Forum Discussion
Copy/paste no longer working in Excel
- 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
Thanks, I'm using a PC. I've tried Office repair/update and that hasn't solved the problem.
Hi Jon,
Under the Home Ribbon, can you expand cell styles. Do you have something like this? or are there many many odd formats..
Wyn Hopkins Hi Wyn. I am having the same problem Jon had. When I expand the cell styles option I have several odd styles show up as custom. How do I fix it?
Sorry for the delayed response, for some reason I didn't get a notification about another post so I just saw it when I came back and checked manually.
It's definitely not a keyboard issue. I have the same problem at home and at work and regardless of whether I'm using a docking station with external keyboard or built-in laptop keyboard.
Any other ideas? Excel is basically worthless if you can't copy and paste cells.
- Any chance your keyboard has a problem? e.g. if the Escape key is pressed, the clipboard is emptied in Excel when a cell is copied, but not if you copy the text of a comment.
Correct, I don't think that's the case. I'm not getting an error that the clipboard is locked and the clipboard still functions correctly. ex. if I edit a comment I can select text, copy, and paste it inside or outside of excel just like I can select a formula in a cell and copy/paste it. I just can't copy/paste a cell.
Jan, it looks like here clipboard is not locked by any other program. Even if external clipboard doesn't work Excel shall copy/paste within it, you only not able to copy/paste from Excel outside. Something is wrong within Excel.
However, above is only my guess, i could be wrong.
- What about the suggestion to turn off clipboard sharing in VNC viewer:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-excel/clipboard-problem-in-excel-2016/224b2a59-8a0c-4897-baba-a481dd06e085?auth=1 - Ah ok, that's not the issue then. Really strange
Mine looks basically identical to yours.
