Thanks for your post, Stephen.

I recently encountered the same problem, wondering what happened and why I no longer had paste options, just this "Unicode text" window.

I found your post on a Google search. I too had recently installed the Skype Click to Call function.

So I uninstalled that program, restarted the computer, and the paste function worked again.

Weird....

Had the exact same problem, and by removing Skype to Call fixed my problem too. These posts saved me a ton a time.

OMTucker wrote on 04/20/2012 16:56 ET :
Had the exact same problem, and by removing Skype to Call fixed m
problem too. These posts saved me a ton a time.

tedrobert;1600726 Wrote:
Thanks for your post, Stephen.

I recently encountered the same problem, wondering what happened and wh
I no longer had paste options, just this "Unicode text" window.

I found your post on a Google search. I too had recently installed th
Skype Click to Call function.

So I uninstalled that program, restarted the computer, and the past
function worked again.

Weird...




OMTucker

Hi, i also face the same problem, removing Skype to Call fixed ? meaning i need
to uninstall the skype software?

A Huge Thanks for this tip Stephen.

I was working on an important worksheet, had a Skype call to make, and updated my skype application which was seriously out of date (well, why not?). Went back to finishing off the spreadsheet later in the day and the behaviour was truly bizarre. I messed up quite a few cells before I realized something was SERIOUSLY wrong. Spent two hours trying to make Excel behave. How can a person associate Excel problems with some totally non related application. I have worked in the IT industry for 30 years and have seen my share of crazy bugs but this one deserves a prize. The fact that Skype is a Microsoft company makes allowing such a fault in this software raise real questions about Microsoft quality control proceedures.
Anyhow for anyone seeing this bug let me clarify the fix:
1) go to Control Panel
2) Select show/delete softward choice
3) You will see two Skype applications
4) Delete the one saying Skype click to call

Problem fixed
Howie