1. I click the right mouse button Copy and other options are available but Paste is dimmed. 2. I click Ctrl+V and nothing happens. 3. I click Edit and Paste and Ctrl+V are dimmed. I am with you to here! 4. I click Media and Paste is dark. When I click paste I get the dialog box for assigning categories to the media item. I assign a media category, tell FTM 2012 to copy the media item to the media folder and link to it there. The media item is inserted. You say you click Media and it seems that Paste becomes dark at that point. Just what aspect or portion of Media do you click? I tried clicking within the white space and away from other media items, I tried clicking on the word Media, but nothing *I* tried got your result 2. In the Collection work area, I scroll to the end of the list and click on some white space; i.e. no media item is selected. 1. I click the right mouse button but this time all items are dimmed. 2. I click Ctrl+V and nothing happens. 3. I click Edit and Paste and Ctrl+V are dimmed. 4. I click Media and Paste is dark. When I click paste I get the dialog box for assigning categories to the media item. I assign a media category, tell FTM 2012 to copy the media item to the media folder and link to it there. The media item is inserted. I am not sure why different testers are experiencing different operations. I am running FTM 2012 under Windows 7 Pro. As I said, I don't normally use this technique. Rather I right click on the image in the browser and select Save As. This way I can select where the image is saved to and I can rename the image using a more meaningful name. Once I've saved the file, I go to FTM 2012 Media work area and Add Media item. I used to use the copy & paste a good bit within FTM 16 and REALLY want this feature to work for me (and Peter) here in 2012. Like BJ I am using Windows 7 Professional SP1, 64-bit mode here.

I mean you click the Media option in the tool bar. This is the list of options immediately below the list of work areas across the top of the window. E.g. Plan People Places Media Sources Publish Web Search <--(work areas) File Edit View Media Tools Help (second line are Menu items) | | This is the one to click. BJ On 11/30/2011 5:24 PM, John Okerson wrote: > 1. I click the right mouse button Copy and other options are > available but Paste is dimmed. > 2. I click Ctrl+V and nothing happens. > 3. I click Edit and Paste and Ctrl+V are dimmed. > > I am with you to here! > > 4. I click Media and Paste is dark. When I click paste I get > the dialog box for assigning categories to the media item. > I assign a media category, tell FTM 2012 to copy the media > item to the media folder and link to it there. The media > item is inserted. > > You say you click Media and it seems that Paste becomes dark at that point. > Just what aspect or portion of Media do you click? I tried clicking within > the white space and away from other media items, I tried clicking on the > word Media, but nothing *I* tried got your result > > 2. In the Collection work area, I scroll to the end of the list and > click on some white space; i.e. no media item is selected. > 1. I click the right mouse button but this time all items are > dimmed. > 2. I click Ctrl+V and nothing happens. > 3. I click Edit and Paste and Ctrl+V are dimmed. > 4. I click Media and Paste is dark. When I click paste I get > the dialog box for assigning categories to the media item. > I assign a media category, tell FTM 2012 to copy the media > item to the media folder and link to it there. The media > item is inserted. >