Cannot paste cell after typing

stexupery · #1 10-12-2011, 09:55 AM

Good morning,

I'm encountering a quirk in Excel that bugs me. I select an entire cell by clicking on it once, with the intention of pasting that cell somewhere else in the spreadsheet later. However, between the copy and the paste actions, I decide to type some letters into another, empty cell. Now when I go to paste the previously selected cell, it has disappeared from my clipboard, does not have the marching ants around it anymore, and I cannot paste it!
Why does this happen? And is there anything I can do about it?

Office 2000 9.0.2720
Windows XP Pro SP3

Thanks!

Colin Legg · #2 10-12-2011, 02:39 PM

Hi,

I don't think there's anything you can do about this - it's behaviour by design. I get the same in Excel 2007.

stexupery · #3 10-13-2011, 09:25 AM

I was afraid of that being the case. Thanks for the confirmation Colin

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