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I am operating Office 365 email on Windows 10.
When I compose an email, the program will allow me to right click and copy words. But it will not allow me to right click and paste words. It gives me only the option to paste an emoji.
I also cannot find the paste icon at the top of Microsoft 365 to use that function.
I tried to upload a screenshot but it won't go through.
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
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The "problem" is that microsoft with one of their updates has reset thius ability to "OFF".......
Go to trhe 3 lines and find settings and in there is the option to copy and paste,.... turn on the option....
Where are the 3 lines? And on what page are they?
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Someone in this thread posted a good solution for Firefox users: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/paste-function-no-longer-works-in-outlook-email/b7754e8e-6738-4b7e-a199-cd229d6f17ab?page=12
Summary:
Type about:config in Firefox address bar. Press enter key and accept the risk.
Search for clipboard and change the following 3 settings to True
Refresh your outlook mailbox. You should now be able to paste.
John,
I checked on Firefox and I believe you're correct, I cannot find any settings to prevent using the clipboard, so I'm not sure what the issue could be there.
MacPheDJ,
The lock icon is just to the left of the "https://" in the browser in Edge. My coworker had the option to copy and even had the option to paste on the right-click menu, but when pasting, nothing would happen. I replied to Risdon & Risdon because their issue sounded similar to the one we were having, not necessarily all the issues for everyone on this thread. I apologize for upsetting you, I was only trying to help others with the solution I found. If the paste option is not showing up, that sounds like a different issue that I cannot help with. I don't work for Microsoft, I'm just a user trying to help where I can.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not upset. That happened months ago when I first encountered this problem. More like irritated by it. I'm fairly sure that the issue is with the embedded apps in the page and not a browser setting. I believe this on 2 parts. One, I use Hotmail, which is now Outlook.Live (paste works fine). Basically a lesser version of Outlook.Office365. Not as many extras. And 2, because I can still CTRL+v and paste that way. If clipboard was being blocked, I would think that any way to use it would be prevented and not just the right click also, copying works without problems. The only paste problem I have on any computer (this problem happens on any computer I've tried) is only on Outlook 365. I'm just guessing here, but maybe they think by doing this people will install Outlook on their devices.
John,
I checked on Firefox and I believe you're correct, I cannot find any settings to prevent using the clipboard, so I'm not sure what the issue could be there.
MacPheDJ,
The lock icon is just to the left of the "https://" in the browser in Edge. My coworker had the option to copy and even had the option to paste on the right-click menu, but when pasting, nothing would happen. I replied to Risdon & Risdon because their issue sounded similar to the one we were having, not necessarily all the issues for everyone on this thread. I apologize for upsetting you, I was only trying to help others with the solution I found. If the paste option is not showing up, that sounds like a different issue that I cannot help with. I don't work for Microsoft, I'm just a user trying to help where I can.
seeing the same issue, Right click works for "copy" but not "paste"- extremely frustrating. Hopeful MSFT can acknowledge and resolve