A table that contains a People Picker control is not pasted correctly in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007

You open an InfoPath Form Template (.xsn) file in Design Mode of Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. You copy a table that contains a People Picker control, and then you paste the table to another InfoPath file. However, only the text in the table is pasted. The People Picker control, the table structure, and any other content is missing.

This issue occurs because of an error in Windows Internet Explorer.

In InfoPath 2007, users create forms by using Trident as the designer platform. However, Trident has the following issues.

Note Trident is the name of the layout engine for Internet Explorer.

• The OBJECT element in Trident has its own atom table. This causes the typical attribute array clone not to work. Trident cannot clone an array unless the atom table is set up.
• The PARAM elements of an object cannot be copied.

These Trident issues prevent the copy and paste function to work correctly.

Security update information

To resolve this problem, install the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site: For more technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note This update was first included in security update 978207 (MS10-002). For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: