I’m running an iMac DVSE on OS 9. IE is version 5.
Like in many apps, in IE, the keyboard shortcut for Copy is Command-C. I use it all the time, especially in IE.
Or at least I used to. The command no longer works. Nothing happens when I highlight something and then press Command-C. If I want to copy something, I need to select Copy with the mouse from the Edit menu.
Furthermore, in the Edit menu, the shortcut notation (the Mac loop-cornered square symbol and C) that is supposed to be there isn’t there anymore. Only Cut and Paste have their shortcut notations.
It’s been like this for four days now. I have no idea how it happened, assuming I am responsible for it. Nothing else is acting weird with the program.
Does anybody have any idea why this happened, and/or what I can do to get it back?
I searched through all the newsgroups for IE, and couldn’t find a solution to this problem…can you give us an example of a webpage that you have visited and couldn’t copy from? (For example, can you copy text from Straight Dope?)
This was the advice given by a NetScape developer to a Mac user that was having similar problems with their Communicator browser: