Pasting into Microsoft365 document

Peter Ruane 0 Reputation points
2026-08-06T20:41:34.2633333+00:00

When copying a picture or diagram from Paint and pasting to a Microsoft365 document, the resulting image is broken into overlapping parts. This does not happen when I paste into Libre Office. This has arisen within the past few weeks.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | Other | Windows
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    2026-08-06T20:41:51.33+00:00

    Try these checks and workarounds:

    1. In Word, use Home > Paste > Paste Special and choose Picture (PNG) or Picture (JPEG) instead of a normal paste. That can avoid clipboard format issues from Paint.
    2. If the pasted object behaves like a drawing object instead of a normal picture, Word may treat it differently. Replace it with a standard image format such as .png, .jpg/.jpeg, .tiff, .bmp, or .gif.
    3. Save the image from Paint as a file first, then in Word use Insert > Pictures to insert it, instead of copy/paste.
    4. If only part of the image shows as a few lines or overlapping strips, check the paragraph where the image is placed. Right-click the paragraph, choose Paragraph, and change line spacing from Exactly to At Least.
    5. If the image moves or breaks up because of layout behavior, change wrapping to In Line with Text.
    6. Since this started only in the past few weeks, run an Online Repair of Office.

    If the issue is specifically with Save as Picture producing poor output, that was fixed in Word version 16.0.12527. A workaround is to copy the image into PowerPoint and use Save as Picture there.

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