How do you copy and paste text in Vista??

[Nicole]

I currently got a tablet from gateway. But in Vista, it will not let you
highlight text from a website to copy and paste it somewhere else. If you
right click, it lets you select all. But in XP / or any other windows you
could highlight any text on any website and copy it. How come I can't do it
or how do i do it???

[Spirit]

Works for me, some websites are setup to not allow copies.

Try several sites

[Wayne Moses]

Hello Nicole,

N> I currently got a tablet from gateway. But in Vista, it will not let
N> you highlight text from a website to copy and paste it somewhere
N> else. If you right click, it lets you select all. But in XP / or any
N> other windows you could highlight any text on any website and copy
N> it. How come I can't do it or how do i do it???

In my case I can highlight-copy-paste from any application running under
my Vista Home Premium.

The problem I have is with MS Front Page or MS Expression Web and using the
shift or Ctrl buttons to highlight certain blocks of text. As soon as I press
one of these buttons, highlight no longer works. Also, if I start highlighting
at the top end of a long piece, then I scroll down to the bottom end, place
my cursor there, press shift before I l/click (to cause the highlight to
continue to the new cursor location) the highlighting is undone.

This only happens in these applications.

Regards,
Wayne Moses
Houston, Texas

[Jack G]

I have Vista with the same problems you mentioned. I tried everything, and
realize now the problem was with Microsoft explorer 7. There seems to be a
flaw between Explorer and Vista. I finally had enough, and downloaded
Firefox. The problem is gone. Hope this will help you as well.
Jack G

[marz]

other ways to do this, if the page in question has attempted to block copy, is to move the site to high security zone, if the page still renders then the scripts will be disabled. or you could view page source and copy text from the html source.
alternatively, you could respect the publisher's wishes to leave their material where it is or write to them asking for a copy.