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Jon Firooz
Copper Contributor
Oct 03, 2017

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...
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  • Wyn Hopkins's avatar
    Wyn Hopkins
    Mar 11, 2018
    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
Michele Santamaria's avatar
Michele Santamaria
Copper Contributor
Sep 10, 2018
Hi Jon, I had a similar issue. To my surprise I was able to fix it by simply highlighting the cell content and changing the color to black: on Home I clicked the icon A with color underneath and set the theme color to black. And abracadabra it worked. I know many moons passed by since you entered this ticket in the forum and probably you already fixed it. Anyway for future reference trying to help other users, as well.
Thank you, Michael MasterLinguist

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