totalnaked.blogg.se - Control v is not working

Excel needs to have information to allow it to paste keeping the formula and updating its formula for addressing changes.

Paste it somewhere else in the spreadsheet.

Those actions failed therefore the message, but nothing compromised the clipboard contents, hence the fact that you can still paste it normally into other programs.Ĭonsider this example: you have a formula producing a result.

Excel does place the copied material on the clipboard, but then interjects its own actions when you paste IN EXCEL from that clipboard material. Have you ever received the warning that something went wrong with a copy/paste action you took? And that you can still, even in the face of that failure, use the clipboard contents for pasting into other programs. That's actually one of the reasons for the Windows clipboard.) And in Excel's case at least, it was also necessary because of the particular complicated world of spreadsheet needs. (Yes, "back in the day" even programs from the same company often had little or no interoperability. Not just that, but also, perhaps, to help their ballyhoo-ed interoperability. It's fairly clear that they both had routines written to enable copying and pasting in the days before widespread use of Windows. Normally I would suggest this is due to the particular requirements of spreadsheet work in general except that Word has its own uniqueness where this subject is concerned and both of them have had such from their beginnings. Excel is the one failing to honor the Windows clipboard paradigm. Excel has ALWAYS required the "cumbersome" workaround you allude to in order to paste into a cell's contents vs.

When you copy a CELL, whole, Excel will only paste it whole, not inside a cell as part of that cell's contents. What you describe, literally, in your numbered example set of actions is how Excel has always worked. I think this is a "new" change as I started getting annoyed by copy/paste operations starting to fail not that long ago. However, if you try to cut + paste, the origin cell won't be cleared this way.

Add linefeed to the target cell with ALT-EnterĬlicking on the clipboard line copies the data as expected.

Have a cell where I want multiple lines of text.

This has started happening more recently, it seems to me that at least copying cells to in-cell-edit fails consistently. Clicking on corresponding line in clipboard pastes the data correctly. The data goes into clipboard correctly but when I hit CTRL-V, nothing happens. I have noticed lately that copy-pasting in Excel sessions seems to fail often with CTRL-V. The paste-in-cell-edit fails even if the target cell is empty. Edit This can be worked around by cutting the text from source cell in the cell-edit mode but it's a bit cumbersome.