Cut and paste does not work between excel documents
 

I am unable to cut (or copy) a range of cells and paste them into another
excel document. I am only able to paste them into a worksheet in the same
document I am working in. Has anyone experienced this, or know how to correct
the problem?

Cut and paste between spreadsheets works well. Many people use it often. Tell us
what error you are getting, or what you mean by "unable to ..."

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"R Morgan" wrote in message
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I am unable to cut (or copy) a range of cells and paste them into another
excel document. I am only able to paste them into a worksheet in the same
document I am working in. Has anyone experienced this, or know how to correct
the problem?

Oh I know it usually works, I am an accountant and use it all the time. That
is why it is particularly frustrating to me now that I cannot use it. This
isn't a "how do I cut and paste?" question, it is a "my excel is not
functioning properly, does anyone know why?" question. Basically what is
happening is that I will copy a cell or range of cells, then when I switch
over to a different spreadsheet to paste it, it is as if it has never been
copied. If I click edit paste the paste is grayed out, or if I do a control
v, which is what I usually do to paste, it does not paste anything. I have
tried it on my co-workers computers and it works on theirs. This just seems
to be a strange problem I am having.

Sometimes, macros can destroy the clipboard.

Any chance you have an event macro that runs when you swap workbooks
(workbook_activate could be it).

You can test it by starting excel in Safe mode (no macros will run).

Close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe

Then file|Open both workbooks and see what happens.

R Morgan wrote:

Oh I know it usually works, I am an accountant and use it all the time. That
is why it is particularly frustrating to me now that I cannot use it. This
isn't a "how do I cut and paste?" question, it is a "my excel is not
functioning properly, does anyone know why?" question. Basically what is
happening is that I will copy a cell or range of cells, then when I switch
over to a different spreadsheet to paste it, it is as if it has never been
copied. If I click edit paste the paste is grayed out, or if I do a control
v, which is what I usually do to paste, it does not paste anything. I have
tried it on my co-workers computers and it works on theirs. This just seems
to be a strange problem I am having.

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Dave Peterson