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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
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Jon Firooz
Copper Contributor

Mine looks basically identical to yours.

  • SergeiBaklan's avatar
    SergeiBaklan
    MVP
    Oct 05, 2017

    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.

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    Jon Firooz
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 05, 2017

    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.

  • JKPieterse's avatar
    JKPieterse
    Silver Contributor
    Oct 09, 2017
    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.
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    Jon Firooz
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 11, 2017

    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.