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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
Mine looks basically identical to yours.
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
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-excel/clipboard-problem-in-excel-2016/224b2a59-8a0c-4897-baba-a481dd06e085?auth=1
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.
