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Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows
A family of Microsoft spreadsheet software with tools for analyzing, charting, and communicating data.
The Copy & Paste problem is a widely reported bug in Excel caused by the latest Office update (KB5002914).
Try uninstalling that update and restart your PC.
If you are unable to uninstall that update, open Command Prompt by right clicking its icon and select 'Run as Administrator', then run one of these commands, depending on the version of Office installed on your PC.
1
Office 2016
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\Oarpmany.exe" /removereleaseinpatch "{90160000-0012-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}" "{27882596-A8ED-4382-9C71-6CD2DD19F732}" "1033" "0"
2
Office 2019
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.10417.20197
3
Office 2024
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.20326.20132