Thank you BJ for your idea of a "test". Your are correct in all your assumptions. I did as you suggested - tried to Ctrl C a place in a census at ancestry.com. The text I want to copy was "*Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts*". Then went to the fact that I created - 1940 Census- and the result was* 07 Apr 1898 *- which is the text of the first fact for this person - her birth date. I opened Word Pat and pasted into that - and I got 07 Apr 1898.- the wrong result if the info was on my clipboard. I am using a program called Gadwin PrintScreen Pro which, when you hit the PrtScn Key it copies that to the clipboard. So that must be interfering with FTM 14. But I just turned it off. I rebooted my computer and PrintScreen Pro is not activated. I repeated the copy/paste routine and unfortunately got the same results -the birth date copied - not the place. So I don't know it Gadwin PrintScreen Pro could be the problem. Now if I go to the fact, then copy from ancestry.com, then past to the fact I get the correct info. Any other ideas? I so appreciate your help Judy in VA On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:59 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure I'm following your comment. As I understand it, > > 1. You find something on a Census web page that you want to copy into > FTM. Using your example, it is a place name. > 2. You highlight the place name in the web site and use Ctrl+C to copy > the information into the Windows Clipboard. > 3. You then go into FTM, go to the individual, create a fact (Census or > Residence). > 4. Place the cursor in the fact's Place field. > 5. Use Ctrl+V to paste the information from the Windows Clipboard into > the FTM Place field but something else is pasted into the Place field. > > Is this correct? > > The only way to can accurately paste the information from the Census Web > page is to > > 1. Go into FTM, create the fact, place the cursor in the fact's Place > field. > 2. Go to the Census web site > 3. Highlight the place name in the web site. > 4. Use Ctrl+C to copy the information into Windows Clipboard. > 5. Return to the FTM fact's Place field and use Ctrl+V to paste the > place name into the field. > > Is that correct? > > I find it interesting because I use Ctrl+C to copy information all the > time and am able to the go to a field in FTM and use Ctrl+V to paste the > information from the Windows Clipboard. FTM is simply using the latest > entry in the Windows Clipboard. > > You might try this. > > 1. Don't go to the FTM fact's Place field first. > 2. Use Ctrl+C to copy the information from the Census web site. > 3. Go to the FTM fact's Place field and use Ctrl+V to paste the > information into the field. > 4. If it is not the correct information, make a note of what was pasted. > 5. Open up NotePad or an email message and paste into it. > 6. What is pasted? Is it the Census information or what was pasted > into the FTM fact's field? > > Do you use any type of utility that allows you to select what to paste > from the clipboard from previous copy actions? > > BJ > > On 1/3/2014 9:26 AM, J. Strong wrote: > > My program (FTM 2014) or computer (Win 7 Home Prem, 8 GB memory), has > never frozen when I copy and paste. BUT I can only copy and paste if my > cursor is located at the exact place in FTM where I want to copy TO. I > might copy a place name from a census in Ancestry to the individual fact > section. If I am not at that exact location in FTM 2014 when I did the > copy (Ctl C), something else would paste - namely the first bit of text > that appears on the Fact page. > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >