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These many years later, I want to report my delight in the success of that registry’hack’ solution. Rather than creating the reg file as instructed for a rather later version of Regedit than ‘4’, I manually created the key in Win7 (interesting learning experience) on a ‘test’ hard drive, and when I found it worked, exported the new registry key to the actual Win7 that I use; and also into WinXP I still have. This success has come after posting my request for a solution in about 24 help forums to no avail – other than being pointed to ‘always on top’ and window-on-top, both of which create the effect but only until the next reboot. DeskPins and PowerMenu claim to be able to do it, but I could not make them do it. I give help remotely (through Team Viewer) and give the instructions via GTalk so it is important for the GTalk window NOT to be obscured by other windows. Setting the ‘always-on-top’ feature used to take a considerable portion of the beginning of any session, but it will now be as easy as a click in the right place . Thank you SO MUCH again !
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As near as I know, I was already able to do that in O.E. Is was COPYING that I was asking about.I’ll try your suggestion of converting an eml to txt, more for the sheer wonder of it than the actual usefulness of this example. So I hope to hear from you whether what I attached reached you with images intact. If it did, I’ll tell you it’s relevance to ‘my problem’.
For you to see the image, do you just reverse the process and rename ‘txt’ to ’eml’ ?
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These days my email is with Gmail (that is web based, isn’t it ?), so I am already there (?).
And since emails are indelible from Gmail, I could always go back and open in Webmail the one I want to copy from and have the copy facility ????<> Before I try it, I have get my head around the idea that an email with graphics can be converted (renamed) to .txt, but leave the graphics intact !!!! ????
After all, my discussion is not about copying text, but about copying graphics elements.David
I have put this problem to a few people, and you are the first to approach it in an insightful manner instead of merely indicating work-arounds. That is very encouraging to me. Your example of WORD to NOTEPAD is illuminating.
<> for a number of reasons I would be reluctant to do that. That is not the kind of work-around I am prepared to consider. I had more or less given up hope of of getting the problem ‘solved’, but I was still intrigued as to why/how the problem arises. Your primer in OLE has started to open my door to under-standing, if not fixing, the issue.
<> On the contrary, I think you analysis is correct, and I look forward to gathering “more detailed information and reproduction steps.” That is going to take time, just like my awareness of the mismatch took time to grow. I cannot lay my hands on good examples in the very short term, but am confident that I can in a longer term; so I will keep the URL to this thread on a safe place till examples arise, which they used to and so surely will again.
I have an email example I COULD send, but its extension (eml) is not valid according to the Rules of Attachments. So I await if you have a work around for THAT.
What you say about on-line images makes much sense.
The situation I refer to, is where images show in an email AFTER going off-line.
I use Outlook Express where the emails are stored locally, and will display graphics without an internet connection being open.There are (received) emails consisting of text plus graphics. If I SELECT ALL and paste into WORD, the text appears, but only rectangles for the graphics. Whether or not I can paste individual graphics into the rectangles, is variable, but usually not. Then paradoxically, there are emails where I can paste graphics from a received into a new email ONLY after pasting first into WORD, then recopying from Word.
I think it gets more complicated than even that – that is why I listed ‘complex’ along with ‘paradoxical’ and that is where I have to owe you further ‘detail’.
