Sounds like you have two instances of Excel running with a workbook in each.

Close down one instance and open both workbooks in one instance.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:29:00 -0800, cstratton
wrote:

When I cut, then paste (to another excel spreadsheet)-it pastes as a picture.
How do I get it to paste normally so that I can manipulate the data on the
second spreadsheet?