

[dnalop]

Thanks for the Ctrl key tip.

I still don't understand why I can drag-n-drop in XP between two basic applications (IE7 and Word; all made by Microsoft) and can't do that in Vista. To me it's a step backwards if Vista is responsible for that.

Could you tell me where in IE7 or Word (or even WordPad) I can find the settings you are referring to? Maybe XP and Vista have them somewhere, too? Thanks.

[piyushsingh]

IE doesnt support this . I tried both on XP and vista. Firefox, word , wordpad did fine.
To change these settings in word 2007 : Click the office button on top -> word options .In the advanced tab , the setting is there as highlighted in the screen below .



hope this helps.

[dnalop]

Thanks again. The screen shot was helpful in confirming that those settings in Word are/were ON by default.


So, here is what we have:



1) the Word (and even the WordPad) is not an issue in both XP and Vista; one can drag-n-copy between its two separate windows



2) IE7 and Word are not an issue in XP; one can drag-n-copy between those two different windows (back and forth)



3)IE7 and Word are problematic in Vista;
a) one can drag-n-copy only from Word into IE7 fill-in field
b) one can't drag-n-copy from IE7 into Word



The culprit seems to be then with Vista preventing IE7 to accomplish what XP allows it without the problem.


Therefore my original (but modified by now) question remains still unanswered...Why can't I drag-n-copy from IE7 into Word in Vista but have no problem with it in XP?

[piyushsingh]

I didnt get one thing here, i m not able to drag and drop text from IE7 in XP also. Its same for me in both xp and vista.
But i think you are being too curious about this thing. Drag and drop text isnt a common thing to do , mostly prefer copy and paste. For files/folders its OK as its universally supported.
Someone else may have some more ideas.

[Adama]

piyushsingh said:

I didnt get one thing here, i m not able to drag and drop text from IE7 in XP also. Its same for me in both xp and vista.
But i think you are being too curious about this thing. Drag and drop text isnt a common thing to do , mostly prefer copy and paste. For files/folders its OK as its universally supported.
Someone else may have some more ideas.

I do not think the drag and drop feature works for text. But you can copy and paste, it'll probably do the same thing for you.

[dnalop]

piyushsingh said:

I didnt get one thing here, i m not able to drag and drop text from IE7 in XP also. Its same for me in both xp and vista.
But i think you are being too curious about this thing. Drag and drop text isnt a common thing to do , mostly prefer copy and paste. For files/folders its OK as its universally supported.
Someone else may have some more ideas.Yes, I am able to drag-n-paste in XP between IE7 and Word/WordPad without limits (both text and pictures) as I can do that with the traditional Copy-n-Paste. It is interesting that you can't do that in your XP and I can.

It's not that I'm just "curious about this thing"; I'm looking for a final explanation of this limitation in Vista (at least in my case). It is somewhat important to me because I often utilize the drag-n-paste between IE7 and Word, if I want to print only those sections of the page that I'm interested in. Using this technique is really faster and more convenient than all that right/left Copy-n-Paste clicking. Therefore It has become a common feature to me for quite some time and it has always worked until the Vista arrived.

I may have another question for you but it's a different topic, so I may have to create a new thread for it. See, if you can help me there.

[piyushsingh]

I ll try my best .

[mphenterprises]

Hi Everyone. It appears Dnalop changed the Discussion question to reflect the slighty different direction that the Discussion has taken. To keep the Discussion in line with the Discussion title, please submit all future responses to the initial post.




Hi Dnalop. For future reference, if the original Discussion's focus shifts from one topic to another, please just start another Discussion. Even though the issues may be similar, there is no way to officially change the Discussion titles of each response within a current Discussion.

[dnalop]

Hi [mphenterprises|~44270],

Nothing "appears", I did change the Subject and explained why in the initial post.

However, I understand your point and will comply with your request right now. I will bring back the original question to this thread and create a new topic for that slightly modified question.

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