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Drag and Drop not working Office 365 - Word
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Anonymous
Several community discussions on this topic, but I can't find a good answer! Microsoft, does Word 365 support drag and drop? If so, how do I fix my system?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
2018-03-01T13:25:33+00:00 I am having the same problem with multiple people in my pilot test group. A majority of firm is on Office 2010 Pro Plus and they are not having any issues. It is only random users in my Office 365 Pilot Test Group. I did notice that it do not just happening in Word, but I have seen it where I try to drag a file in Windows Explorer and I am not able to.
My systems are all Windows 7 x 64 OS. I do not have any Windows 10 in my environment.
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Stefan Blom 353.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2018-02-08T19:33:53+00:00 If a modeless dialog box, such as the Find and Replace dialog, is open, drag & drop is not supported.
In your case, it seems that the option wasn't correctly Written to the registry key, though.
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Anonymous
2017-07-14T10:44:07+00:00 Installing all Microsoft updates and "restart," solved my drag text issue on Word 2016 (which was not previously resolved even though that the "allow drag and drop" option in the Option -> Advance -> editing option was checked).
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Anonymous
2016-08-08T20:32:16+00:00 that's what worked for me and I've been happy ever since. Just install the 64bit version.