Microsoft KB Archive/29047

Prompt Message Is Misleading with Long Copies

PSS ID Number: Q29047 Article last modified on 10-16-1998

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Pressing ESC to cancel a copy command will cancel the copy only when the message “Select new location and press ENTER or press ESC to cancel” is displayed.

To demonstrate this, do the following:


 * 1) Create a large database.
 * 2) Select the entire database.
 * 3) From the Edit menu, choose Copy.
 * 4) From the File menu, choose New, and open a new Word Processing file.
 * 5) Press ENTER to carry out the copy. It will take a few moments.

After following this procedure, note that the message disappears from the prompt line. Pressing ESC at this point does not cancel the copy.

This behavior is according to program design.

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