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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!!
I created the account like listed here and it did not fix the problem. I tried playing with preferences and settings both in the MSOffice and the iOS settings - none of this worked to fix the problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled MSOffice, and that didn't work. I reloaded my iOS operating system and that didn't fix the problem. I upgraded my MSOffice from Student to Business and that didn't fix the problem. I went to Apple and had them do a bare metal restore of my machine and then reload the app from scratch - that didn't fix the problem.
The only thing that I have done that fixed my problem, really isn't a fix ... I bought Apple's Keynote, and now I import .ppt into Keynote when I need to cut and paste objects and then I convert back to .ppt.
There is some type of a bug in the MSOffice application and PowerPoint. I have eliminated everything else.
Hi
Did opening the file in a new user account result in the problem going away?
Sorry for not being clear, i wanted you to create a new one and test it there.
I went into Preferences from my name to my initials and it didn't help or fix the problem. Was that what you suggested - just changing the user name in preferences? Or, is the account changes in another place?