Hi,

When I try to copy and paste something from IE, Word, Notepad etc to a new Outlook 2010 email, nothing happens.

New emails are clearing out my clipboard, as when I copy I can see it appear under paste options. If I then open the new email, go back to the previous program, nothing is in the paste options anymore. If I open the new email first, then copy and paste, it works fine.

I've checked the add ins in Outlook, and can't see anything obvious. It's also not just clearing the Office clipboard, it's also happening to the Windows one as well. I checked using MS Word and Notepad.

Is there anything else I can try. I tried Googleing, but didn't come up with much. There is a similar thread on here, but no resolution and it was a different version of Office.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Go to File > Options > Add-Ins. At bottom, click Go next to COM Add-ins, and see if you have the Send to Bluetooth Add-in enabled. I do not know if this is a default add-in on my HP zbook or where it came from, but after disabling it (uncheck), the paste now works as it should! (I use a screen capture program and do Ctrl-C, and then Ctrl-V into Outlook and whenever I did this into a new message or a replied to message, the clipboard was empty. Now this works again.)

I can confirm that this works for me as well. It was a most frustrating problem that I have just had to live with over the past couple of months. I practically live in Outlook, so it's been particularly bad.

Finally, I have my clipboard back!

The suggestion above (send to bluetooth) solved it for me too on an HP laptop. FWIW, the clipboard was being cleared by just alt-tabbing to Outlook. I didn't even need to create an email.

I have been struggling (actually quite ticked off) about this very problem for at least a year now. ANDTHIS SOLUTION WORKED!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! It's Friday and now I really have something to celebrate this weekend.