Cut/Copy and Paste Problems in PowerPoint

Great help, hansdh!

Some two years ago I endured this issue for weeks. I had to use Keynote to edit objects, since I couldn't leave Powerpoint because the whole company used it. I've finally managed to fix it, but had tried so many different solutions that I couldn't know exactly what has done the job.

Then it happened again this week. I searched the web for some time, only to find the same solutions I was sure haven't worked two years ago. Today, I had to finish a project report, and gave it another try. Found your answer, uninstalled an app called TextExpander, which uses the clipboard to expand shortcuts, and cut and paste was back in Powerpoint.

Saved me a lot of hassle, thanks!

Will try to reinstall TextExpander, since I use it quite often, and see what happens.

I've noticed a problem on my new MBP (Late 2013) running OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 that caused this copy/paste problem, and other odd behavior in Outlook.

What I discovered was that if I clicked an object in PowerPower, and quickly copied to the clipboard (in less than a second), then the object would copy fine; but if I waited > 1 second, copy would not work.

Same is true of paste; i learned to very quickly copy/paste in under a second, and the function would work.

Not sure if it's related, but I also noticed that in Outlook on Mac, my selected email message would randomly change to the top of the inbox. I would repeatedly click down the list, and in a second, it would pop back to the top.

If the mouse event is indeed jumping off to some odd place after one second, then that could also be tricking PowerPoint into losing focus on the object copy/paste, causing it to fail.

I use a USB two button Logitech mouse, in case it's relevant.

Running Office11 on a MBP late 2011. Had the same problem (command V would NOT paste) and I was able to solve it by turning off dictation. 

Thanks for all who engaged in this dialogue

PROBLEM SOLVED

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I have encountered the same problem.. that is, a weird behavior of power point text copy function. (could not copy text box- and even if i use copy command at the menu, it does not show at the clipboard). I have struggled for the whole yesterday to solve out the problem, tried every way suggested by this thread, and it did not work out. - a big frustration..

I hit upon an idea, however, that this strange behavior is relatively a new phenomenon, starting to happen around a week ago..

So, my final try was to delete all the recently installed applications - it was around 5-6 apps, but using an uninstallation software to complete remove the hints of those recently added softwares.. , and relanched the power point..

Voila!!!!

IT CAME BACK TO NORMAL,

I am nothing to do with software development etc.. and a just a normal user.. but my guess is that one or more of recently installed softwares may have disabled a function to copy text box or similar things at Power point due to a certain conflict between power point and those newly installed softwares..

Those deleted softwares were all related to improvement of mac performances, and a software to edit xml files etc etc..

Hope this may help to solve the problem

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.

Hi, is this problem resolved ? I have a MacBook Pro in the office which is having exactly the same issue and can't seems to resolve it. 

Can you tell us the names of the applications you uninstalled?