Steve Hayes wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:43:24 +0000, Ian Goddard <goddai01@hotmail.co.uk> > wrote: > >> Steve Hayes wrote: >>> >>> If only they had continued to develop OS/2, which could run Windows in a >>> window as well. >>> >> >> Virtualbox lets you run Windows in a window ;) It also lets you run >> individual Windows apps in their own individual windows. > > And copy and paste between them? Yup. Host Debian Linux 64bit. Guest Win 7 32bit. Start guest full-screen (ie it occupies the whole of the screen not just appearing inside a maximised host window), fire up Word & Publisher, de-maximise so they appear side-by side. Enter a Header 1 & some body text into Word. Switch guest to seamless mode (ie the Windows apps appear in separate host windows). Copy text from Word. Go to Publisher & select Copy special. Publisher asks if I want to past as a Word object, select Yes & it does. Note I'm not at all familiar with Publisher so I'm not sure what other options there'd be. Also copies & pastes from Notepad to Notepad. Notepad is rather easier on the eye as Word & Publisher have so much clutter around them that they get scaled down to near unreadability when running in windows small enough to show both on a laptop. Can also copy & paste back & forth between host & guest OK for text but, as the applications on the two platforms have different semantics, WP formatting is lost. I haven't the memory on this laptop to try run multiple guests so I don't know if I could copy & paste between different guests. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk