Can’t right click and paste in excel

Lawana1973 

I just purchased Microsoft Office 365 after upgrading to a new Mac laptop.  I was also getting frustrated with this issue-and realize I'm late to the party :). Anyway, I looked at many message boards and could not find a fix that seemed to work.

I am not a tech person, so my non-tech answer is that I stumbled into a work around. When I've been highlighting the area I want to right click on, it hasn't been working consistently. For example, I would highlight several cells and right click and it would pop up the right click menu and then the next time it wouldn't. What I discovered is that if I highlight the area I want to right click on, THEN move my pointer away from the selected area, and then move it back to the selected area and right click, it works!  Moving the pointer into the selected area and right clicking also works. This wasn't something I had to do in past versions of excel. shrug. Hope this helps someone.