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To: jw who wrote (7184)	12/5/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

great tip, jw! that certainly solved a riddle for me. i have experienced this inability to select text and copy-paste same when on certain web sites. one is on zdnet sites. i'll include an example: zdnet.com any success i was having on this page copying and pasting text i was definitely attributing to luck. and intermittent luck at that! but the technique you described worked perfectly. well, maybe not perfectly... still i am not able to highlight the selected text so that i can visually determine what i have selected for copying. interestingly, after pasting same into a word processor, i go back to the web page and the text that i copied will then be highlighted. now i just have to remember this technique. it is so rare that i run into this isolated situation. any idea what causes it? initially i was guessing that the web site had taken some sort of preventative measure to discourage copying documents? :) mark