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
    2014-04-09T16:18:31+00:00

    Jim,

    Thank you very much.

    I have tried, among others, reinstalling, safe mode, repair permissions, repair disk, create a new user and finally yesterday I installed the latest update 14.4.1. The problem has not been solved yet.

    Some of the symptoms:

    1. The Cut/Copy and Paste work in Word and Excel. It also works when copying and paste text from inside a text box in PowerPoint.
    2. If I Paste something from Cut or Copied from Excel or Word I can paste it in PowerPoint.  It changed the color of the object pasted (from blue to yellow).
    3. When I Cut/Copy any object (textbox, image, shape) and try to paste it, the Cut/Copy/Paste/Paste Special menu items in the Edit Menu and the pop up menu (right click of the mouse) are grayed out.
    4. I cannot Copy to Scrapbook because Copy to Scrapbook is always grayed out.

    I appreciate your kind help.

    Regards,

    Giovanni

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  2. Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
    2014-04-06T03:51:32+00:00

    Can you put items into the scrapbook? (View menu > Toolbox > Scrapbook displays the Scrapbook)

    Can you get items out of the scrapbook into your slides?

    Are items being pasted copied from PowerPoint itself or from some other application?

    Some have said that no items of any kind can be pasted. No text - no pictures - no anything. Is everything experiencing the same thing?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-02T23:47:29+00:00

    Please add me to the tiny handful list.  I am on Maverick 10.9.2 and this is a very annoying bug limiting my productivity in PowerPoint 2011.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-19T22:25:43+00:00

    I am currently running Mavericks at ver 10.9.2, but I have had the same problem at Lion and Mountain Lion versions too.  The Version of the OS X doesn't seem to have any correlation to the problem.

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