I am using Excel 2003. Yesterday I was able to copy and paste using the mouse
buttons only. Today the menu that pops up after copying a cell does not give
the paste option. I don't know what I did to turn off that option.

Is it greyed out or doesn't it appear?

If it's greyed out, that means excel doesn't see anything to paste.

If it's gone, then maybe you can bring it back by:
hit alt-f11 (to get to the VBE where macros live)
hit ctrl-g (to see the immediate window)
type this and hit enter:
application.CommandBars("cell").Reset

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But you could be "breaking" something that a developer did. That developer may
not have wanted you to paste???



Mouse Trouble wrote:

I am using Excel 2003. Yesterday I was able to copy and paste using the mouse
buttons only. Today the menu that pops up after copying a cell does not give
the paste option. I don't know what I did to turn off that option.

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Dave Peterson

The paste is greyed out. I have used the paste function on tons of
spreadsheets in the past and everyone else in my office can change the
spreadsheet I am working on. Is there any way to get the paste option back?

"Mouse Trouble" wrote:

I am using Excel 2003. Yesterday I was able to copy and paste using the mouse
buttons only. Today the menu that pops up after copying a cell does not give
the paste option. I don't know what I did to turn off that option.

You may have an event macro that kills the clipboard.

If you open the file in safe mode:

close excel
windows start button|Run
excel /safe
file|open your workbook

does it work ok?

If yes, then it's time to see the developer. They're doing something (maybe
very nice) that breaks what you want to do. There may not be a happy medium
between your wishes and the developers.


Mouse Trouble wrote:

The paste is greyed out. I have used the paste function on tons of
spreadsheets in the past and everyone else in my office can change the
spreadsheet I am working on. Is there any way to get the paste option back?

"Mouse Trouble" wrote:

I am using Excel 2003. Yesterday I was able to copy and paste using the mouse
buttons only. Today the menu that pops up after copying a cell does not give
the paste option. I don't know what I did to turn off that option.

--

Dave Peterson