We're sorry, something went wrong that might cause your powerpoint to become unstable. Please save your presentations and restart power point.

Anonymous
2018-06-09T15:36:21+00:00

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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2018-06-18T18:16:22+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-06-16T11:38:03+00:00

    Hi Timothée ESTEVA,

    Which option did you select in PowerPoint when pasting the range? Please check the screenshot below for reference.

     In addition, please provide the following information:

    1. Please provide the screenshot of Office 2016 Product Information. To get this screenshot, open Excel or PowerPoint 2016 on your system, click File>Account, capture the screenshot of all the information mentioned under Product Information. (Note: please remove any sensitive information from the screenshot such as email address or full name etc.).
    2. What is the outcome when you paste the range from Excel to PowerPoint? Please provide some related screenshots to understand the situation better.
    3. Did you make any change recently in your computer which may have resulted in this behavior?
    4. Also, provide the screenshot when you paste in an existing table.

    Thanks,

    Neha

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-06-16T09:27:50+00:00

    Hi, 

    I use office 365 pro running on windows 7

    Since one week I'm suddenly  unable to copy excel content into PPT

    This happens wether i try to copy some excel range and paste it on a blank slide, but also if i try to fill in an existing table in PPT.

    When pasting in an existing table, i can only paste as text, but all ends up in the selected cell instead of being distributed

    When I try to past a range into a blank slide, i get the following error message : "We're sorry, something went wrong that might make PowerPoint unstable. Please save your presentation and restart PowerPoint."

    One week ago things worked fine.

    I tried it in new and old files, so it really is a problem with the soft, not the files

    I kind of need this to do my job.

    I saw some silmilar post dating back to 2013, so it doesn't help much....

    Thanks !

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-15T17:40:06+00:00

    Oh my goodness, Sherryl - thank you so much for letting me know! I am running Windows 7 on this computer with 2016. I can't thank you enough for posting this. If or when there is a fix, if I could trouble you to share it with me, that would be great. 

    Thank you again - I'm an entrepreneur so I am my own IT department as well. :-) Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

    You're the best. 

    Maureen 

    Maureen, I'll let you what I hear! Have spent >3 hours with MS tech support (escalated support) so far.  They remoted in to my pc, documented the problem, nothing resolved yet.  Have trouble ticket open. Was told an office update would be rolled out within 7-10 days to fix.  HOPE SO as this effects our business productivity!

    Case still open with Microsoft.

    I tested it with both excel and ppt in safe modes - didn't resolve

    Tested it w/o internet connectivity, Norton Firewall disabled - didn't resolve 

    BTW I tested saving data in word table format, then pasted into PPT table and it worked.  Not sure if this helps you until MS issues a fix

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-14T22:20:00+00:00

    Oh my goodness, Sherryl - thank you so much for letting me know! I am running Windows 7 on this computer with 2016. I can't thank you enough for posting this. If or when there is a fix, if I could trouble you to share it with me, that would be great. 

    Thank you again - I'm an entrepreneur so I am my own IT department as well. :-) Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

    You're the best. 

    Maureen 

    Maureen, I'll let you what I hear! Have spent >3 hours with MS tech support (escalated support) so far.  They remoted in to my pc, documented the problem, nothing resolved yet.  Have trouble ticket open. Was told an office update would be rolled out within 7-10 days to fix.  HOPE SO as this effects our business productivity!

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