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Jon Firooz
Oct 03, 2017Copper Contributor
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...
- Mar 11, 2018I’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
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Andrei Miclea
Copper Contributor
This problem is just because you have 2 instances of EXCEL.EXE and you want to copy paste from one instance to another. You can't copy paste values for example. You can see that from your Start Task Manager. In excel 2010 any workbook opened from explorer was opened from the last application opened. In 365 they try but from my experience sometimes fails to open all of them in only one application.
A solution is to open that excel file using File->Open commands inside your application and not double-clicking an excel file from explorer. I hope this helps.
aJennyAnn
Mar 22, 2019Copper Contributor
Not necessarily. I found this problem trying to copy/paste on the same worksheet.