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I have been cut and pasting from EXCEL to PPT (Office 365) for months without problems until today. It won't paste, and I get the above error message. I have reserached the problem, quick repaired, long repair, and nothing works. This is a daily part of my work life - Please HELP ME fix this problem. Pasting as a picture is NOT an option.
Windows 7, OFFICE 365. Thank you. Maureen Monte
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I have been cut and pasting from EXCEL to PPT (Office 365) for months without problems until today. It won't paste, and I get the above error message. I have reserached the problem, quick repaired, long repair, and nothing works. This is a daily part of my work life - Please HELP ME fix this problem. Pasting as a picture is NOT an option.
Windows 7, OFFICE 365. Thank you. Maureen Monte
Try again, it's working for us now!!
Hi Maureen,
Thanks for your sharing and we are glad to help you.
To check whether this issue is related to Add-ins, please Start your Office in safe mode to see the outcome. If this issue doesn't happen in safe mode, please click File>Options>Add-ins>To disable Add-ins one by one to check which one caused this case.
If this issue still exists, please right-click on Powerpoint icon>More>Run As Administrator, open your file to see the outcome.
If you still can't paste your content normally, please check if your file was created by older version of Office. If so, please click File>Save as to save your file to the latest file format to check if you can paste your data normally.
Please have a try and share with me your result.
Besides, please also share with me more info as below:
Thanks,
Neo
This issue was never resolved, only found a workaround.
After creating a "test" profile, I was able to copy and paste using the 1805 version. However, once I logged into the office account, I couldn't copy and paste again. (not sure if logging in was the cause, but that seems to be aligned with profile issue?) After working with our IT department along with the Microsoft team. We ended up uninstall office and reinstalled version 1708 (Build 8431.2250). All office updates have been disabled by us to prevent this from happening again.
If your primary work involves copy and paste into powerpoint. Then I would suggest you to reinstall an older version as I have tried many different method and was not able to solve this problem. (using new file, old file, uninstall, reinstall, system restore, creating new profiles)
Good luck,
Garret
I have the same issue that only started after upgrading Office. I'm now on Version 1805. My coworker has the same problem.
Why would the profile be the issue, only after upgrading? Can we get more details on what causes this?
Just for fun, I clicked to see What's New and was surprised to see this:
I'd suggest trying a couple of steps to see if that corrects the problem for you.
The instructions to start Office in safe mode are here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-O...
The instructions to follow to do this are here:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair...