Paste function no longer works in Outlook email (web version)

Anonymous
2022-10-18T08:13:22+00:00

Hi,

I've been using copy and paste frequently in my work Outlook account for almost two years without any issues.

The other day I found I could no longer paste text into the email body. It doesn't matter where it's from, and copy works fine, just not paste.

What happened just prior to this was a window popped up saying something about allow or block pasting from clipboard, but I didn't read it properly and clicked block, and suddenly it wouldn't let me paste anything (unsurprisingly... just I'd never seen that pop-up before so it caught me off guard and I didn't know if it was genuine)

Anyway, I closed the app and reopened it and tried again. This time the pop-up appeared again and I clicked 'allow' and thought it was all fine.

It still wouldn't allow me to paste, so I closed the app again, reopened it, and it was working, which it continued to do all day.

The next day (yesterday) I opened it as usual, no pop-up, but it wouldn't let me paste. Now if I click on paste, the options box just hangs there and doesn't disappear, and it still won't let me paste.

The only thing I can think is there was an update the other day and I wonder if there's a bug in the new version.

Does anyone know how I can revert to a prior version perhaps? I really need this function for work, it's disabling without it.

Many thanks.

ETA: I've just tried using ctrl+shift+v and that allows me to paste. So this is something to do with Outlook itself I think. But I have a workaround for the time being, if that helps anyone with the same issue.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-15T21:16:04+00:00

    Thank you so much for your advise on the Firefox settings!

    After half a year of annoyance, finally the copy paste function works!!!

    You are fab!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-14T14:44:04+00:00

    An alternative to paste is to:

    on the key board press down three keys together:

    CTRL SHIFT v,

    the copied material will be pasted

    IF you want to restore the Right click on the mouse to paste feature, do the following:

    1. open "about:config" in firefox (type it in the web address line where you used to write www. etc and hit enter)
    2. accept the risk in the pop up
    3. type "clipboard" in the search line and hit enter
    4. change the following settings (as shown in the picture below) from false to true (with a double klick on false -> it will change to true)
    5. restart firefox (close the PC & open it again)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-14T02:45:55+00:00

    What a **** load of **** ****.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-13T15:43:05+00:00

    "click on the lock icon to the left of the outlook URL and turn on Clipboard in permissions- problem solved."

    just saw this here and it worked for me.

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/right-click-paste-suddenly-stopped-working-in/ee707003-f6c2-4a8d-af9b-ba82581ac62a

    For my case, clipboard permission granted but it still didn't work. I had to click the reset button below it to make it work. Microsoft needs to remove this dumb clipboard locking feature. Thanks Mark.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-13T12:47:06+00:00

    I am using hotmail on Chrome and used CHROME'S options to stop blocking the clipboard/paste option on hotmail.

    Its amazing that Outlook itself does not have anyway of doing this. Took me hours of frustrating time

    trying to remedy this as pasting is very useful in emails.

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