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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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You are a genius- thank you!!! The cntrl D worked- how simple!!! (I'm a Windows 10 user)
Can't thank you enough!!
Scrapbook doesn't work for me when I try it inside Powerpoint. The option is "grayed" out. That is the same if I am in Powerpoint and copy an object then try to use the edit pull down menu or the right click option. If I use Command/V nothing happens at all.
I can insert a new image from a file, and I can insert a new object from the Insert Toolbar, but once it is on the Powerpoint page I can't cut or copy it and paste it back onto that slide or another slide.
Thanks to everyone who has participated in this investigation. I’ve alerted Microsoft to the problem. It definitely seems to be related to PowerPoint on certain hardware.
If you are affected and have direct Microsoft support, please contact them so additional cases can be added to their case logs. If you don’t have direct support, go to the PowerPoint Help menu and choose the send Feedback option to display the feedback form. Explain the details of your hardware, os, powerpoint version and describe the problem. You might copy the URL of this thread and paste that in as a reference. Microsoft doesn’t generally reply to the feedback submissions, but if you include your contact information in your feedback at least they could contact you if they wanted to.
Hello, I have a macbook air with OS X version 10.8.5, and today I started to have the same issue.
Is there a fix for that?
I already re installed the Office 2011, and restored my HD from a backup prior from the problem and the problem remains.
Waiting for a call from MS L2 support, if they cannot fix the problem I am moving to KeyNote!