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Mac Encarta 97: Pasting Text into Search Box Finds Nothing

Article ID: 158227

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to perform a search in Encarta, nothing is found.

This occurs when you perform a search by copying two or more words of an article, and then pasting it into a text box in the Word Search flyout.

CAUSE

Encarta copyright information is pasted into the text box along with the selected text.

The Encarta copyright information accompanies the selected text when you copy more than one word at a time. This is by design.

The following is an example of the copyright information:

"Greek Mythology," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia(C) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

WORKAROUND

Manually type the words you want to search for into the text box, or copy the words one at a time into the text box.

MORE INFORMATION

Because each article does not contain the copyright information in the actual text, Encarta's search engine will not find all of the words specified in the query.

You can view all of the copied text by pasting it into a word processor, such as Microsoft Word, or Apple's SimpleText.

Additional query words: 1997 multi media multimedia multi-media mmtitles kbmm macmm

Keywords: kbhowto KB158227


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