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As far as not being able to copy and paste, make sure your PowerPoint is registered (not in trial mode). One thing you can try is opening up their project, then save it to your computer as a later version (Save Type As: PowerPoint Presentation).
- Update: Problem is it won't let me save it. Every single option on microsoft powerpoint doesn't work. What I don't understand is that I have both '03 and '07. And this is the first time it has opened with '07.
- Was years ago when I used excel but I found when I chose Cut, it looks a bit like a copy, but when you then do paste, the cell you clicked cut on becomes clear, so it does cut, but you only see it when you paste afterwards.
- Cannot Copy and Paste into Powerpoint - posted in Mainly Macintosh: Hi, I was trying to copy and paste a portion of bible text from Accordance into Powerpoint but was unable to. I had to paste first into Word, then copy and paste from Word to Powerpoint. Platforms: Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, Android; Posted 28 May 2010 - 07:35 AM.
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I am having a problem with cut & paste, and copy & paste. I lose the formatting when I paste. Also, the cut does not cut but just works as 'copy'. And when I select the cell and do cut or copy, it does not highlight the cell. And paste special only has a couple of selections, that is, Unicode, etc.
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Laila 02.04.12 - I can add some info to the problem: I've been trying to solve for weeks. I use Office 2007 and the software is fully updated. I have no macros on any excel sheets on my computer that could cause this. We have tried to reset the software with no luck. We have tried to re-install microsoft office where we also removed several regestry files, but with no luck. https://cleveroff225.weebly.com/search-for-words-in-text-on-mac.html. The problem appears also when you work with one single sheet. Paste special does not work at all.
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It sounds to me like you're trying to cut/copy and paste between two different instances of Excel (ie, you've opened Excel multiple times rather than opening new workbooks within the program).
You can only preserve formatting and have all the Paste Special options available when you're working between two workbooks in the same Excel instance.
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02.04.2012 LM -Try removing the software Skype Click-to-Call. I've read that it causes problems for excel 2007 and 2010. I did this on my computer and it instantly worked after.
2012-04-03, smitil: I had the same experience, i.e. when trying to Cut in Excel it worked like Copy (did not delete the initial data). I confirm that I removed the Skype Click-to-Call and instantly fixed the problem.
01-04-2013 - Jim: I'm on Mac OS 10.8.3 and had the same issue. Uninstalled Skype and my keyboard shortcuts to copy, cut and paste came right back.
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I hardly ever want to paste with formatting when copying into Word 2016 or Excel 2016 (seriously, who wants fonts when copying into a spreadsheet?). Is there a way to set the default paste to paste text only when I hit Cmd+V?
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In a roundabout fashion yes, mostly..
Bending Text In Power Point
In MS Office their version of 'Paste as plain text' is called 'Paste and Match Style and uses the macOS system defaults (OptionCommandShiftV) for paste as plain text for that function.
Now if you don't want to have to do that four finger salute just to paste (essentially) plain text, you can change the menu shortcuts in any application via the Keyboard Preference pane.
- Click on System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
- Click the + button and from the Application menu select (for example) Microsoft Word.
- Enter the menu title that you want to change. noting that the menu that you want to assign or reassign it's keyboard shortcut much match exactly what the menu says down to the capitalization.
- Click in the Keyboard Shortcut field and tap the keyboard shortcut you want to assign to that menu option, then click Add
- Repeat for any other keyboard shortcuts you want to add/change in any other applications you want to change them for.
In this example I reassigned 'Paste' to OptionCommandShiftV. And 'Paste and match Formatting' to CommandV.
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I didn't do this for all applications as I don't want to chance messing up the behavior of other applications that you can copy/paste with.
NOTE that this is not really 'paste plain text' but will give you at least some of that functionality with very little pain.
To really get paste plain text in an MS Office application you would likely need something that could capture a regular paste command and then select the plain text icon from the formatting menu that pops up at the insertion point after you paste. There may be a macro program out there that can do that but I am unaware of any specific ones with that functionality.
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Steve Chambers solution works for Word, but not for Excel, because there simply is no 'Paste and Match Formatting' command in Excel. Only Paste or Paste Special. Thus for Excel, I believe the answer is no, unfortunately. But I'd love to proven otherwise.
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Here is the definite solution for all versions:
- Select a cell and copy it.
- Go to Tools > Macros > record new macro.
- Specify a shortcut, for example option+command+b
- Click enter
- focus on any empty cell and click control+v, then select 'paste and style formatting' in the options.
- Go to Tools > Macros > Stop Macro.
- Next, download and install BetterTouchTool.
- Go to Preferences > keyboard.
- Add new shortcut. Enter command+v in the shortcut field and enter option+command+b in the triggered shortcut field.
- Done.
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How To Animate Text In Power Point
I used the above answer as a reference and added my own solution:
Macro1: Copy some formatted text.
Let the document cursor stay somewhere in the document.
Go to Tools > Macros > record new macro.
Specify a shortcut with option+command+shift+b (finish macro creation)
Press cmd+v
Select destination formatting
Go to Tools > Macros > Stop Macro.
Let the document cursor stay somewhere in the document.
Go to Tools > Macros > record new macro.
Specify a shortcut with option+command+shift+b (finish macro creation)
Press cmd+v
Select destination formatting
Go to Tools > Macros > Stop Macro.
Macro2:
Go to Tools > Macros > record new macro
Specify a shortcut with cmd+v (override the normal paste)
This time you press option+command+shift+b
Go to Tools > Macros > Stop Macro
Done.
Go to Tools > Macros > record new macro
Specify a shortcut with cmd+v (override the normal paste)
This time you press option+command+shift+b
Go to Tools > Macros > Stop Macro
Done.
Now each time you press cmd+v you will call a macro which calls another macro and your text will be formatted correctly. (This is a solution tested in word)
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For some versions of Word, I have v16.16.7 (whatever edition that is), I was able to use a version of the
Tools > Customize Keyboard
solution. Once there, select Edit
on the left and PasteTextOnly
on the right. Then, add whatever keyboard shortcut you want, e.g., command+V
. I have not extensively road tested this but it seems to work. No idea if this can be extended elsewhere in Office. Wrap Text In Power Point
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