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ctrl-c / ctrl-v does not work in excel

Anonymous
2024-02-04T12:32:15+00:00

ctrl-c / ctrl-v stopped working a few days ago and I have been asking this community for help the past two days. I have followed instructions such as checking to see if it works in other microsoft programs in "word" and it does work in other programs but still does not work in excel.

I also followed instructions from someone who told me to do both a quick repair and an online repair and then restart my computer and those did not work either.

Thanks,

Doug

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-09T13:04:50+00:00

    No offense intended, but I don't even have the specific options named in the above text:

    1. No Show Office Clipboard when Ctrl+C Pressed Twice
    2. No Cut, copy, and paste option
    3. No EditCopy
    4. etc.

    Actually, practically none of the specific named items are present in my Excel Options dialog box.

    What I did eventually discover is that the problem was the text I was trying to paste into an Excel cell.

    I had copied a line of source code from an ASP.NET web page of <script type="text/javascript"> from a Visual Studio code file and was trying to paste it into Excel. It just would not perform the "paste".

    When I then tried copying another chunk of text (but not the same text), I could paste it into an Excel cell just fine. It seems that Excel does some kind of examination of clipboard contents before it performs the paste. Weird, this is the first time since Excel has existed that I have had such a problem.

    Just wanted to let others know what I discovered.

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