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Copy/paste no longer working in Excel
Sometime in the last few months the copy/paste function within Excel (Office 365 version) stopped working for me. I have updated Windows and all Office apps to the latest version but that hasn't fix...
- I’d recommend that everyone having thus issue goes to File > Feedback and send a frown, putting your details in the section and start it [Can’t Copy Paste]
Also what version is everyone in who’s having this problem ? File > Account
It will read something like
Semi Annual Channel
Build 1234.567
I had this very same problem. I tried to copy and paste from a word document onto excel but wouldn’t work. Right clicking also didnt work as the drop down only appeared for less than a second and disappeared again. So I opened the clipboard and saw that i had 24 items of the same one in the clipboard. Tried to Clear All but to no avail.
Anyway, i did this. I clicked on an empty cell. And on the keyboard, i pressed Escape. And that fixed it. That’s it! And i almost bought a new computer! Glad I didn’t! Phew!
Anyway, i did this. I clicked on an empty cell. And on the keyboard, i pressed Escape. And that fixed it. That’s it! And i almost bought a new computer! Glad I didn’t! Phew!
This did it for me, Im glad it was simple. Click on empty Cell and press ESC a few times and try again.
Pg. Hj. Sahril PB wrote:
I had this very same problem. I tried to copy and paste from a word document onto excel but wouldn’t work. Right clicking also didnt work as the drop down only appeared for less than a second and disappeared again. So I opened the clipboard and saw that i had 24 items of the same one in the clipboard. Tried to Clear All but to no avail.
Anyway, i did this. I clicked on an empty cell. And on the keyboard, i pressed Escape. And that fixed it. That’s it! And i almost bought a new computer! Glad I didn’t! Phew!