MS Word 2010 in Office 2010 Professional
When pasting text within and between documents, the text is sometimes pasted normally but sometimes appears as a black rectangle.
Investigating further using paste special, when the black rectangle appears the copied text can only be pasted as bitmap or device independent bitmap, whereas when pasting works normally there are further options (unformatted text, formatted text, HTML etc)
The fault is nothing to do with the source text. If the same block of text is copied and pasted, the fault sometimes occurs and sometimes does not.
If the fault occurs when pasting with the mouse, immediately using Control+V pastes normally. Similarly, if the fault occurs with Control+V then clicking paste with the mouse results in normal pasting activity.
So it seems the source text is copied into memory properly, then there is a random decision to treat it as text or as a bitmap, and if it is treated as a bitmap then pasting again immediately afterwards allows it to be pasted as text.
The paste default options have been tinkered with to no avail, the Adobe Acrobat plug-in has been disabled to no avail.
Any ideas?
