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Text will not copy from other programs to word (Mac)
Hi,
You posted the converse situation where Word is not allowing you to paste from other programs. Here is that question
These two should really be combined.
I am not on a Mac.
I recommend editing the title of your questions to include that it is Word for the Mac.
Can you also include in your questions the name of your Operating System as well as the number.
This may be a problem with what Google is doing with material from the Word clipboard.
That you can paste plain text is a clue that may help in getting a resolution.
Hi there-
I've been having the same problem (Office for Mac 2019, under Sequoia OS). Word by default is only pasting text previously copied from another Word document, unless I specify that I want text only, in which case I do get the most recently-copied text that I'm trying to paste in.
Doesn't matter where the text I want to paste was copied from (Browser, email, pdf, etc.) It's as if there are two clipboards in use, one of which is specific to docx source files, and that's the one Word is pasting from by default.
Did you ever resolve this? I turned off "smart cut and paste" but that had no effect.