Stupid Word problem

EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
edited January 2004 in Science & Tech
I have this absolutely stupid problem, where as when I open word, it copies a miniture picture of a phone to the clipboard when it opens, regardless of whether I am opening an existing document, or making a new one. This is highly annoying because I normally have something I need in the clipboard.

The actual picture that is sent to the clipboard is attached.

Comments

  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I don't mean to thread crap or anything, and as soon as I get a chance I'll search for some info on your problem, but....


    I find that incredibly funny for some reason. I don't know why. Maybe it's this lack of sleep. Ah, well... Good luck and I shall return. :)
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Yeah, I thought it was quite funny too to start with, I was like....... WTF is this?....

    Bit later... WTF.... where did that come from?!

    Especially if I am image editing at the same time, if I open word, then paste in the image software, I end up with that stupid phone Icon in there.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    You could try doing a repair of office.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Doesn't really sound like something a repair would fix as it isn't really a "problem" as such..... i'll try it later anyway....
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited December 2003
    Perhaps the normal.dat is corrupt? Maybe set up and save a new template.

    ~dodo
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Yes, I'd have thought normal.dat has been saved with a picture of this little phone.

    ~Cyrix
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2004
    CyrixInstead wrote:
    Yes, I'd have thought normal.dat has been saved with a picture of this little phone.

    ~Cyrix
    That would be my first bet. Second would be clearing my browser cache, and all temp files. Third would be cussing a lot and kicking the side of the machine.

    Hope one of them works for you. :cheers:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Well, I scanned my PC, and I don't have any files named either normal.doc or normal.dat on my machine, including hidden files/folders. Which seems quite wierd....
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Right, the file is "normal.dot" and it's not that as it does it with all word documents, not just blank templates.

    This is the stupidest problem EVER.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    Well, I scanned my PC, and I don't have any files named either normal.doc or normal.dat on my machine, including hidden files/folders. Which seems quite wierd....
    Look for normal.dot

    Document template file. (Also the target of some viruses...)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    Right, the file is "normal.dot" and it's not that as it does it with all word documents, not just blank templates.

    This is the stupidest problem EVER.
    We posted at the same time, but until you Save a file, you are merely making a temporary change to normal.dot.

    Sometimes these problems happen when you're trying to save a file and something goes whacko. Try deleting normal.dot - this will force Word to make a new one. If that doesn't happen, try extracting it on your own.
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited January 2004
    Whoops, yeah, sorry on the normal.dot

    Have you cleaned the temporary files as profdlp suggested?

    ~dodo
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I hate to say this, but normal.dot recreate and emptying the dang multi-part clipbook in Word might solve this, and look at the macros in docs.... I THINK this is a save of a doc witha save of normal.dot with something in the clipbook, but could also be something macroish of malignant or mischevous sort that crept in. No change a brother played with a macro call in normal.dot, is there??? AFAIK, most of it is legible in WordPad or OpenOffice.org

    John.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Deleting all the normal.dot files on this machine didn't help, and the multi-part clipbook is cleared anyway, so it can't be that. The phone is still appearing :mad:
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