Cut/Copy and Paste Problems in PowerPoint

Anonymous
2013-09-30T02:03:09+00:00

PowerPoint will not allow me to paste anything into a slide.  I have tried text into a text box, shapes, entire slides.  It allows me to copy or cut, but when I try to paste it is greyed out or does nothing when I use Command+V on my MacBook Pro.  I am running Office 2011 Home & Student and copy and paste work fine in Word and Xcel.  I have tried to reinstall the software and that didn.t help either... Any ideas?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-05-10T15:40:20+00:00

    Hi Eric,

    Run Apple's Disk Utility.app program, which is located in your /Applications/Utility folder. Use it to Repair Permissions on your Primary Drive, which is usually Macintosh HD.

    Then power down your system completely and restart. Test if this clears up the problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-05-08T23:23:33+00:00

    I too experience this issue on MBA 2013, OSX 10.9.2, powerpoint 14.4.1

    • in PowerPoint copy and paste as seemingly disabled for Shapes (a rectangle for instance)
    • text or picture copy and pastes seem to be OK
    • a copy of a Shape from Word can be pasted in PowerPoint
    • drag copy doesn't work either

    This is a new problem for me. I don't know of anything that I have changed, though there was an Office update recently.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-02T01:55:23+00:00

    I just did the safe-mode startup, but didn't work for me. I continue to have the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-05-01T22:07:55+00:00

    I just did the safe-mode startup, opened Power Point and tried a copy/paste, it worked fine. Boot up the laptop in the normal mode and it still works, I don't know if this is a permanent or temporal fix, but at least it's progress.

    Try it and see if it helps.

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