Issue with Excel Copying and pasting

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Issue with Excel Copying and pasting

Marco McVey 80

Hi there,

My Excel has suddenly stopped C&P correctly. I have some text in cells, but I only want to copy and paste a specific part of that text into another cell. However, even when I double click, highlight the text that I want and press CTRL + C, it just pastes the ENTIRE cell text into the target cell when I press CTRL + V.

Very annoying and I don't know why this is happening all of a sudden.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Warm regards,

Marco

RMH 25 Reputation points

2026-03-25T16:45:52.77+00:00

This is happening at our organization through our Sharepoint Excel documents as well and is causing a lot of challenges for us. It's not a settings issue. Something changed on March 24th. Prior to that, for years we have always been able to cut and paste a single line from one cell to the next. Now it copies the entire text no matter what we do. I am working with online support but if anyone finds a solution post it here? If we click "editing" and do it in the Desktop app, it appears to still work correctly, but we often have many documents and users at once and Sharepoint is the best solution so we are a bit stuck.
M. Rice 35 Reputation points

2026-03-25T23:21:14.3733333+00:00

This is happening at our organization as well.
Syed Zilan Ahamed 10 Reputation points

2026-03-27T04:55:42.8033333+00:00

same me too using from years but all of sudden from 26th morning i'm facing this issue.
Cat 0 Reputation points

2026-03-27T09:42:17.76+00:00

It looks like when i select text inside a cell and right click it doesn't even have the option to copy text, all that is available are formatting options. This is definitely not a settings issue but a recent update by Microsoft.

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RMH 25 Reputation points

2026-03-25T16:45:52.77+00:00

This is happening at our organization through our Sharepoint Excel documents as well and is causing a lot of challenges for us. It's not a settings issue. Something changed on March 24th. Prior to that, for years we have always been able to cut and paste a single line from one cell to the next. Now it copies the entire text no matter what we do. I am working with online support but if anyone finds a solution post it here? If we click "editing" and do it in the Desktop app, it appears to still work correctly, but we often have many documents and users at once and Sharepoint is the best solution so we are a bit stuck.
M. Rice 35 Reputation points

2026-03-25T23:21:14.3733333+00:00

This is happening at our organization as well.
Syed Zilan Ahamed 10 Reputation points

2026-03-27T04:55:42.8033333+00:00

same me too using from years but all of sudden from 26th morning i'm facing this issue.
Cat 0 Reputation points

2026-03-27T09:42:17.76+00:00

It looks like when i select text inside a cell and right click it doesn't even have the option to copy text, all that is available are formatting options. This is definitely not a settings issue but a recent update by Microsoft.

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krystal Mead 0

Mine has been doing it for about 2 days now. The only thing that we have found that actually works right now is if you either go to the data tab and go get external data from text you can actually take it and upload that file that you need and it will input it into the Excel boxes. Or if you click on the line and you right click copy go to the spreadsheet that you are wanting to have it pasted in and go to the second 1,2,3 values of the paste options and that will work.

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Mark Wisniewski 0

We have been having this issue as well. Something changed in the online version of Excel past couple days. Please change it back

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Answer 3

EVGHENI MOLOGA 30

Temporary fix workaround, select the text you want to copy then CTRL+X (CUT) -> CTRL+Z (UNDO)

and then you can paste CTRL+V only selected the text.

M. Rice 35 Reputation points

2026-03-26T18:30:44.49+00:00

I actually came here to post this solution - sucks that there isn't a better fix but this is definitely the easiest workaround for now. :)
Syed Zilan Ahamed 10 Reputation points

2026-03-27T04:57:23.6866667+00:00

helpful but data may miss if we forget to do CTRL+Z

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Christian Johnson 0

I am having the same issue. I had it happen randomly a few weeks ago, it fixed itself now I'm stuck with it it's causing some major slowdowns in my workflow.

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Answer 5

Arlene D 36,225 Independent Advisor

You're welcome, glad it helped.

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