Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

Hi, Strange thing has started with Paste Special from one workbook to another
although in the same workbook the function is fine;

When I copy from one workbook, go to the other and select Paste Special the
new window pop up is strange and shows a list to select from as follows;

MS Office Excel Object
Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
Bitmap
MS Excel 8 format
Biff5
Biff4
Biff3
Biff
SYLK
WK1
DIF
XML Spreadsheet
HTML
Unicode Text
Text
CSV
Hyperlink


Any ideas much welcomed.

Regards Newbeetle
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Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

It would help if you could explain what you are trying to paste.


Thx,
JP

On Jan 31, 12:36*pm, Newbeetle
wrote:
Hi, Strange thing has started with Paste Special from one workbook to another
although in the same workbook the function is fine;

When I copy from one workbook, go to the other and select Paste Special the
new window pop up is strange and shows a list to select from as follows;

MS Office Excel Object
Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
Bitmap
MS Excel 8 format
Biff5
Biff4
Biff3
Biff
SYLK
WK1
DIF
XML Spreadsheet
HTML
Unicode Text
Text
CSV
Hyperlink

Any ideas much welcomed.

Regards Newbeetle
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Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

Make sure you have both workbook files open in the same instance of excel.

Close one workbook (and that instance of excel) and use File|open to open the
second file.

Then try it.

Newbeetle wrote:

Hi, Strange thing has started with Paste Special from one workbook to another
although in the same workbook the function is fine;

When I copy from one workbook, go to the other and select Paste Special the
new window pop up is strange and shows a list to select from as follows;

MS Office Excel Object
Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
Bitmap
MS Excel 8 format
Biff5
Biff4
Biff3
Biff
SYLK
WK1
DIF
XML Spreadsheet
HTML
Unicode Text
Text
CSV
Hyperlink

Any ideas much welcomed.

Regards Newbeetle
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Dave Peterson

Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

Thanks Dave,

Works a treat, funny I don't recall opening the sheets that way before , so
I guess memory loss is settling in as I do this monthly oh well.
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"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Make sure you have both workbook files open in the same instance of excel.

Close one workbook (and that instance of excel) and use File|open to open the
second file.

Then try it.

Newbeetle wrote:

Hi, Strange thing has started with Paste Special from one workbook to another
although in the same workbook the function is fine;

When I copy from one workbook, go to the other and select Paste Special the
new window pop up is strange and shows a list to select from as follows;

MS Office Excel Object
Picture (Enhanced Metafile)
Bitmap
MS Excel 8 format
Biff5
Biff4
Biff3
Biff
SYLK
WK1
DIF
XML Spreadsheet
HTML
Unicode Text
Text
CSV
Hyperlink

Any ideas much welcomed.

Regards Newbeetle
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Dave Peterson

Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

You may have checkmarked ToolsOptionsGenerl "Ignore other application" which
would cause you to open a distinct instance of Excel for each file opened by
double-click.

ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications"

If no joy with that................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:43:07 -0800, Newbeetle
wrote:

Thanks Dave,

Works a treat, funny I don't recall opening the sheets that way before , so
I guess memory loss is settling in as I do this monthly oh well.

Paste Special Help (Excel 2003)
 

Cheers Gord,

It always great this site for fast response, glad you guys are out there! I
tried your idea but have the same problem, but no probs at least I have a
solution and can sleep tonight.


Thanks to everyone for your help as always.


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"Gord Dibben" wrote:

You may have checkmarked ToolsOptionsGenerl "Ignore other application" which
would cause you to open a distinct instance of Excel for each file opened by
double-click.

ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications"

If no joy with that................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:43:07 -0800, Newbeetle
wrote:

Thanks Dave,

Works a treat, funny I don't recall opening the sheets that way before , so
I guess memory loss is settling in as I do this monthly oh well.